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Where did the money go from the American Red Cross?

Remember your text message donations? It is getting spent, but slowly. Haiti Video Fred Sajous, a Haitian earthquake survivor armed with a video camera and a cause, is a man on a mission: to figure out how the American Red Cross spent the $430 million it raised for the disaster. Read more:  http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/27/1601420/spotlight-falls-on-red-cross-spending.html?story_link=email_msg#ixzz0mbJuMkrZ

Katrina and the Tsunami

This is something I wrote a few years ago.  A Haiti publication will come soon.

Drink bottled water??

Here are some videos on bottled water. Although I drank SODIS water for one year in Cambodia using recycled PET, I always drink tap water in the United States. The Story of Bottled Water "Manufactured Demand" The industries response: www.bottledwatermatters.com I find much of this blog's information from the WaterWired blog. Here is another one on youtube . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3QBZac3MSY

Free WATER NG issue

For a limited time, March 22 - April 2, you can download a free, interactive version of National Geographic's special issue 'Water: Our Thirsty World' http://www.natgeofreshwater.com/?of=500204105&bd=1

A war on water?

Is there going to be a "War fought over Water"? Are we going to run out of food to feed the world? Water Wired posted a very helpful link for those of us who worry about these questions: "Global Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?" Asit Biswas, an expert in international water resource management, has changed his mind. He no longer believes a world water crisis is a crisis of physical supply. It is, instead, a crisis of management.

Are you a climate change denier?

For anyone with any doubts about climate change. Here is what the world's scientific societies say about climate change: please click here . This was prepared by Dr. Peter Gleick . I credit WaterWired again.

UA research on happiness

http://uanews.org/node/30432 What Mehl and his team found was that, consistent with prior research, higher well-being was associated with spending less time alone and more time talking to others. Furthermore, and maybe more surprisingly, they found that higher well-being was robustly related to having less small talk and more substantive conversations. Compared with the unhappiest participants in the study, the happiest participants had roughly one-third as much small talk and twice as many substantive conversations.