Analyses the poverty reduction effectiveness of certain aspects of the European Union’s (EU) development policy and suggests ways in which to enhance its effectiveness. This book focuses on three aspects of EU development policy: trade, agriculture and food security, and modes of policy-making and implementation.
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In his new book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, Dean Gus Speth asserts that today’s environmental reality is linked powerfully with growing social inequality and the neglect and erosion of democratic governance and popular control. Speth examines how these seemingly separate areas of public concern are intertwined and calls upon citizens to mobilize spiritual and political resources for change.
Beautiful Kauai Starred in Four Major Movies in 2011
Lihue, Kauai (PRWEB) December 22, 2011
With the recent release of The Descendants, starring George Clooney, in theaters nationwide, the beautiful Garden Island of Kauai has now had a starring role in four major movies in 2011.
Earlier this year, Kauai’s sunny weather, spectacular natural beauty, and pristine beaches were also prominently featured in the summer blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp, Just Go With It, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, and Soul Surfer, the inspiring story of surfer Bethany Hamilton.
“We’re truly honored the producers of these four movies found Kauai’s abundant tropical beauty and scenic vistas to be essential in telling their stories,” said Sue Kanoho, executive director of the Kauai Visitors Bureau. “Movie fans are seeing again and again why a visit to Kauai is such an enjoyable and rejuvenating experience.”
As with the other three movies filmed on Kauai this year, The Descendants is expected to be released in theaters internationally, shown on pay-per-view TV, and released on DVD and Blu-ray, furthering the exposure of Kauai’s allure to audiences worldwide.
Kauai is a veteran “performer” for Hollywood having served as a location site for more than 60 major movies and TV shows, including favorites like South Pacific; Blue Hawaii; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Jurassic Park; The Thorn Birds; Six Days, Seven Nights; Tropic Thunder; and Avatar.
“Film production crews always enjoy working on Kauai and we love having them come to our island home for location shoots,” said Kanoho. “Our people are great about making the crews feel welcome, respecting their privacy, and letting Kauai be a wonderful experience while they are working away from home.”
Kauai’s nickname as the Garden Island helps explain its appeal to filmmakers – and travelers. The island is green and flourishing with lush flora running from its mountains to the sea, yet Kauai also offers more than 50 miles of white-sand beaches – more beach per mile than any other island in Hawaii.
Kauai offers visitors one natural wonder after another to admire. Two of the most well known are the Napali Coast, with its towering cliffs overlooking the northwest shoreline, and majestic Waimea Canyon, known as “The Grand Canyon of the Pacific.”
For more information about Kauai – Hawaii’s Island of Discovery – please visit http://www.kauaidiscovery.com or call the Kauai Visitors Bureau toll-free at (800) 262-1400. Follow Kauai via Twitter (@kauaidiscovery) and as a fan on Facebook (Kauai Visitors Bureau).
The Kauai Visitors Bureau is a division of the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, which is contracted by the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA), the State of Hawaii’s tourism agency, for marketing management services in North America. The HTA was established in 1998 to ensure a successful visitor industry well into the future. Its mission is to strategically manage Hawaii tourism in a sustainable manner consistent with the state of Hawaii’s economic goals, cultural values, preservation of natural resources, community desires, and visitor industry needs.
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Green Lifestyle Site, Eco18.com, Lists Top 10 Favorite Green Smartphone Apps
New York, NY (PRWEB) January 20, 2012
It is estimated that one in every two Americans owns a smartphone, according to Nielsen Media. Those with iPhones, Blackberrys or Androids have access to smartphone applications, or apps, at their fingertips which to help make their lives easier when on the go. Green lifestyle site, eco18.com, has recently released its list of favorite green smartphone apps to help people live a more eco-friendly lifestyle.
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What’s Fresh – This great one geolocates you and let’s you know what’s in season. That way, you can be sure to eat Buy Fresh, Buy Local.
GoodGuide – With a builtin barcode scanner, this one lets you instantly look up the sustainability of a product and the company’s environmental awareness and contribution (be it good or bad).
GreenCharging – We are all guilty of leaving electrical devices plugged in when not in use, which uses a considerable amount of unnecessary energy. This app alerts you when your phone is fully charged, in turn saving you energy.
GreenGenie – Our pick of the plethora of apps out there offering green tips. Well, until eco18 launches an app, that is!
Carticipate – The best carpooling app we have seen.
greenMeter – Speaking of cars, greenMeter does a great job of tracking you AND your car’s driving performance and suggests any appropriate changes in driving habits.
To read the full article, and others on green living and sustainability, go to eco18.com
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Speaking at the same event in New Hampshire as Rick Santorum, John Huntsman, and others, Robert Steele outperformed Santorum (who was booed off the stage) and John Huntsman (who spoke this morning to a tiny crowd). This short video provides the specifics that were briefed in Concord NH. CNN filmed the whole thing but CNN Atlanta refused to break away from its pre-planned story line. Learn more at bigbatusa.org
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Wellington Retreat Opens Physician-Directed Adolescent Program
West Palm Beach, Florida (PRWEB) January 25, 2012
Wellington Retreat, an addiction and psychiatric treatment facility, has opened an Adolescent and Family Program in consultation with Nathan Fears & Associates, a leader in adolescent treatment programs with over 25 years experience.
