9 March 2015 – Unearthed articles from the 1960s detail how nuclear waste was buried beneath the Earth’s surface by Halliburton & Co. for decades as a means of disposing the by-products of post-World War II atomic energy production.
Fracking is already a controversial practice on its face; allowing U.S. industries to inject slurries of toxic, potentially carcinogenic compounds deep beneath the planet’s surface — as a means of “see no evil” waste disposal — already sounds ridiculous, dangerous, and stupid anyway without even going into further detail.
Alleged fracking links to the contamination of the public water supply and critical aquifers, as well as ties to earthquake upticks near drilling locations that are otherwise not prone to seismic activity have created uproar in the years since the 2005 “Cheney loophole,” which allowed the industry to circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act by exempting fracking fluids, thus fast tracking shale fracking as a source of cheap natural gas.
Now, it is apparent that the fracking industry is also privy to many secrets of the nuclear energy industry and, specifically, where the bodies are buried, err… dangerous nuclear waste is buried, rather — waste that atomic researchers have otherwise found so difficult to eliminate.
Asma Ahmad Sheikh has helped people in rural Pakistan get training and set up their own businesses. Her work as a Changemaker led to her winning in a global skills competition.
THATTA, Pakistan (ILO) – Asma Ahmad Sheikh was 17 years old when she dropped out of school. Doing housework and looking after cattle were what her parents wanted from her.
However, Ms Ahmad Sheikh wanted something more.
Two years later, she heard about a business and technical training course and begged her parents to let her take part. Empowerment through Creative Integration (ECI), the non-governmental organization that organized the training, helped her persuade her family, assuring them that she would be safe.
“My family wasn’t keen. They didn’t think women should be running businesses; that was a man’s job,” she said.
Ms Ahmad Sheikh lives in Thatta, one of the most underdeveloped districts in Pakistan, and within Thatta, her village is one of the poorest, with little education and few basic amenities such as safe drinking water and sewerage.
Meet Suzan, one of 40 young volunteers working to protect South Sudanese women and girls at a refugee settlement in northern Uganda.
Suzan searches for women and girls at risk of sexual and gender-based violence | UNHCR/Frederic Noy
By Lucy Beck*
6 March 2015 – At Nyumanzi refugee settlement in northern Uganda, where the sound of families preparing food hangs on the hazy, late-afternoon air, 18-year-old Suzan Yar Agot is making her rounds in a neighbourhood known as Block C.
Once upon a time these afternoon strolls were aimless, an attempt to stave off the boredom of refugee life. Now Suzan walks with purpose, having found a way to help her community.
Suzan is one of 40 refugee volunteers – nearly all youth – working to encourage more refugees to report and help prevent sexual and gender-based violence.
“People come to tell me their problems because they need help and they know I can help,” she says. “I inform youth to change their culture and be aware of what is bad and what is good. Forced marriage is there, and defilement of children. Our people are not educated, but now they are changing. At first they didn’t know, but I talk to them and change their minds.”
35,000km Journey to Show how Clean Tech and Pioneering Spirit can Change the World
Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard (L) and André Borschberg ® are the founders, pilots and driving force behind Solar Impulse | Source: UNEP
Abu Dhabi, 9 March 2015 – Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, today launched the first ever attempted flight around the world using only solar power.*
In the footsteps of the great aeronautical firsts, Solar Impulse intends to achieve the first round-the-world solar flight to demonstrate how existing clean technologies and a pioneering spirit can change the world.
The attempt comes following 12 years of research, tests and development. Using only solar energy and clean technology, the Swiss-born duo, who are ardent advocates for a clean future, will take turns flying the single-seater aircraft, starting from Abu Dhabi for the first of 12 flights spread over a period of five months.
“Water is precious. We need liters to survive, giga liters for food production and mega liters for energy manufacture. Without clean water, disease runs rampant. Without water, humans – and civilizations perish after three days…”
…”With desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD), the water we need to live has literally been evaporating from our hands. DLDD endangers our future, but we are the decision-makers – we can reverse this cycle.” This is how theUN Convention to Combat Decertification (UNCCD) announces the World Water Day, to be marked on 22 March 2015.
And these are some of the materials which the World Water Day* has prepared:
A day for water and water for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
South Africa, 9 March 2015 (Pressenza*) – International Mother Language Day has come and gone, but to South African language activists it was just a show, formalizing the good statute book of 11 official languages of the country, whereby some of these languages are still severely marginalized, especially indigenous languages. This might hold true across Africa.
Image by Humanist Movement | Source: Pressenza
The gap is still very wide with regard to official languages of South Africa, except English and Afrikaans which are enjoying special status in private schools and in the corporate sector.
When South African politicians, government employees and those in the corporate sector take their children to school they prefer private schools, and not government schools.
Those who take their children to government schools are the ones who are in majority indigenous people living under the breadline in townships and rural areas.
However, at least indigenous languages in government schools are still being written and spoken, this positively exposes the cultural values of these languages and their speakers since South Africa is a diverse country indeed.
Fracking is already a controversial practice on its face; allowing U.S. industries to inject slurries of toxic, potentially carcinogenic compounds deep beneath the planet’s surface — as a means of “see no evil” waste disposal — already sounds ridiculous, dangerous, and stupid anyway without even going into further detail.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 