November 23, 2010
Thursday is Thanksgiving in the U.S. With Christmas Day and New Years it is one of only three days when almost all commercial and governmental operations are closed. I especially like Thanksgiving because it is secular and everyone celebrates it. Thanksgiving has a history and all kinds of discussion about its origins, but it is |
November 4, 2010
In June I wrote about some of the scale-up work I was doing with the Helping Babies Breathe. In August I wrote about a collaboration with Amy Sample Ward of NetSquared to launch a GlobalScale wiki and to shepherd the creation of a community of practice on this topic area.
The Helping Babies Breathe program …
READ MORE »October 15, 2010
Today is the annual Blog Action Day, this year focused on water. Take a few minutes with me to focus on this important issue.
In some ways I’ve had water conservation as a recurring theme for the past few decades of my life. Early on in my professional career I was the executive director of …
READ MORE »October 5, 2010
A few times recently I’ve found myself writing these words: “One of the most inspirational voices of our time” about Kumi Naidoo, Paul Farmer and Wangari Maathai. As I don’t take the use of the adjective “inspirational” lightly, it made me think about what makes me refer to someone as ‘inspirational’? We obviously all have …
READ MORE »September 27, 2010
Last week in New York world leaders, NGO representatives, and a multitude of other stakeholders and interested parties met for a review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In addition to the official MDG Summit numerous auxiliary meetings were held including the Clinton Global Initiative, Digital Media Lounge, and TedXChange. What did we learn (or …
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