At Wellington Retreat, each patient’s care is personally directed by leading neuropsychiatrist and addictionologist Dr. Robert A. Moran, and the Adolescent and Family Program adds to the facility’s uniqueness, as it is one of the few physician-directed programs in the state of Florida, as well as the entire country.
The Adolescent and Family Program serves adolescents aged 13 to 18, in a gender-specific, inpatient environment, where they develop the skills and tools they need to make healthy and appropriate life decisions. Wellington coaches adolescents to reach a complete understanding of themselves and the important role they play within society, and more specifically, their family. “It is experiential in its clinical approach, with a tremendous focus on living skills, decision-making skills, and family recovery,” said Adolescent Consultant and Certified Senior Addiction Counselor Nathan Fears.
Wellington Retreat understands that the needs of adolescents differ from those of adults, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. A comprehensive biopsychosocial evaluation is completed to determine diagnosis and treatment plans which are then implemented in a safe, structured, and nurturing environment, with comfortable, gender-specific housing available. “The program utilizes only evidence-based interventions as supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and the National Institute of Mental Health”, states Dr. Robert Moran, Medical Director and CEO of Wellington Retreat.
Treatment is based upon empirically-supported therapies, which are tailored to the individual adolescent’s specific needs. With a family component and intensive one-to-one therapy, along with two years of aftercare and follow-up, Wellington’s Adolescent and Family Program aim for individual success.
For more information regarding Wellington Retreat and the Adolescent and Family Program, please visit our website at http://wellingtonretreat.com.
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Former MTV Host Kevin Seal presents this fascinating and fun look at the most important environmental issues of our time. Based on Chelsea House Publishers highly acclaimed series of books, these programs make science enjoyable by showing actual environmental projects, vivid nature footage, plus interviews with leading experts in each field. Colorful and imaginative graphics illustrate otherwise hard-to-grasp environmental phenomena. Expert researchers on the cutting edge of environmental issues tour modern research stations and plants. Young students conduct fascinating field experiments and participate in environmental projects.
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New Insights into Tempête, Seaweed and Golgi Apparatus Published at EurekaMag.com
Mannheim, Germany (PRWEB) December 20, 2011
The Science Magazine EurekaMag.com publishes articles in all areas of biological science including biology, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, geography, environment and health. Drawing from this pool of scientific disciplines, it publishes articles, reviews and insights on biological topics including those which have recently become popular. Most of these reviews are included in the EurekaMag GeoScience Keyword Category and in the EurekaMag GeoScience Keyphrase Category of the online science magazine.
The EurekaMag.com insight into Tempête Joachim covers severe cyclones associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure tracking across the North Atlantic towards northwestern Europe and usually during the winter months. The insight provides research results which indicate that such severe weather events influence both spatial and temporal patterns of forests and insect communities in landscapes. There have been more studies and reports on the responses of forest insects to wind storms, and on economically important subcortical insects than on gall-forming, foliage-feeding, fungal-feeding, litter-dwelling, pollinating, parasitizing, predaceous, root-feeding, and sap-feeding insects. Weather events positively affect populations of subcortical insect species, and impact their colonization patterns and dynamics. Populations of such important subcortical species usually increase dramatically following such weather events and in some cases, forest insects may use storms to migrate to new habitats.
Eurekamag.com presents an insight into Seaweed which is term for macroscopic, multicellular, benthic marine algae used as food, medicine, fertilizer and for industrial purposes. Seaweed belongs to one or several multicellular algae including red algae, green algae, and brown algae. Seaweed is a common food particularly in East Asia. As a medicine seaweed may have curative properties for tuberculosis, arthritis, colds and influenza, worm infestations and even tumors. Seaweed is also used as a fertilizer which stimulates germination and growth of crops due to its content of all major and minor plant nutrients, trace elements, auxins, and at least two gibberellins. The EurekaMag.com insight presents another agricultural application: seaweeds were tested for nematicidal activity against the larvae of Meloidogyne javanica root knot nematode. Stoechospermum polypodioides was the most active seaweed as it caused 80% mortality of the nematode larvae after 72 h exposure to its extract. Jolyna laminarioides was found to be least active in its nematicidal activity since it caused only 21% mortality after the exposure of 48 as well as 72 h of its extract. Another source deals with the state of the Indian seaweed resources. The authors attempted to provide information on industrial utilization of seaweeds and cultivation of economically important seaweeds in India, socio-economic profile of seaweed collectors, future possible utilization strategies to be adopted for conservation of germplasm and introduction of legislation policies for their controlled harvesting and sustainable utilization. The authors, however, conclude that compared with the world, estimates for India do not suggest the existence of rich seaweed resources.
