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Archive for January 27th, 2006

Camp Sizanani

Camp Sizanani is a special place. Located near Johannesburg, South Africa, Sizanani provides children affected with HIV/AIDS a place to escape, to grow, and most importantly, to be kids. Sizanani offers campers the opportunity to swim, dance, test their creativity in Arts & Crafts, and play a variety of sports. The camp [...]

January 27th, 2006
Topic: Direct Action, Equality, Health Tags: None

Top 25 Green Energy Purchasers in the USA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has a neat list on their best partners for promoting green energy. Together the top 25 partners consumed 3.3 million megawatt-hours of green energy.
The top 25 Partners are Partners whose annual green power purchase is the largest, and whose green power purchase has been completed. Their actions are [...]

January 27th, 2006
Topic: Energy, Environment Tags: None

Bird Flu Vaccine 100% Effective

Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have created a bird flu vaccine that has a nearly 100% successful cure rate in the animals they tested it on.
The scientists took components of the deadly H5N1 virus and have essentially grown a vaccine from it. Since the vaccine is made in cells it is actually easier and [...]

January 27th, 2006
Topic: Health Tags: None