Not sure what to do now that you’ve married your co-worker, had a baby and can longer run off to the bush? Get a green job.

January 19, 2009

I just came across this interview over on Treehugger.  The Guardian recently pinned down three staff at Solarcentury in the UK and asked them 1) What are your qualifications? 2) What do you like about your job and 3) What does someone have to know to get a green job?  (Honestly, I couldn’t understand half […]

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TweetNews – A Twitter-Yahoo mashup for the humanitarian blogger

January 18, 2009

WIRED’s Epicenter has a story on the new Yahoo-Twitter news mashup – TweetNews.  Yahoo BOSS engineer Vik Singh created the mashup using only one hundred lines of code.  Simplicity at it’s best.  (FYI – If you search ‘Gaza maps’ the third Tweet down in the first search result (at least right now) links back to […]

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Barack Obama + Microsoft’s Photosynth + 1,000,000 cameras = CNN’s The Moment

January 17, 2009

I just saw Wolf and Anderson remarking how “cool” CNN’s The Moment is going to be.  The Moment is the CNN’s attempt to capture the moment Barack Obama raises his hand to be sworn in as the forty-fourth President.  CNN is asking that as many first hand viewers as possible (they estimate the number at […]

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Are part-time bloggers stealing professional media’s mojo?

January 16, 2009

I just received a very interesting email from Jose Duran, the Web Editor for the Broward/Palm Beach New Times.  In it Jose mentions that Aid Worker Daily readers might be interested in the one of their feature stories and provided a link to ‘With the help of Rainn Wilson, Aaron Jackson tries to cure a […]

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‘Postcards from Kosovo’

January 15, 2009

I just came across Postcards from Kosovo and since it has a great name (like Congolese Dawn) I thought it deserved a post.  It’s a fascinating mix of language, photography, anthropology and observations by an individual named (I’m guessing) Nando Sigona who is evidently studying minorities in Kosovo.  The showpiece is his paper titled, ‘Towards […]

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‘Difficulties of Humanitarian Access in Gaza – UN Offices Attacked’

January 15, 2009

Michael Kleinman over at Change.org’s Huamnitarian Relief site has a massive update on the situation in Gaza.  Be sure to head on over and read it in full.  Michael has a great closing line that speaks for all of us former field folks I wish I had some way to sum up, some hope to […]

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‘Solvatten: The Water Container Which Harnesses the Sun to Purify Drinking Water’

January 12, 2009

Treehugger has an article on a low cost water purification system from Sweden.  Solvatten relies on UV light and solar heating to kill the bugs.  According to the site the water is rendered safe per WHO guidelines.  It has a lot of potential for uptake in the humanitarian community as a back-up water system given […]

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Mobile networks are still up and running in Gaza!

January 12, 2009

I just heard from Jacob Korenblum at Souktel, the service that partnered with Ushahidi and Al Jazeera to produce this map, and as far as they are concerned there is little if any difficulty getting through on the GSM networks in Gaza. Souktel is running several services for aid agencies in Gaza, and SMS and […]

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Project Frog won the Best Clean Tech Startup award at the 2008 Crunchies!

January 12, 2009

I just had to give a shout out to the folks over at Project Frog.  I have been working with them for a while now and I am proud to say we won the Best Clean Tech Startup award at the this year’s Crunchies.  At Project Frog we create high-performance green building systems.  Read more […]

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‘The war in Gaza escalates. Civilian and aid worker casualties on the rise. Words “Crimes against humanity” coming up. Gaza bombing’

January 11, 2009

Peter over at The Road to the Horizon has a summary of the losses suffered by aid organizations working in Gaza and the surrounding area.  From the post: On Friday night, an Israeli drone missile hit a car from the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), an international NGO. NPA stated the car was clearly marked with […]

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