I found this video of J. K. Rowling’s 2008 commencement speech at Harvard via a Tweet from @marshallroberts. I happened to have spent most of the afternoon thinking about the violence that is corrupting humanness, causing unimaginable suffering, besides taking human lives in Congo. More »

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After a fast-track approval of the climate change bill, its enabling legislation is deadlocked at the Civil Household.  More »

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Connectivity as a driver of change and a tool to promote sustainability. More »

After approving the climate change law the Brazilian government now has yet to approve the rules that will allow its enactment.

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Wandering across the corridors formed by the long tables in the Bella Center’s Media Center, I could see that most of the journalists there were using Twitter.

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Humans are today a major factor of global warming and climate change. Humans are also victims of radical environmental changes. Both statements are true and correlated. They mark the complex interactions between humans an the environment. The issue that most directly reflects these interactions is health.

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