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YouTube took down Michael Moore’s film attacking renewable energy

The Verge

The footage depicts the Shiguai coal mine in Inner Mongolia, China, and it’s used in a montage about how solar panels and wind turbines are made. YouTube, after all, is a platform that’s been shown to profit off the spread of climate misinformation.”. The weirdly misleading nature of this thing totally explains why it’s on YouTube”.

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

We learned some pros and cons of utilizing SMS from Wildlife Conservation Society Mongolia's Rare Pride campaign for sustainable hunting practices in Eastern Steppe, Mongolia. WCS-Mongolia had not previously worked with this group, and this section of the community is often unknown and hidden. and regional offices.

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5 Expert Tips for a Successful Salesforce Migration

Saleforce Nonprofit

She previously worked at the World Bank on education policy in Eastern Europe and founded Skill for Kids — a non-profit based in Mongolia. Mia works at Salesforce.org on the product marketing team. She lives in California with her husband and two kids and is always up for home renovations, book clubs and a good cup of tea.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

I have one in Mongolia. I work at a university, and it's a private university, so we're not very for-profit, bottom line, go, go, go all the time. They just have to email me, tell me that they're interested in being an affiliated agent, and then I will respond with their instructions. About how many agents do you have? Oh, my gosh!

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Why it is hard for VCs to say ‘no’ and why that ‘no’ could be good news for an entrepreneur

The Next Web

But if our website says that Credo invests in IT, Internet, mobile or healthcare startups predominantly in Central Europe, I just don’t feel obliged to respond to a gold mine in Mongolia or Australian TV production studio. Just look at the GitHub story prior to the investment from Andreessen Horowitz.

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As Trump threatens to take over Greenland, its melting ice caps could hold a solution to our clean energy future

Fast Company Tech

Labor laws are much more strict than they would be in a Chinese rare earth mine in Mongolia, Lajeunesse said. The China-linked company is now suing the Greenland government for $11 billionpotentially spooking other would-be prospectors and the investors already worried about the profitability of mining for rare earths in the far north.

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