Posted in information landscape, open access, scholarly communication, social justice on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has produced a great animated video, Open Access 101 (~3 minutes), explaining the scholarly information landscape and why we need open access:
And be sure to check out A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access (PDF), which explains two ways the research community provides open access, through OA [...]
Posted in enviro advocacy, social justice, sustainability on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Celebrating its 20th year, the Goldman Environmental Prize has announced the 2009 winners, selected for their grassroots activism in “protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, promoting sustainability, influencing environmental policies and striving for environmental justice. Prize winners are often women and men from isolated villages or inner cities who chose to take [...]
Posted in enviro advocacy, social justice, sustainability on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Goldman Environmental Prize recognizes and honors grassroots environmental activists:
The 2008 Goldman Prize recipients tackled some of the most pressing environmental issues of the day through grassroots efforts, helping to educate and motivate local communities to get involved in the effort to protect the natural environment around them and to stand up for their rights.
The [...]
Posted in enviro advocacy, social justice, sustainability on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Cooper’s “Mountaintop Removal Road Show” is coming to Keene this
Wednesday Night, April 16th, 7pm
At Antioch University New England’s Community Room
The Road Show is a 70-minute presentation by David Cooper, which includes a stunning 25-minute slide show about the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining on residents, communities, and the environment in the southern Appalachians. [...]
Posted in psychology, social justice on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The most recent issue (April 2008) of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice includes several articles on working with clients from myriad cultures. If you are a current student, faculty, or staff member at ANE, use our standard log in to access the articles below.
Helping Chinese Parents Understand and Support Children With Learning Disabilities, by Tews, [...]
Posted in social justice, sustainability on July 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Buying a bottle of water seems so simple, so uncomplicated. Charles Fishman’s recent article, “Message in a Bottle,” on the Fast Company website quickly puts an end to that illusion:
. . . Bottled water is often simply an indulgence, and despite the stories we tell ourselves, it is not a benign indulgence. We’re moving 1 [...]
Posted in education, social justice on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
According to Garrison Keillor in a recent column, not only is the library a “temple of freedom,” but “when politics gets mean and dumb, you can cheer yourself up by walking into a public library, one of the nobler expressions of democracy.”
We couldn’t agree more.
Posted in anything 2.0, higher ed, social justice, technology on June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
James Lang, in a Chronicle of Higher Education column, “A Brain and a Book,” takes up Marc Prenksy’s “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.”
Lang presents the premise on which Prensky’s conclusions are based:
The title pretty much says it all: Our students are digital natives who have grown up in the land of technology and know no other [...]
Posted in anything 2.0, higher ed, social justice on May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
Posted in green biz, social justice on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In 2010, Dongtan, China, a city that doesn’t yet exist, will sit 30 minutes from Shanghai’s financial district. When the city opens, 60% of its energy will be generated from renewable sources, and if all goes as planned, that figure will be 100% by 2030. And to add a little perspective to the scope of [...]
