I had an interesting chat this morning with a colleague who is trying to get wikinomics infused into the culture and operations of the United Nations and finding it tough going so far. Like many observers of the international scene, I find it frustrating to watch international organizations like the...

URL: Warming ‘affecting poor children’ Warming ‘affecting poor children’ Diseases such as malaria may spread under climate change, Unicef warns Climate change is already affecting the prospects for children in the world’s poorer countries, according to Unicef. The UN ch...

As President Barroso and Commissioner Michel launch an ambitious strategy for how Europe can help developing countries reach the UN-agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 Oxfam today warned that Europe cannot live up to its aspirations to be a global leader on tackling poverty unless fin...

Until Americans are willing to recognize why their desalination projects are 'stalled', how BigSugar undermines municipal water projects... ...or recognize how screwing Canadians & the Canadian environment IS NOT beneficial to Americans... its gonna be an uphill battle to educate Americans past the ...

While sanitation is said to be the greatest medical advance in the past 150 years, some 2.6 billion people around the world – some 40 percent of total population – lack access to basic sanitation, according to the United Nations. That’s something that the U.N. has been trying to change for the...

Lately there has some discussion in the partisan blogosphere as to whether one should give to Episcopal Relief and Development if one disagrees with one or more things going on the The Episcopal Church, or to Anglican Relief and Development if one doesn't, or if it's better to give to some other org...