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Real-Time Web Social Action Events: Blurring the Offline/Online Distinction?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Joe Solomon has a post over at Netsquared called " Social Media Powered Hope " and reports: Yesterday, the first ever hashtag made it into the center of the UN climate negotiations , #WeStandwithTuvalu (a Pacific island nation) -- an action that was coordinated by SMS inside the conference in Copenhagen.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 Fires and Disease By 2100, the number of extreme fires could increase 50% globally.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

But global issues can’t wait three years.”. Queensland’s CoralBots are now being put to work in Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the Maldives. Oceankind’s stated mission is “to improve the health of global ocean ecosystems while supporting the livelihoods of people who rely on them.” “We Casting a wide net for science.

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An Unconventional 3-Step Plan To Save the Oceans

Saleforce Nonprofit

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.

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The most innovative companies in corporate social responsibility of 2025

Fast Company Tech

But there is a supply problem, Currently, there isnt enough SAF to fuel global commercial airlines for even a week, which is why the airline is championing state and federal policies to ramp up production. SAFs economic potential is immense, with projections estimating a $25 billion market by 2030 and the creation of 14 million global jobs.