By Katherine Hui on August 5, 2010 in Europe, Featured, Glasgow, North America, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photos, Portland, Scotland, USA, Wales
At Green Thing we always say that being green doesn't mean you have to live in a hole with very little provisions to reduce your impact on the earth. While this would make a difference...
Singularity University, now in the middle of its second year of classes over the course of ten weeks in Silicon Valley, held a panel on Financing the Future last night at Kicklabs in SOMA.
Singularity University...
The TechCrunch Social Currency event addressed a number of interesting topics including e-commerce/social commerce, mobile advertising, social gaming, geo-location services and online payments. In the panel on Social Commerce, moderated by TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid, we...
Cross-posted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. This is the third blog in a series about the increasing prevalence of large-scale land acquisitions, or land-grabs.
In April 2010, more than 120 farmers’ groups and non-governmental...
The Netherlands (pronounced /ˈnɛðɚləndz/; Dutch: Nederland, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑnt] ) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in North-West Europe. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy.
The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to...
The Canary Islands (pronounced /kəˈnɛəriː ˈaɪləndz/, colloquially also known as the Canaries; Spanish:Islas Canarias, pronounced [ˈizlas kaˈna.ɾjas]; are a Spanish archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union. The archipelago is located just off...
Tokelau (pronounced /ˈtoʊkəlaʊ/) is a territory of New Zealand that consists of three tropical coral atolls with a combined land area of 10 km2 and a population of approximately 1,400 in the South Pacific Ocean. The atolls lie north of...
Palau /pəˈlaʊ/ , officially the Republic of Palau (Palauan: Beluu er a Belau), is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) south of Tokyo.
Having emerged from United Nations trusteeship(administered by...
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