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POPSTree Nation To Plant 8 million Trees in Niger: You Can Adopt One! “A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.” - Theodore Roosevelt More than 90% of Niger is in a deserted zone and is the poorest country in the world: To not plant in a deserted area in Niger would be to abandon the best hope of development for the country. Tree-Nation: an online community, where members can buy their own tree and become the guardian of a tree that Tree-Nation will plant in its park in Niger. Members can play an active role in the development of the project online: contributing suggestions, sharing photos and gathering ideas in the Tree-Blog or creating their own projects. Prices range from USD 10 for an acacia to USD 75 for a baobab tree. So far, over 26,000 members have raised money to plant over 19,000 trees...with the goal of a park of 8 million trees in the shape of a giant heart, visible from space.
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POPSActing Globally, Living Locally: Nurse Visits Over 60 Countries Simin Marefat, an unstoppable nurse: For almost 10 years, wherever she went, she saw enormous need and a huge deficit of resources around the globe from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. She organized a benefit in 2006 that raised $14,000: the proceeds helped Orphans of Rwanda to build a health clinic at Gisimba Memorial Center. She visited the clinic in June 2007 to see that the children all have health cards with their pictures and vaccinations and medications. They have a nurse who provides for them. She then organized a second benefit which raised $18,000: the proceeds will cover tuition for 34 Orphans of Rwanda to go to school. Fleeing Iran, her family arrived in the United States in 1986 to Hays, Kansas. It was that odyssey, beginning with escape, displacement, discrimination and eventual acceptance, Marefat says, that taught her anything was possible.
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POPSUSA Solar Capital: Arizona to Build World's Largest Solar Plant To provide more solar capacity per customer than any utility in the United States - using molten salt to store heat and continue generating electricity for as long as six hours after the sun sets. The premium is worth it because coal and natural-gas prices are unpredictable, and emissions from those plants likely someday will be taxed for their contributions to global climate change: That makes predictable solar prices attractive. Abengoa Solar Inc., a Spanish technology company that has several smaller solar-thermal projects in Spain, North Africa and the United States, will build and run the Solana Generating Station. Its current U.S. installations use mirrors to concentrate sunlight and heat water for prisons in Arizona, Colorado and California, a military base in Texas, and one scheduled to come online this year for a California Frito-Lay chip factory.
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POPS2008: A Turning Point in the Fight Against Poverty
Bill Gates, Bono, Queen Rania, Gordon Brown, Ban Ki-Moon, Klaus Schwab, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and John Chambers issue joint statement at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. To those who are most vulnerable to climate change and those who suffer the most grinding poverty: Let 2008 be the year of the bottom billion! More than 2,500 participants from 88 countries are in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. World. Also, business leaders from 1,000 of the foremost companies from around the world and across all economic sectors attended the meeting. Since 2000, there has been some vital progress in the fight against poverty: • 3 million more children survive every year • 2 million people now receive AIDs treatment • There are 41 million more children in school • 2 million lives are saved every year by immunization • Polio, leprosy and neonatal tetanus are on the verge of elimination • African economies have been growing at 6% for the
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POPSPlanning the Future of Rwanda "A bit perversely, the genocide itself has become a sort of psychic engine for development, the glimpse of darkness that inspires the light" Capital of Rwanda: Kigali Population in 1990: 7 million Killed in the 1994 genocide: 800,000 Population today: 9.7 million Estimated population in 2030: 20 million Urban population in 1990: 5.3% Urban population in 2003: 21.8% Kigali annual growth rate: 7–9% Kigali population in informal settlements: 83% Average per-capita annual income: $280 Population with regular access to electricity: 5% Projected population with access to electricity in 2011: 10%
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