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China Gradually Improves Environmental Transparency

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

Very little is known about pollution levels throughout China, despite the country's worsening air quality and imperiled waterways. In 2006, Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun estimated that 100 cities nationwide provided no public data on water pollution. Two ...

China Gradually Improves Environmental Transparency

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

Very little is known about pollution levels throughout China, despite the country's worsening air quality and imperiled waterways. In 2006, Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun estimated that 100 cities nationwide provided no public data on water pollution. Two ...

The Rights of Future Generations

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

Some people seem to have a hard time even understanding the concept of the rights of future generations. The idea that people who do not yet exist have the right to assert their needs in our ...

The Rights of Future Generations

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

Some people seem to have a hard time even understanding the concept of the rights of future generations. The idea that people who do not yet exist have the right to assert their needs in our ...

VIDEO: A New Sound

Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

by Eric Hess Green For All (the organization started by Van Jones in 2007) has a new video out that’s worth taking two minutes to watch: (If the video doesn't work, watch it on YouTube.) Why do I like ...

Future Melbourne

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

We're big fans of open government efforts. Future Melbourne is a pretty amazing project, an attempt to harness the power of open government and collaboration to tackle the kinds of foresight and planning efforts even most big ...

Transparency Means Nothing Without Justice

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

By Cory Doctorow The footage of police action at last summer's Climate Camp – and the lack of response since – demonstrates the limits of a cyber-liberty dream An activist is arrested as others participate in a march ...

Transparency and the Financial Crisis

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

Would greater transparency have helped stave off the current financial crisis? There's more and more evidence that it might have, and more and more voices calling for a new approach moving forward. Consider this column by ally ...

Universal Jurisdiction in the 21st Century

Friday, January 16th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

Image credit: Wikipedia The 21st century could be the time when we decide upon a solution that will bring justice those who commit crimes against humanity. A growing global desire and the increasing potential capacity to punish ...

Install a Trojan for Israel? Uh, no Thanks.

Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

During the conflict between Russia and Georgia this past summer, my friend Evgeny Morozov decided to study the dynamics of “cyberwar” by becoming a partisan. He lurked on Russian-language bulletin boards and followed instructions to download ...

Happy Human Rights Day: Live and Do So Peacefully.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

On Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global definition of human rights. The document was written to promote the universal human right: to ...

Jennifer Bussell on eGovernment, corruption and governance

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

For the past decade or so, there’s been a movement to bring computers, telephones and other “information and communication technology” into developing nations to increase economic development and eliminate poverty. Those of us involved with this ...

The Complexity of Sharing Scientific Databases

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

Creative Commons is a clever use of the copyright system intended to make it easier for people who want to, to share their work with others. Jonathan Coulton has used Creative Commons to enable an army ...

Mapping electoral fraud in Zimbabwe

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

As Zimbabwe faces a pivotal presidential election on March 29, expect a great deal of conversation about whether polls were free and fair. It may be very difficult to answer that question decisively, as the Zimbabwean ...

Mapping electoral fraud in Zimbabwe

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

As Zimbabwe faces a pivotal presidential election on March 29, expect a great deal of conversation about whether polls were free and fair. It may be very difficult to answer that question decisively, as the Zimbabwean ...

Samantha Power on stopping genocide

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transparency and Human Rights | Comments Off

Samantha Power has a hell of a resume. She’s a celebrated journalist, a Pulitzer-winning author, a Harvard professor and an Obama advisor. She deserves the recognition she gets - she’s one of the smartest people in ...