20 May 2010: We have launched a new discussion platform for the 2010 Generation Europe Youth Summit on Green Entrepreneurship. Most of our community activities and efforts will be focused on the Summit over the coming months, so we encourage you to get involved by registering on the Summit website.
Are Water Wars soon to become a reality? How can the numerous causes of water scarcity best be addressed? Do you believe that the privatisation of water will improve the situation or only make it worse? Can our planet’s water supply maintain the current levels of population growth?
“Water scarcity ‘now bigger threat than financial crisis’”, “World heading for ‘water bankruptcy’”: if these dramatic headlines are anything to go by, humankind is facing a looming disaster. Not climate change, not another financial crash, not terrorism but water scarcity will bring us to our knees. Whereas talk of water wars and impending doom may seem exaggerated, water scarcity is at the source of many of the contemporary problems we read about every day. read more…
There are 20 places available for members of the Generation Europe Community, between the ages of 20 and 25, to attend a three-day summer school on the European Landscape Convention from 25 until 27 August 2010 in Milan, Italy. “The young and the European Landscape Convention: on the eve of the Xth anniversary of CEP” is organised by the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic. All expenses will be covered by the event organisers, except for travel to/from Milan, and participants can receive university credit. Note: interpretation will only be provided in Italian and French at the conference.
To apply: please send a motivation letter and your CV to cristina@generation-europe.eu before 10 August 2010.
By Alex Steffen, Worldchanging, 16 June 2010
And oil spills are far from the worst environmental disasters we’ve unleashed and are in the process of unleashing through the routine operation of our economy as currently designed.
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By Laura Rozen, Politico, 9 July 2010
With the spy swap orchestrated on the Vienna tarmac this morning looking like it was out of a Cold War spy flick central casting, it’s perhaps no surprise that the CIA and Russian foreign intelligence service at the heart of the rolled up network played lead roles in the swap.
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BBC News, 21 June 2010
Poland’s presidential election is heading for a second round, with no single candidate getting enough votes to win Sunday’s first round outright.
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By Jonah Goldberg, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2010
“Joe Biden”: With the exception of “broken teleprompter” these are the scariest two words in the White House communications shop.
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By Florian Paulus Meyer, Jetzt.de/Süddeutschen Zeitung, 31 May 2010
Am Sorgentelefon ‘Nightline’ helfen Studenten ihren Kommilitonen in allen Lebenslagen.
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By Chris Cameron, ReadWriteWeb, 28 May 2010
The same day on which Facebook has rolled back changes to its default privacy settings, Pew Research has released a report on privacy and reputation among young adults that has some interesting results.
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By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press via Yahoo! Finance, 23 May 2010
Six weeks of vacation a year. Retirement at 60. Thousands of euros for having a baby. A good university education for less than the cost of a laptop … Now the welfare state — cherished by many Europeans as an alternative to what they see as dog-eat-dog American capitalism — is coming under its most serious threat in decades: Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.
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By Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 21 April 2010
Éric Zemmour, slight, dark, a live wire, fell over his own words, they were tumbling out so fast.
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