Any event that involves two or more nations.
Retro/out-dated technology can still be useful! Cassette tapes seem to never go out of style in some way or another. Last week we saw how old magnetic tape reels from inside an old cassette tape can be used to make clothing, now the casing can be used to make a wallet.
Reusing old items is not only groovy, but it’s also environmentally friendly! This wallet venture looks very easy to make – give it a try.
The Aid Workers Network is “tired of re-inventing the wheel” and have decided to do something about it. AWN is a place for aid workers to share ideas, concerns, and help each other. It’s also a place to help people interested in working in the aid field.
Members can update their profile and have a blog on the site. It’s an online community for people around the world who want to save the world. The redesign got support from Oxfam and Red Cross and have helped the AWN focus their site to what aid workers need most from the site.
E Magazine is reporting that Guatemala and the United States of America have signed a landmark agreement that switches debt into forest conservation.
“Environmentalists around the globe are toasting a deal announced last week in which the U.S. government has agreed to forgive $24.4 million in debt from Guatemala to free up the money for use in forest conservation efforts there. Two leading international conservation nonprofits, the Nature Conservancy and Conservation International, were instrumental in putting the “debt-for-nature†together, and each organization also provided $1 million toward Guatemalan conservation initiatives to help sweeten the deal.”
Friday the 13th turned out to be very lucky for Michelle Braun and Dolores Hummel, both former employees of the popular Wal-Mart Inc. chain. The two workers sued the chain after they were forced to work during their break times. The jury found in favour of current and former employees in Pennsylvania to the tune of $78 million for wages lost between March of 1998 and May of 2006.
This was a blow to Wal-Mart’s already tarnished image. The chain has been accused of treating and paying employees poorly. Mike Donovan, attorney for the two workers, was thrilled with the outcome: “The message of today’s verdict to large retailers is that they can’t say one thing to their employees and do another.”
This is not the first time Wal-Mart has been in hot water, in December a Wal-Mart branch in Bentonville, Arkansas was ordered to pay $172 million to employees who were denied meal breaks.
A professor from the University of Washington has calculated what the creation of the universe would’ve sounded like. The big bang was really just a humming sound. You can listen to it and you can find out more information from those good folks over at MetaFilter.