The EurekaMag.com insight into Golgi Apparatus covers this organelle found in most eukaryotic cells. It processes and packages proteins inside of the cell and is particularly important in the processing of proteins for secretion. The insight covers the pattern of Golgi apparatus secretion. This process varies with the cell cycle. Large numbers of secretory vesicles are incorporated into the cell plate. Secretory vesicles from the Golgi apparatus are incorporated primarily in walls undergoing expansion. Secretory vesicles are smaller during mitosis and the first part of cytokineses than they are during interphase. Peroxidase exists in all regions of the Golgi apparatus, the rough endoplasmic reticulum and the perinuclear cisternae of the early cells. Other scientific results demonstrate that complementation results from the presence of the human enzyme in the plant Golgi apparatus, where it is functionally integrated into the biosynthetic machinery of the plant cell.
The Science Magazine EurekaMag.com was launched in November 1998 as the online version of the French science magazine “Eurêka – Le magazine des sciences” published since 1995. During the past decade, it has emerged as a comprehensive aggregator of information on biology, on the applied life sciences agriculture, horticulture and forestry, on the earth sciences, on the environmental sciences, and on the health sciences.
The Science Magazine has recently been accredited by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology with the Internet Content Provider (ICP) Number 10204677. The site delivers its content through a number of RSS feeds including a “Most Shared Content” RSS Feed and an @EurekaMag Twitter account. The @EurekaMag Twitter account currently features 45,850 tweets and 858 followers. The Global Alexa Traffic Rank of Eurekamag.com is currently 799,444. The site accepts advertisements through the Google AdWords system.
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Tsunami Multi-Channel Warning System Enters Field Testing
London, UK (PRWEB) January 17, 2012
eVigilo will integrate its Alert and Distribution Center (IADC) with the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS). IADC will receive Tsunami notifications from GDACS or from National authorities (e.g. Civil Protection) and will send automatically geo-targeted Internet and mobile alert messages across multiple channels such as : Push IP over fix and mobile networks, cell broadcast as well as TV, radio, sirens, billboards and pagers.
By using various channels to reach people at risk, the integration of the two systems will help maximize the number of people that can be directly alerted in case of a Tsunami. Thorough testing of the joint-system will be executed in Setubal (Portugal), 50km south of Lisbon, in collaboration with the local Civil Protection authorities and the local municipality, who have already developed a detailed evacuation plan in case of flooding due to a potential Tsunami.
eVigilo CEO Guy Weiss has said: “We are thrilled to become proactive members in this joint research project and happy to contribute from our knowledge. We are confident that our practical experience in designing national Tsunami alert and notification systems will contribute to this project and will serve as model for other countries.”
Through the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), the JRC will provide scenario calculations and Tsunami analyses. In the event of an incoming tsunami wave, innovative software automatically calculates the results of tsunami propagation predictions and alerts via SMS or email the international responder community. GDACS could also directly alert people at risk by activating alerting devices such as the Tsunami Alerting Device’s (TAD). Alternatively the activation of the alerting devices could be decided by the local National authorities that then in turn would dispatch an alerting message through various channels, including TV, radio and devices such the TAD with one single command.
As part of the concept, eVigilo will enable the authorities to maintain interactive communication with the population through dedicated Smartphone applications. Those applications will enable the population to respond to messages received and send “Panic Messages” to the authorities when they are in distress. The authorities will be able to geo-locate those messages on a map using eVigilo IADC and execute required rescue efforts.
About eVigilo
eVigilo designs and develops the industry’s only fully-integrated mass alert platform that can reach millions of people in just seconds, to substantially improve personal safety and save lives. Supporting communication between multiple alert channels, eVigilo line of products are both holistic and flexible alert platforms. Thus, eVigilo provides the most effective and efficient turnkey solution for mass alert systems, used by governments, homeland security agencies, municipalities and industrial organizations. For more information please visit http://www.evigilo.net
About the JRC
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission’s in-house science service.
Its mission is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception,
development, implementation and monitoring of European Union policies. The JRC serves
the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests,
whether private or national. Through its Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) the JRC develops methods and technologies in support to crisis management operations.
For further information please visit http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
About GDACS
The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), jointly developed by the JRC and the United Nations, is a web-based platform that sends an automatic email or SMS message to its users worldwide and instantly alerts them in case of disasters that require international humanitarian intervention. GDACS aims at consolidating and strengthening the network of providers and users of disaster information worldwide in order to provide reliable and accurate alerts and impact estimations after sudden-onset disasters and to improve the cooperation of international responders in the immediate aftermath of major natural, technological and environmental disasters.
For further information, please visit http://www.gdacs.org
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gradschool.marlboro.edu – Author and businessman Ron Nahser was the MBA in Managing for Sustainability featured speaker in February. He talk examined how two very different cultures (US and China) are re-thinking the purpose and goals of their economies in light of the current financial downturn and natural resource constraints.