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Saturday 18th February 2012
A good thing:
German scientists have developed a new way to make a key malaria drug that they say could easily quadruple production and drop the price significantly, increasing the availability of treatment for a disease that kills hundreds of thousands every year.
Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jkjlFfSgOCdA6OguT3oMqP5wPA4A?docId=2f7fded8a4b54f1cb575b96edbccf631
A bad thing:
The United States, which has only 5 percent of the world’s population, is the third-largest consumer of freshwater, after the vastly more populated China and India. Per-capita water consumption in the United States was 2,842 cubic meters a year, or 100,364 cubic feet, in comparison with 1,089 cubic meters for China and 1,071 for India.
Read more: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/tracking-how-the-world-guzzles-water/
A thing to change:
Sign up to participate in the world’s largest single campaign for the planet: Earth Hour. It starts by turning off your lights for an hour at 8:30 pm on March 31, 2012 in a collective display of commitment to a better future for the planet.
Sign up at: http://www.worldwildlife.org/sites/earthhour/index.html?btn&utm_source=engagement_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2012feb&utm_campaign=earth_hour
