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Kaiser Family Foundation resource links: “With technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth, according to a study released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of …
Women, Men and the New Economics of Marriage: “The institution of marriage has undergone significant changes in recent decades as women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth. These unequal gains have been accompanied by gender role reversals in both the spousal characteristics and the economic benefits of marriage. A larger share of men …
“Through entrepreneurship education, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), helps young people from low-income communities build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. Since 1987, NFTE has reached more than 280,000 young people, and currently has programs in 21 states and 12 countries. NFTE has more than 1,500 active Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers, and is continually improving …
Earth Policy Institute: “The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. More than a quarter of the total U.S. grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars last year. With 200 ethanol distilleries …
AARP – Connecting and Giving: A Report on How Mid-life and Older Americans Spend Their Time, Make Connections and Build Communities, January 2010. “Key findings of the August 2009 telephone survey revealed that: The nature of civic engagement is changing, becoming more personal and more secular. Mid-life and older Americans are less likely to join …
World Resources Institute: “On January 20th, sixty corporations begin measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of their products and supply chains by road testing a new global framework that is part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. Developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the two new …
UN Permanent Forum Origin and Development Report: State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, January 2010. “Indigenous peoples contribute extensibly to humanity’s cultural diversity, enriching it with more than two thirds of its languages and an extraordinary amount of its traditional knowledge. There are over 370 million indigenous people in some 90 countries, living in all …
News release: “This report was written as a companion report to “A Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process,” a report commissioned by OCLC Research and produced by Key Perspectives Ltd, a UK library and scholarly publishing consultancy. Published in December 2009, the …
TechCrunch – Research firm Outsell has published its third annual News Users report [fee only], which is based on a survey about the online and offline news preferences of 2,787 US news consumers. The Outsell report unsurprisingly predicts ongoing, steep drops in US newspapers print circulation as consumers continue to head online for news consumption …
Report: Social Networking in Government: Opportunities & Challenges, Human Capital Institute, January 2010 “Social networking (SN) has become the new online rage. Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn have provided creative ways to recruit, engage, connect and retain employees. They have also provided an opportunity to facilitate strategic …
The discovery of Large-billed Reed Warblers Acrocephalus orinus in north-eastern Afghanistan, BirdingASIA 12 (2009): 4245 “Protection of this threatened ecosystem [the Wakhan region of Badakshan province, north-eastern Afghanistan], possibly one of the principal breeding habitats for Large-billed Reed Warbler, is a matter of urgency. Conservation measures will have to consider both the development of alternative …
WSJ: “In a texting donation, a person types a so-called short-code such as 90999 and then types in “HAITI” to donate a preset amount of $10. The cellphone user then gets a text back asking that they confirm the donation. After a confirmation, the person receives a text saying, “Thanks! $10 charged to your phone …
