Humanitarian Relief News- Cuba: Torrential rains cause severe flooding in the east, 20,000 evacuated
- DR Congo: Security Council reinforces UN troops by nearly 3,000 until year's end
- Georgia: Long-standing IDPs want international help too
- Sudan: 2009 Work Plan valued at USD 2.2bn, half of it for Darfur
- DR Congo: UK aid agencies launch joint appeal to ease humanitarian crisis
- Somalia: Policy overhaul required to protect people
- Zimbabwe: South Africa to withhold aid over political impasse
Archive for August, 2008
Inside Black Diamond, Climbing Hardware Manufacturer
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in all_labels | No Comments »
For all the climbers out there who wonder where their carabiners come from, well, it's chunks of aluminum that get bent and cut from rod stock by a CNC machine, ... Read more..Tranquility in Maple Canyon, UT
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in all_labels | No Comments »
Scrub oak and wild grass thickened into aspen groves and maples as the landscape fell away before me. Folding into itself, the valleys deepened into canyons whose ribs and fingers ... Read more..blog.mec.ca
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in all_labels | 1 Comment »
MEC, or Mountain Equipment Co-Op, is similar to the U.S. retailer Recreational Equipment Incorporated. It's one of those big chains producing and selling an outdoor sporting equipment--think less hunting and ... Read more..Trying to Slack in SLC at Outdoor Retailer, but CSR Wins Out
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in all_labels | 2 Comments »
She was shuffling through a stack of playing cards that climbing equipment manufacturer Petzl had produced. "There's one of me in here that you did," she said. In her hands ... Read more..Cambodian National Volleyball League, Disabled on Good Magazine
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in all_labels | No Comments »
Romy, who worked for the CNLVD in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, under the sponsorship of the German Olympic Committee sent this link along. It's a video short about their disabled athletes ... Read more..