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29 Jul 2009, 1:18 pm
It was a response to Hurricane Katrina, with all the proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity recovery efforts. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 1:18 pm
Landover-based 2U, which provides cloud-based education-related software, announced it has partnered with Habitat for Humanity to provide AmeriCorps Alumni Association members with scholarships to four master’s degree programs enabled by 2U — international relations from American University, public administration and business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and public health from ... [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 7:44 am
Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant have an article (which could be subtitled “Social Change Without Borders”) recently published at ChangeThis, described thusly: Using Habitat for Humanity as a dynamic example, authors of Forces for Good, Crutchfield and Grant, present this manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits do to achieve wide-scale social change. [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 11:15 am
After the Storm, by Various Artists (2005): This is a 2-disc charity project put together by the organizers of NEARFest to benefit Habitat for Humanity's relief efforts in the wake of Katrina. [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 12:30 am
Jimmy Carter was one of the 10,000 volunteers who built the Fairway Oaks housing development in 17 days. [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 9:21 am
Mainly, it's Habitat for Humanity. [read post]
5 Oct 2009, 10:39 am
Today is World Habitat Day, and many organizations like UN Habitat or Habitat for Humanity are raising awareness on issues of adequate housing and shelter. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 3:19 pm
The BP (British Petroleum) oil spill, off the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama in 2010 was a devastating event that took human life and inflicted serious injuries to oil workers, not to mention the disastrous effects on the environment, wildlife habitat and local industries, especially tourism. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 10:54 am
Habitat for Humanity Intern., Inc. [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 5:13 pm
On of my proudest moments as a Florida lawyer was when I opened the latest issue of the Florida Bar News and read the cover story on Lawyers to the Rescue's Habitat for Humanity Project. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 3:49 pm
Amphibians such as frogs and reptiles such as turtles, are recognized as a source of human Salmonella infections. [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 6:18 pm
Alaska filed suit challenging the designation by FWS of critical habitat for polar bears. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 3:15 am
It was particularly ironic to see some of the panelists say there would be no additional markets for a commercial crew system when Mike Gold of Bigelow Aerospace-a company that would be a likely customer for such a system to service its planned orbital habitats-was sitting in the first row of the audience. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 6:28 pm
Farmland, transformed into grassland, has became a perfect habitat for wild boars and foxes. [read post]
7 Jul 2020, 9:00 pm
The report warns that diseases such as COVID-19 that can jump from animals to humans are more likely to emerge as animals’ habitats are destroyed by wildlife exploitation, poor farming practices, and climate change. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 11:21 am
This is a crucial investment toward our nation’s ecological health because scientists estimate that two in 10 animal and plant species in the United States are at risk of extinction, largely as a result of habitat loss due to growing human populations and residential, commercial and energy activities in and around important wildlife migration corridors. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 7:43 am
But while it is indisputable that ORV's cause some degree of habitat impact, see National Park Service article on human/panther interactions, another question needs to be considered: in the absence of the use of at least portions of that habitat, would the motivation exist to preserve the rest of the habitat? [read post]
Rieter: Preventing Irreparable Harm: Provisional Measures in International Human Rights Adjudication
29 Mar 2010, 10:13 am
Here's the abstract:International human rights adjudicators, while facing urgent cases, have used provisional measures in order to prevent irreparable harm, e.g. to order States to halt an expulsion, the execution of a death sentence, destruction of the natural habitat, or to ensure access to health care in detention or protection against death threats.In the practice of the various adjudicators the traditional concept of provisional measures has undergone a process of… [read post]
Rieter: Preventing Irreparable Harm: Provisional Measures in International Human Rights Adjudication
29 Mar 2010, 10:13 am
Here's the abstract:International human rights adjudicators, while facing urgent cases, have used provisional measures in order to prevent irreparable harm, e.g. to order States to halt an expulsion, the execution of a death sentence, destruction of the natural habitat, or to ensure access to health care in detention or protection against death threats.In the practice of the various adjudicators the traditional concept of provisional measures has undergone a process of… [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 8:37 am
The run benefited Habitat for Humanity, the Masonic Home for Children in Oxford, NC, InterAct and construction related scholarships. [read post]
