While on a teaching and trekking expedition, Dr. Irvine-Halliday had an idea -- to light up rural homes without electricity. He invented White Light Emitting Diodes (WLED) which are powered by energy-renewable water mills, solar panels, wind and water turbines and pedal generators.... posted on Dec 12 2002, 1,217 reads

Nearly 13 million people in Southern Africa face extreme food shortages between now and April 2003. Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia are particularly affected. Donor countries need to fund a major emergency food aid operation immediately. ... posted on Dec 11 2002, 959 reads

To highlight the good work in South-East Asia, Propoor lists over 14,000 NGOs.... posted on Dec 10 2002, 980 reads

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Based on their genetic sequences, people are 99.9% the same. (Source: Bill Clinton, 2000 State of the Union speech)... posted on Dec 07 2002, 843 reads

As a child, he was deeply affected by an encounter with famine victims. Now a Nobel prize winner, he has spent a lifetime fighting poverty with analysis rather than activism. Meet Amartya Sen, known in his native India as the Mother Teresa of economics.... posted on Dec 06 2002, 1,699 reads

A fairly typical middle-class American family of five uses resources at a rate that would require 4.8 planet Earths to sustain for all of the Earth's inhabitants. (Source: EarthDay)... posted on Dec 05 2002, 992 reads

1 in 5 children in the U.S. live at or below the poverty line, according to the Census Bureau. The U.S. child poverty rate is higher than that of most other industrialized nations.... posted on Dec 04 2002, 1,164 reads

If each commuting car carried just one more person, we'd save more than 18 million gallons of gasoline and keep more than 360 million pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere... every day. Source: DHEC Office of Solid Waste Reduction & Recycling... posted on Dec 03 2002, 953 reads