Like creating a miniature volcano using paper mâché and a careful mixture of white vinegar and baking soda, making a battery out of a potato is a quintessential school science experiment. Centuries after its discovery as an effective conductor of electricity, researchers from the University of Jerusalem in Israel are saying the potato battery can [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology on August 11th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, Community, energy, Environment, sustainability
While therapeutic hypothermia, a relatively new cooling therapy, is more commonly used to prevent secondary injuries when blood rushes back into the heart, New York paramedics are being trained to use the treatment for emergency cardiac arrest cases. According to city officials, the use of this treatment has been shown to increase chances of survival [...]
Filed under: Community, Healthcare, News on August 10th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, healthcare, success
A report from Public/Private Ventures, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and creating programs in low-income communities, shows the immensely positive impact of job training programs on unemployed and low-skilled workers. According to the report, these programs that are developed in collaboration with specific industries such as health care, accounting and even computer maintenance are [...]
Filed under: Community, Expertise, News, Philanthropy on August 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, charity, Community, infrastructure, jobs, opportunity, philanthropy
Envision Solar, a San Diego-based company known for its solar-powered carports, has announced a new product in line with the company’s goal to make use of solar energy in unconventional places.
This new product, the LifeVillage, is aimed towards areas needing temporary shelters. The product is a series of prefabricated structures with light-gauge steel framing [...]
Filed under: Community, Environment, News on July 30th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: charity, clean energy, Community, innovation
Citizens of Rome got the surprise of their lives when they opened the morning paper on July 18. Sprawled across the front page of the Vatican newspaper was a picture of a painting many are saying is the work of renowned baroque maestro, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
The news couldn’t have been timelier as, over the [...]
The simple act of detecting anemia plays a large part in the diagnosis for various other health problems such as malnutrition, malaria or HIV/AIDS. Yet, in impoverished parts of the world, where resources are lacking, patients have to wait for extended periods of time for expensive laboratory test results to come back from big cities. [...]
Filed under: Community, Healthcare, News on July 26th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: charity, Community, global, healthcare, innovation, research
The global market for bottled water is forecast to reach $86,421.2 million by next year. Around 200 billion bottles of water are consumed in a year creating flow of garbage with no end in sight.
To suppress the flow of garbage and the additional use of energy for purification, New York City is promoting its [...]
Filed under: Community, Environment, News on July 23rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, consumer, Environment, government
Although it has been a while since the quake in Haiti, relief efforts still continue to go strong. Even more so now as the American Red Cross announces new, expanded relief programs for devastated parts of the country. “Six months after the earthquake, Haiti is filled with signs of hope and progress as well as [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Philanthropy on July 21st, 2010 @ 7:00 am
For most people who live in an urban setting, a monsoon sounds like something to be dreaded. It becomes harder to travel, the weather is utterly inconsistent so that you have to lug around extra rain gear, and it just gets cold and depressing. But for people all over India, the early arrival of the [...]
Filed under: Community, Environment, News on July 18th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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The SEA Games (South East Asian Games) is an international multi-sport event with athletes participating from the 11 countries of Southeast Asia. Much like the Olympic Games, the SEA Games have also come to be known as a cultural event for the region. The host country gets to showcase their cultural heritage and the other [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Community, News on July 13th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.