Enriching Cross-Cultural Experiences in Peru – Awaiting Angels
Very cool organization!
Volunteer programs in Peru include:
· Working in orphanages
. Elderly care
· Health program for medical students
· Teacher assistant
· Street Children Help Program
· Day care center
. Taking care of children with disabilities
. ELT English teaching
. Farming communities
. Making bricks and tiles
. Earthquake Recovery Program
. Conservation
Indonesian farmers: Crisis as usual
Farmers face issues including pressure on land and cheap imported goods.
In village markets on Java island, we now see potatoes and chillies imported from China at a very low price.
The lack of respect for people’s rights to land makes it extremely easy for companies to brutally evict farmers.
According to the Indonesian government’s own figures, 2.16 million farmers had to leave farming in 2011 due to a lack of land and incentives.
Rescued Meteorological Data for the Caribbean Region – Excellent Historical Resource
These data are stored in NOAA’s digital library under the heading: Data Rescue Caribbean. Many of the recorded measurements are from the first half of the 20th Century.
For other interesting historical NOAA documents, check out the following link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/
CLIMATE IMPACT EQUITY LENS (CIEL) – CLIMATE CHANGE GETS PERSONAL
Spanish Version
The Climate Impact Equity Lens (CIEL) is a new tool for comparing the net climate impacts felt by diverse individuals around the world, and for tracking individual impacts over time. CIEL demonstrates that climate change will affect each person differently.
At present, very little is being done to prevent dangerous climate change. Some people are already experiencing damages from changing temperatures and weather patterns, and from sea-level rise – but everyone is enjoying the “benefit” of not paying for more ambitious emission reductions. Looking only at today’s impacts, most – but not all – of us are net winners (saving more from inaction than we lose from climate damages). Over the course of this century, net losers will become more common; in the next century, it will be hard to find people who still benefit from inaction.
CIEL provides a graphic display of changes over time in each individual’s net economic impact from climate change. You can download several CIEL publications and a tool that allows you to input individual characteristics to estimate the personal impact of climate change.
The Climate Impact Equity Lens (CIEL) is a new tool for comparing the net climate impacts felt by diverse individuals around the world, and for tracking individual impacts over time. CIEL demonstrates that climate change will affect each person differently.
(Excerpted from CIEL website, 2011, Stockholm Environment Institute, 11 Curtis Avenue, Somerville, MA 02145, USA. Phone: 1(617) 627-3786. Email: CIEL@sei-us.org)
Two weeks ago, pragwater.com started using a free online service called ClusterMaps. We were happy to learn that pragwater.com has received visits from people all over the world, 27 countries in all. Here is the breakdown:
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