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School ‘superfood’ project aims to curb malnutrition

The potential of algae to feed the hungry is being turned into reality by students at a high school In Tel Aviv. The students are developing a system to convert highly nutritious spirulina alga into powder for distribution in poor African communities. ... [Published Thomson Reuters - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Malnutrition, Algae, Developing World, Tel Aviv

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Jamie Dimon

Pyrrhic victory for Dimon is defeat for governance

(Reuters) — The Pyrrhic victory Tuesday for Jamie Dimon is a defeat for governance. Just over two-thirds of JPMorgan shareholders voted to keep him as both chairman and chief executive at the bank’s annual meeting in Tampa on Tuesday. And Dimon and the ... [Published Thomson Reuters - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Jamie Dimon, London Whale, Management Team, JPMorgan Chase & Co

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Many children among 91 feared dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma

At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed.President Barack Obama ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 21 2013]

Entities: Oklahoma (United States), Tornado, Todd Lamb, Major Disaster

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

West Virginia University College of Law

Super Lawyers Names 2012 Pro Bono Award Recipients

– Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, has announced the seven recipients of its second annual Pro Bono Awards. The awards recognize legal professionals, students, firms and organizations that exemplify excellence in the practice of law by offering ... [Published Thomson Reuters - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Pro Bono, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, West Virginia University College of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Three-quarters of Asia-Pacific nations ‘lack water security’

About 75 per cent of emerging economies in the Asia-Pacific region suffer from low levels of water security, with millions still living without safe water supplies and sanitation facilities, according to a study published this week (13 March).The Asian ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 21 2013]

Entities: Sanitation, Security, Integrated Planning, Singapore

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Michel Barnier

The future of sustainability reporting: how can we make it better?

(The Guardian) — Last month’s EU Commission proposal for a directive requiring sustainability reporting (SR) by large European companies and this week’s Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) conference, where EU Commissioner Michel Barnier will doubtless ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 21 2013]

Entities: Sustainability, Michel Barnier, European Commissioner

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Campaigners expect extractive transparency standard overhaul

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Oil, gas and mining executives, transparency campaigners, investors and government officials will meet in Sydney this week at a conference that is expected to agree a stricter transparency standard for the extractive in ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 21 2013]

Entities: Sydney (Australia), Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Sustainability, Mining

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Special report: Health Care Reform 2014

The health care legislation pays for its cost in a number of ways, including taxes, penalties and tougher rules for health care related exclusions and deductionsA little more than three years ago, Congress enacted legislation that overhauls the U.S. health ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 21 2013]

Entities: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Taxes

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill

In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by General Motors Corp.The “California Hydrogen Highway,” ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 20 2013]

Entities: Hydrogen Highway, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hydrogen, Terry Tamminen, Karl Miller

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Food recovery network started by students to help end America’s hunger

According to official statistics, America’s food waste amounted to 35 million tons in 2010. Ninety-seven per cent of that ended up in incinerators or landfills, where rotting food is a top emitter of methane gas, which is 21 times more harmful toward ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 17 2013]

Entities: University of Maryland, College Park, Putrefaction, Emitter, Methane

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Youth Perspective: The Island

Green Writing Competition Winner - Maya I’AnsonThomson Reuters teamed up with Calder High School in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom to launch a green writing competition aimed at raising awareness of environmental issues among the school’s ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 17 2013]

Entities: Calder High School, Anson Ltd, Hibiscus

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Economic losses from disasters underestimated, ‘out of control’

Economic losses caused by disasters have been underestimated by at least 50 percent, and are “out of control”, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.The head of the world body was speaking on Wednesday at the New York launch of a U.N. report on ... [Published Thomson Reuters - May 17 2013]

Entities: Disaster, Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Risk Management, San Felipe (United States), Hurricane Wilma

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