Monthly Archives: May 2013

Green Activism: 25 Environmental Organizations and Agencies

Green Activism: 25 Environmental Organizations and Agencies

 Sierra Club The Sierra Club, founded in 1892, is one of the oldest conservation organizations in existence. (You can read more about it in the overview …

 

India: More NGOs, than schools and health centres

India: More NGOs, than schools and health centres

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/first-official-estimate-an-ngo-for-every-400-people-in-india/643302/2   Housing the largest number of active non-government, not-for-profit organisations, an estimated 3.3 million of them, India has an NGO for every 400 people. While the …

 

Children can’t think if they don’t learn facts

Children can’t think if they don’t learn facts

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9943333/Children-cant-think-if-they-dont-learn-facts.html BUT ALSO READ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9390294/Schools-Minister-rote-learning-vital-to-boost-maths-skills.html AND IN OPPOSITION http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/3540852/Learning-by-heart-is-pointless-for-Google-generation.html Author: Harry Mount The academics who criticised rote learning are wrong – it is at the heart of all knowledge   When future generations come …

 

Teams build robots that walk like humans

Teams build robots that walk like humans

Author: Elizabeth A. Thomson, News Office http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/robotoddler.html   Three independent research teams, including one from MIT, have built walking robots that mimic humans in terms of their gait, energy-efficiency …

 

Powering up Smallholder Farmers to Make Food Fair

Powering up Smallholder Farmers to Make Food Fair

From “A Fairtrade International Report – May 2013” http://www.fairtrade.net/fileadmin/user_upload/content/2009/news/2013-05-Fairtrade_Smallholder_Report_FairtradeInternational.pdf By Harriet Lamb, CEO, Fairtrade International   Imagine a world without many of the foods we increasingly take for granted every day …

 

A Dangerous Delay

A Dangerous Delay

From “A Dangerous Delay – The cost of late response to early warnings  in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa” http://www.savethechildren.org The 2011 crisis in the …

 

Paul Krugman : How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

Paul Krugman : How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

I. MISTAKING BEAUTY FOR TRUTH It’s hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field. Those successes …

 

Space Syntax: The fundamental city

Space Syntax: The fundamental city

From “Space is the Machine”, pg 262-267   Cities as things made of space In the previous chapter it was suggested that the relation between human beings and …

 

World-Systems Analysis

World-Systems Analysis

From Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press, 1976, pp. …

 

Koolhaas – The Generic city

Koolhaas – The Generic city

from: The Generic City: SMLXL by REm Koolhaas l. Introduction 1.1 Is the contemporary city like the contemporary airport- “all the same”? Is it possible to …