Harvard prodigy Jeffrey Sachs helped take capitalism to Russia. Now he’s tackling Africa and climate change, he tells Ed Pilkington, and ‘negativism’ is all that stands in his way.

An interesting interview with a notable person, about his renewed view towards the world and his new publication Common Wealth.

Read more at The Guardian…

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The year 2008 has been declared by the UN as the International Year of Languages, in the hope t give more publicity and raise awareness about dying-out languages and universal communication. Exactly this diversity in languages can also form huge obstacles an problems in communication, as the same United Nations shows us. The work ‘UN Year of Languages’ has been developed as a part of the book  ‘Designing universal knowledge’, begin published autumn 2008. The book will research the methods to collect all total knowlegde of the world in one place.

Take a look at this gorgeously designed site, or the makers of it…

Read more at UNESCO… or read the official press statement

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Read more at Earth Day Network…

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New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council, The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou.

See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl

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Complexity thinking and social development

By Alan Fowler. How are societies ‘developed’? For years, international aid has failed to provide a convincing answer. This article offers a potential path to improving both aid performance and development in a broader sense.

Read more at The Broker….

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