By Gerald Businge on February 23, 2012
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News Release Top scientists will tomorrow (20 February) urge governments to replace GDP as a measure of wealth, end damaging subsidies, and transform systems of governance to set humanity on a new path to a better future — or risk climate, biodiversity and poverty crises that will spawn greater problems worldwide. These are among the […]
By Gerald Businge on February 21, 2012
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The Leakey Foundation Grants: L. S. B. Leakey Foundation grants and fellowships are given to scholars and students for the study of human origins. Grants are irrespective of Nationality. Fields of interest: Africa; Anthropology/sociology; Science, research Types of support: Fellowships; Foreign applicants; Postdoctoral support; Research General Research Grants General Research Grants are awarded twice annually […]
By Gerald Businge on November 23, 2011
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News Release A book published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development paints a vivid picture of an alternative future in which food, energy and water supplies are sustainable and in the control of local communities. The book show how the linear systems that shape our world are flawed as they assume a […]