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The Dutch organization SNV has agreed to plant approximately 10,000 acres of land near the coastal Peruvian city of Piura for a biodiesel operation that will provide new jobs for Peruvians and help reduce poverty through sustainable development. According to one of Peru’s major news sources, El Comercio, “The coordinator of SNV, Jhony Heredia Paivo, [...]
In a deluge of incidents since last October, 14 people have been trampled or gored to death by rampaging elephants in the Indian state of Kerala. The usually mild-mannered, peaceful animals have likely been driven to retaliate due to polluted conditions and widespread abuse. In fact, these events merely mark the latest in a string [...]
For decades Genesee County, Michigan has been blessed with having two of the remaining ten drive in movie theaters left in Michigan. Now they are both closing, the fate of the old theaters unknown. At a time when families need good, cheap, old fashioned fun the closing of the local drive ins is a blow. [...]
Across the globe, restaurants, businesses, residents and municipalities are marking Saturday, March 28th, 2009 on their calendars. Why? At 8:30pm on that date, the lights go out. It may sound like the beginning of a horror movie (or the rolling “brownouts” we suffered a few years ago here in LA) but this time it’s on [...]
I may be biased by my happy life in South Korea, but still I think there are two things that Japan does better. Firstly, Japan excels at making foreign tourists feel like rock stars. Several years back on a school exchange trip to Hokkaido, my group and I received enough popular adoration to make us [...]
