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Need, Give, Good: On Philanthropy, Due Diligence, Trends & an Idea Whose Time as Come (link suite overview)

Posted on December 24, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

Giving has never been easier, nor need greater. Leveraging donations for impact, how more can be less and the promise of social enterprise “Need, Give, Good” – New suite of links on TrackerNews.net According to a new study by Network for Good and True Sense Marketing, 20% of all online giving takes place in the [...]

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Trees, Food, Pakistan & the Lessons of Medieval Monks: How Ecosystems Thinking Can (Still) Save the World

Posted on September 13, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

On deforestation, floods, global commodity markets and food empires; The lessons of medieval monks; Urbanization and ecosystems thinking; Saved by a worm? Of all the horrifying stories to come out of Pakistan in this long waterlogged summer of raging floods, perhaps the most tragic is why the disaster become a full-blown, future-blighting catastrophe: Deforestation had [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, Diaster relief, drought, energy, famine, floods, food, forests, oil, rain forests, reforestation, soil health, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, water, water pollution | Tagged: Al Jazeera, Andrew Rimas, aquaponics, charter cities, Chris Anderson, Cistercians, city farms, deforestation, disaster response, Empires of Food, erosion, Evan Fraser, famine, floods, food prices, Growing Power, illegal logging, ISDR, Jacqueline Novogratz, medieval monks, megacities, Norman Borlaug, oil, Pakistan, Paul Romer, Russian drought, slums, Sweet Water Organics, timber mafia, Ug99, urban agriculture, urbanization, wheat, wheat rust, Will Allen | 2 Comments »

Rebuilding Haiti: On Trees, Charcoal, Compost and Why Low Tech, Low Cost Answers Could Make the Biggest Difference (& How High-Tech Can Help)

Posted on February 10, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

On the link between environmental health & public health; Rebuilding Haiti from the soil microbes up; A humanitarian aid petri dish; Jared Diamond’s checklist for collapse & Haiti as vision what could be in store for the rest of us; Charcoal cartels, Amy Smith’s better answer & Nicholas Kristof’s compost toilet tour Five [...]

Filed under: agriculture, charcoal, Diaster relief, earthquake, forests, Haiti, innovation, reforestation, soil health | Tagged: "Haiti Timber Re-Introduction Project", "Hopital Albert Schweitzer", charcoal, compost toilets, Crisis Commons, CrisisMappers, deforestation, Haiti, Haiti Rewired, HTRIP, Jared Diamond, reforestation, SOIL, urban farming, Will Allen | 3 Comments »

“TrackerNews: Haiti” – A Special Resources Page

Posted on January 26, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

A special TrackerNews page with news, info and resources relevant to Haitian relief and reconstruction; A prototype “sketch” for a personal aggregation tool; Hi-tech meets What-tech?; Haiti’s legacy At TrackerNews, we tell stories by collecting and connecting links. Unlike most aggregators that are driven by by dateline or popularity, we are interested in context, mixing [...]

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