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Priority of Slums around the world

I would like to emphasize on the importance of slum development. The importance of the development of Earth is very much overlooked, not until the movie Slumdog Millionaire that many people started to realize the height of such an issue. Slum which is a run down area of a city where poorest of the families [...]

Earth Overshoot Day 2008

On September 23rd this year we mark an unfortunate milestone: As of today, humanity will have consumed all the new resources the planet will produce this year, according to Global Footprint Network calculations. For the rest of 2008, we will be in the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, drawing down our resource stocks – in [...]

Scientific Community Addresses Inequality of Wealth

“Nearly 90 percent of research and development dollars are spent on creating technologies that serve the wealthiest 10 percent of the world’s population” Could this be why the gap between the global rich and poor is only getting bigger every day?How can we narrow the gap without destroying the cultures on either end of the [...]