Topic: United Nations

Can Robotic Cages Save Fish Farming?

Fish populations are dwindling rapidly due to widespread overfishing, and it's not likely to stop any time soon--the UN thinks that world seafood demand will grow 40% by 2030. And your beloved sushi restaurant might not exist for much ...READ»

Hopenhagen: Twitter-Like Site to Push World Leaders at Copenhagen Climate Change Meeting

Twitter's political usefulness has already proven itself in this month's Iran protests. The U.N. hopes to further its own political goals with a similar microblogging platform on its Hopenhagen campaign site, just launched this week ...READ»

Fortune Favors the Responsible Biz

The UN's Geneva headquarters Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Company, and the United Nations put out reports today highlighting positive links between corporate responsibility and the bottom line. The three studies were presented in ...READ»

Design Thursday: Gapminder's (and Google's) Revolutionary Design for Data

As anyone who's ever dipped into, say, the United Nations' statistical databases knows all too well, the presentation of data is in dire need of a design makeover. With its ant-sized type and near-infinite columns of bland-on-bland ...READ»

Cell Phones to the Rescue, for Iraqi Refugees

The U.N. will soon be giving out food vouchers, via SMS.READ»

I Think ICANN

Does the internet belong to America, or to the world? That is the essential question being asked by the UN. They are seeking to have the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that governs internet ...READ»

Can't We All Just Get Along?

What are all those hieroglyphs plastered on product tags?READ»

The information the CIA & US Department of State ignored that could have prevented the 9/11 terrorist attacks on NYC.

We both drove to Washington DC together to meet with Republican Senator, Tim Nicholson. Darko spent the night at his house and I in a hotel room on the Beltway. We had brought with us tons of secret information on Al Qaeda operatives with us for this visit but Darko left it all with me in my room and Senator Nicholson did not view it. Senator Nicholson took us out to breakfast early that morning and told us that "In DC, we are alla bunch of paid whores for campaign contributions." The Republika Srpska Information Agency was very generous to help America fight terrorism on many occasions. The boxes I stayed with that night had papers and photos of tons of Al Qaeda operatives.READ»

World Water Day

It's been 4,500 years since the Mesopotamian cities of Lagash and Umma battled over irrigation rights. That was the world's first -- and so far only -- full-fledged water war. But UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon warned last year ...READ»

What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

Event in NYC on Globalization and Sustainable Development

An important issue to me is the exetension of social responsibility by corporations to include their outsourcing service providers and supply chain partners. I am part of a new non-profit organization that is focused on social and ...READ»

Biofuel Subsidies: Good, Bad or Just Wrong?

Are biofuels an elitist mechanism that ultimately raises poverty and should be ended until a better solution can be conceived of? Or are rising food prices just a temporary set back, one that will be compensated for by future benefits?READ»

"The Millennium Development Goals Report[s]" little development

This morning I had the somewhat special opportunity to go to the U.N. to hear the Secretary General Kofi Annan present "The Millennium Goals Report" to the media. Little did I realize that I'd end up far more in awe of the physical ...READ»

Corporate Social Responsibility Reports Now Required By Law

Should Corporate Social Responsibility be a voluntary response to customer and societal demands? Or, if it is as important as many are suggesting, should it be a legislated requirement? On December 16, 2008, the Danish parliament ...READ»

Methane Capture? Try Tofu.

Pigs and cows are the elephants in the room at the UN global warming summit in Poland this week.READ»

• UN Climate Summit: 186 Nations Gridlocked by Global Recession

Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case

This legal technicality indicates the Hague must dismiss charges against Dr karadzic and others awaiting trials in the Hague jail; like it or not. Unfortunately for the Signatures Of the Rome Statute United Nations member states instituting the ICC & ICTY housed at the Hague, insofar as the, Radovan Karadzic, as with the other Hague cases awaiting trial there, I personally witnessed these United Nations member states openly speaking about trading judicial appointments and verdicts for financial funding when I attended the 2001 ICC Preparatory Meetings at the UN in Manhattan making the iCTY and ICC morally incapable trying Radovan Karazdic and others.READ»

How to Make Your Classroom Sizzle

Without energy and engagement, students don't want to learn, and teachers don't want to teach.READ»

Productronica

Innovative production techniques for electronics -- and the microelectronics inside those electronics -- are the focus of this 40,000-person trade show, the largest global gathering of its kind. We hope that some exhibitors will be ...READ»

To the Letter

When the World Summit on the Information Society ended, just a few weeks ago, the Internet was still governed by ICANN, an American agency. Yes, the Internet Governance Forum was announced during the summit, but that international ...READ»

Workipedia: Office Wikis and the Collaboration Revolution

Gone are the days of paper here at the offices of FastCompany.com. Virtually all in-house office communication is done electronically. E-mail is a given, as is teleconferencing. But what our office does, along with an increasing ...READ»

The New Alternative

In 2008, $140 billion was invested in wind, solar, and other renewable sources of energy. Only $110 billion was invested in coal and other fossil fuel generation. What may be more remarkable was that investors would put anything into fossil-fueled power plants, knowing they were committed to buy billions more for the fuel itself over the fifty year life of those power plants, compared to zero fuel cost for wind or solar.READ»

Dr. Brilliant Vs. the Devil of Ambition

If baby boomers had their own Faust, he'd be Larry Brilliant, a man who's found himself at the center of almost every defining moment of his generation. His biggest battle: taming the devil of ambition.READ»

The Global Climate Wake Up Call

Did anyone really expect the United Nations to have a serious, implementable plan for climate change by mid-December's convention in Copenhagen? We were skeptical after negotiations in Bali and Bonn, and apparently we're not alone. A ...READ»

Molten Bolton

You've really got to be a bad seed to not make it through a Republican-dominated leadership process when you're a loyal Republican. But it looks like John Bolton, President Bush's handpicked choice to become U.S. ambassador to the ...READ»

Creativity: The Future of Good Impressions

  The impressionist era of painting arose as a deviation from the accepted, classical techniques -- a creative explosion that spread through the power of unique perspectives. When Monet painted, he shared his personality through ...READ»