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Great video of the Rainbow Warrior. And the request from the Greenpeace UK YouTube page: She’s confronted environmental crime for 21 years. She has been shot at, rammed and impounded while defending our world. But now she’s worn out, struggling and needing constant repairs. Our planet is in trouble and a new Rainbow Warrior is [...]
This guest post comes to us from David P. Tusa, CEO and President of Sharps Compliance Corp. (Nasdaq: SMED), a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused dispensed medications generated outside the healthcare facility setting. The disposal of medical waste –- needles and syringes from home injections, or unused prescription [...]
The expanding scope of the “It Gets Better Project” has become so huge, that the leader of the United States has now contributed his own message. The White House has just released this video from President Barack Obama, showing his support and reaching out to bullied queer youth. Obama proclaimed that we have to end [...]
Yesterday, Kiva, an organization focused on alleviating poverty through microfinance, announced that it is now partnering with Visa to reach more people in more areas of the country. Visa is giving Kiva $1 million to “expand opportunities for U.S. small businesses to benefit from the power of microloans.” Also expanding Kiva’s reach, ACCIÓN Texas-Louisiana, the [...]
CBS recently dug up and released an 11-minute reel of film from days before the big earthquake of 1906. The video has been named “A Trip Down Market Street” and is shot from a Market Street cable car. The video “captures a city full of life and promise,” 60 Minutes producer David Browning writes. It [...]
