Talentnow has taken a pledge for World Environment Day that they will plant a tree for every resume or job that gets registered with us during the month of Jun 08. Each of these trees they believe would symbolize growth and well-being of all of us.Youth, and in particular young African Americans, are at an alarmingly high risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STD). The Centers for Disease Control estimates that more than 25%, or 3.2 million teenage girls in the U.S. have at least one STD, with the highest prevalence is among African American teen girls, 48% of which have at least one STD.
Where can youth go for accurate health information? With 85 percent of San Francisco's youth owning a cell phone , providing health resources and STD-prevention information via cell phone simply makes sense. Through mobile technology, health care advocates can reach youth with the technology they use most often, and for youth text messaging is confidential and easy.
SexINFO is an innovative text messaging pilot public health program that allows youth to access health information via their wireless device. By providing basic health facts along with contact information for health care clinics, SexINFO aims to decrease rates of STD transmission among at-risk urban youth. By texting "sexinfo" to 61827, youth can interface with a helpful set of answers to key questions about safer sex, HIV, STDs and pregnancy.
Launched in 2006, San Francisco's SexINFO program is the first program of its kind in the U.S. This pilot has the potential to influence the way public health advocates throughout the country connect at-risk youth to health care services.
SexINFO was designed by health educators at I.S.I.S., Inc. with funding from the San Francisco Department of Public Health's (SFDPH) STD Prevention and Control division, and programmed by Hip Cricket.
...Anand Varadaraja
The company’s Open Work Energy Measurement Project studied more than 100 participants in the company’s flexible work program to see how much energy they used at Sun offices, at their homes and when commuting to and from work. 
Employees saved more than $1,700 a year on gas and vehicle upkeep by working from home an average of 2.5 days a week. They also saved an average of 2.5 weeks of commute time.
Office equipment in Sun offices used twice as much energy as home office equipment, the study found. And commuting accounted for more than 98 percent of the employees’ carbon footprints.
About 19,000 Sun employees are in the flexible work program, accounting for 56 percent of the company’s workforce.
According to a telecommuting survey recently conducted by Dice, a technology career resource website, about 37 percent 1,500 technology professionals said they would be willing to cut their salary by 10 percent or less to telecommute. Thirty-six percent said they wouldn’t take a pay cut, 19 percent said they would take any job, and seven percent already telecommute.
Many companies in India have started Work from Home option. Genpact is implementing this in a big way.China plans to triple its wind power capacity over the next two years in line with the central government's goal of promoting clean energy and more sustainable economic development.
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a's total wind power capacity now stands at 6,000 megawatts, but by end 2008 this would have reached 10,000 Mw. And by 2010, the central government will have boosted wind power production to 20,000 Mw, estimates China's Energy Research institute (ERI).
China's rapidly expanding economy -- its average annual GDP growth has been surging at around ten percent over the past five years -- has made it a major energy consumer.
China depends primarily on coal, an abundant and cheap indigenous energy resource. In the next 20 years, as China's economy continues to rise, the Energy Information Administration forecasts that the demand for coal will grow at an annual rate of 3.5 percent. But coal-fired power plants boost carbon emissions that hasten global warming. The World Bank reports that China has 20 of the world's 30 most polluted cities, largely due to high coal use.
Global warming and consequent climate change are taken seriously by the Chinese government. Already, the melting of glaciers in Tibet and Xinjiang and increased temperatures in western China threaten to reduce the rain-fed rice yields. China's coastal areas have also suffered from extreme storm surges in the past few years that have been attributed to climate change.
Compared to leading wind energy producers and consumers such as Germany, Spain and the United States, China's installed capacity is still low.
As the proverb quotes “If there is no wind, row.” China is all set to row in wind power.
- Anand Varadaraja
Aqua-Aero WaterSystems has developed the WaterPyramid concept for tropical, rural areas. The WaterPyramid combines state of the art technology, capacity building and local entrepreneurship in order to achieve a long lasting (financial) sustainable situation. The WaterPyramid makes use of simple technology to process clean drinking water out of salt, brackish or polluted water. Most of the energy needed to clean the water is obtained from the sun. The application is designed for tropical or subtropical regions around the world, where flat ground space is available together with abundant radiation from the sun.