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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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An out-of-control Chinese rocket has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere

The Verge

The 100-foot-tall, 22-metric-ton Chinese Long March 5B rocket that launched the first chunk of Beijing’s new space station last month has reentered Earth’s atmosphere near the Maldives, China’s Manned Space Engineering Office reported.

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

Fast Company Tech

This will put at risk decades of human development progress in densely populated coastal zones which are home to one in seven people in the world, says Pedro Conceio, director of the United Nations Development Programmes Human Development Report Office. East Coast, Japan, and the west coast of South America.

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

TechCrunch

Queensland’s CoralBots are now being put to work in Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the Maldives. What I like about Oceankind is that they recognize the true cost of doing technology projects and they’re prepared to support it,” said Dunbabin. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”. “But

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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

In the Maldives, for example, Six Senses Laamu reduced Styrofoam waste by establishing chicken farms to produce local eggs instead of flying them in in Styrofoam crates. Set on the ancestral lands of the Squamish Nation, the projects arent subject to Vancouvers strict land use rules.