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POPS"The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love" Can Change the World
A once in a generation opportunity to revitalize the program we all love and respect: In 1961, JFK established the Peace Corps to promote world peace & friendship. More than 195,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 139 countries. Volunteers work in the following areas: education, youth outreach, community development; business development; agriculture, environment; health, HIV/AIDS & information technology Some of the "More Peace Corps" goals: * Need more robust training programs that teach volunteers how to install water pumps, put in solar panels, & set up health posts * Need creative partnerships with other international volunteer sending programs, micro-credit groups, & NGOs * Need to follow President Obama's challenge to all Americans to serve their communities, their country & the cause of peaceful development across the Globe * Need 16,000 Americans serving in 100 countries http://www.morepeacecorps.org http://www.peacecorps.gov
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POPSNot a Cup, But a Cow...Long-Term Solutions for Sustainable Futures Families who knew only poverty will be building new homes and starting businesses....Today, millions of people who were once hungry will be nourished by milk, eggs and fresh vegetables. How? Heifer International helps people obtain a sustainable source of food and income. A Heifer project consists of 3 essential components: * Livestock and other material goods * Training and extension work * Organizational development A holistic approach is necessary in order to build sustainable communities. They have developed a set of global initiatives to meet their mission of ending world hunger and poverty and caring for the earth. It’s not temporary relief. It’s not a handout. It’s securing a future with generations of people who have hope, health and dignity. “Passing on the Gift” means recipients agree to share the offspring of gift animals with others in need, making them equal partners with Heifer in the fight to end world hunger.
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POPSYellowstone's Greatest Threat: the Loss of Habitat to Development The world's first national park is concerned about the fate of wildlife in the park: Each year their habitat is slowing disappearing. Yellowstone gets millions of visitors each year, which makes preserving the park even more challenging. Achieving a balance between the ecosystem and the visitors is what was originally intended in creating the park. Congress told the rangers, 'You will conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife in the parks, and you will manage them in such a manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for future generations'
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POPSFather of India's Green Revolution Prepares for Evergreen Revolution “In every crisis is an opportunity” Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one. In the early ‘60s, India grew 12 million tons of wheat every year. Starvation was rampant and the country imported much of its food. Swaminathan, an agricultural geneticist, developed new strains of high-yield wheat for his country and the programs that led to an India that exports food. Today, India grows some 70 million tons of wheat and has become the world's second-largest wheat producer. He says that today India has reached a plateau in production and productivity because a problem of under investment in rural infrastructure. His M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development follows a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.
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POPSWhy Not Build a Lowe's Store In The Everglades? The 18,000-square-mile "River of Grass" is not a swamp but a unique and vital ecosystem. In 2000, Florida and federal government embarked on a $10 billion, 20-year project to restore the Everglades: This project would work to fix a half-century's worth of draining, diversion and other damage that development had wreaked on one of the world's most delicate but vital eco-systems, and return it to something like its original state. But post-9/11, the Everglades fell down the priority list of the Bush Administration and Congress alike. Today the project is less than half finished, years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Last year Congress had to override President Bush's veto of a $20 billion water preservation bill that included a sorely needed $2 billion for the Everglades. Letting Lowe's build beyond the UDB could diminish the urgency of the Everglades and welcome more developers to push their way in. This is the time to step up and push back!
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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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POPSBeyond Zero-Energy: The World's 1st Positive Energy Building Generates more energy than it consumes. The building’s aggressive approach to sustainability enables it to offer the lowest energy consumption per square meter for its class. The complex will utilize sustainable materials and feature integrated wind turbines, outdoor air quality monitors. In addition to serving as the Masdar headquarters, the building will accommodate private residences and ‘early bird’ businesses starting up in the city. The Masdar development will be constructed over seven phases and is due to be completed by 2016.
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