June 2011
17 posts
In.Development: Get 'em while they're HOT →
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in-development:
As you might already know I am apart of the International Development Student organization known as INDEVOURS.
I don’t want to bore you with what we’re all about so proceed to clicking the links for more information. I promise you’ll be thrilled.
But in MORE exciting news we’ve just…
Sustainable development is like teenage sex - everybody claims they are doing it...
– A lecture slide, originally Chris Spray (Northumbrian Water) in a Design Council piece about sustainability (via jessie-bee)
Southeast Asian Tensions
Yesterday I got my flight information for Vietnam. I’m tentatively leaving on September 7th at 10:00 am and arriving in Hanoi at 2:30 pm on the 8th. Despite my excitement that I have some indication of when I am going and maybe a bit of what I will be doing, I am really unsure of what the political climate will be once I get to Vietnam.
Tensions over the resource-heavy Spratly and...
'Virginity Tests' Tell All
Yesterday I came across a National Post article about virginity testing in Egypt. What is that, you might ask? Well, according to what I’ve seen it’s when highly ignorant men believe that they have the right to invade a women’s personal privacy and “check” if they’re a virgin or not - because of course it’s as simple as that.
Well, at least it seemed that...
May 2011
11 posts