Global Development Group aspires to educate the world and empower leaders, inventors, thinkers, schools, and businesses. We promote human development, technological advancement, and planetary responsibility.
We align talented leaders without conflict to empower and build business for a shared goal of success and growth. While we collaborate with leaders and experts, we strive to leave politics and special interests out of our common goals.Learn More
Beyond Nuclear
aims to educate and activate the public about the connections
between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to
abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates
for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic..
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GMOs (or “genetically modified organisms”)
are organisms that have been created through the gene-splicing
techniques of biotechnology (also called genetic engineering,
or GE). This relatively new science allows DNA from one species
to be injected into another species in a laboratory, creating
combinations of plant, animal, bacteria, and viral genes that
do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding
methods. Read
more.
Montesueños
The Most Unique Bed & Breakfast
in South America
Montesueños is the most unique bed
and breakfast in South America. It is located in one of the
last longevity valleys on the planet. It founders have intricately
designed a rich atmosphere for their guests to enjoy the best
that a natural paradise has to offer. See
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Homes
of the Future
A living tree house designed by Mitchell Joachim, Lara
Greden and Javier Arbona who are MIT designers. Their design
brings the environment to its dwellers. It is composed of
100% living nutrients. Read
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Let's Reduce
the Great Garbage Patch!
100% sugar cane fiber (bagasse), a byproduct
of the sugar refining process. Supplies of this material are
virtually unlimited worldwide. The use of bagasse products
eliminates the dependence of traditional wood fiber-based
materials in disposable tableware. Read
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Half of the world's poor
suffer from waterborne disease, and nearly 6,000 people -
mainly children - die each day by consuming unsafe drinking
water. LifeStraw® water purifiers have been developed
as a practical way of preventing disease and saving lives,
as well as achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing
by one-half the proportion of people without sustainable access
to safe water by the year 2015.
Global Green-
A Community Outreach Program for Leaders
Global Green seeks to bridge the information
gap between weak environmental practices and green practices
in the workplace to encourage the transition into sustainable
practices. While the Green movement has gained more attention,
most businesses do not have an initiative on how to implement
this into the work place. This initiative, Global Green,
will match companies with available green resources and educate
them on better environmental practices. Read
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Over many thousands of years humanity has
participated in some strange and bizarre behaviors. In ancient
Rome, it was common to eat an extravagant meal and then
regurgitate that meal to return and eat again. In some cultures
the foot is bound to keep it from growing, rings are worn
around the neck to elongate it, some cultures mutilate genitals
or other body parts as a justified practice. For some these
practices seem cruel and are viewed as a misuse of the human
body. Other feel that it is time for humanity to move beyond
damaging the human body that houses our spirit. When we
look at food, we should see resources to give our bodies
nutrition so that we can function to the best of our ability
in this vehicle that houses our spirit. The spirit is the
most important aspect of caring for our bodies. Read
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ULTRASOUND:
THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE
Yasmina Ajimi-Hernader
Sonography, or ultrasonography, is the
use of sound waves to generate an image used for assessment
and diagnosis of various medical conditions. Ultrasound
technology bounces acoustic waves off samples, extracting
images and data from the reflected signals by using relatively
inexpensive electronics that switch between transmitting
and receiving (Rollins, 2005). Read
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A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and
is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be
the ideal place for life.
NASA
Telescope Confirms Alien Planet in Habitable Zone
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — NASA's planet-hunting
Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of its first
alien world in its host star's habitable zone — that
just-right range of distances that could allow liquid water
to exist — and found more than 1,000 new explanet
candidates, researchers announced today (Dec. 5).
Kepler also has discovered 1,094 new planet
candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count.
Since the last catalog was released in February, the number
of planet candidates identified by Kepler has increased
by 89 percent and now totals 2,326. Of these, 207 are approximately
Earth-size, 680 are super Earth-size, 1,181 are Neptune-size,
203 are Jupiter-size and 55 are larger than Jupiter. Read
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i
sea, i care
DOLPHIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
We must act to stop the tragedies that
are being inflicted on dolphins and ensure that our dolphins
in Victoria are protected from similar fates, so that future
generations can also be touched by these smiling ambassadors
for the sea. Read
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EV
Drivers Adopt Solar Chargers to Wean Themselves Off the
Grid
Drivers wanting to drive electric cars
are getting an incentive to go solar. Several people who
already use solar power at home are considering electric
vehicles. To that end, companies specializing in home solar
systems are beginning to offer EV chargers as well. SolarCity
has installed more than 2,500 residential solar EV charging
stations, for example, and REC Solar has joined GE to include
GE WattStation Level 2 chargers in new solar setups. Read
more.
How
Did You Get Green Eyes?
Most science classes teach that a mother
and father pass on one of two genes to their offspring.
This is what determines the color of the eye in a way of
dominent verses recessive genes, but maybe that is not the
whole picture. A geneticist from Stanford explains. Read
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Transparency The Next Step in Human Spiritual Evolution
Secrecy has kept humanity from progressing in several
ways. While we currently live in an environment where
secrecy has been heralded as a way to protect and control
information, people, and cultures, it has also kept humanity
from progression. This concept is in fact so progressive
that some are threatened by the very concept. It means
that monetary wealth, technological advancements, and
trade secrets would be threatened according to current
standards. Humanity must eventually realize that
it is our environmental factors that are flawed and must
someday change if we are ever to progress in our spiritual
evolution. By Dianne Irene. Read
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Waste
From Nuclear Plants A MAJOR Problem for Humanity
Take a look at the shocking reality of
nuclear radioactive waste. Uranium is dumped in parts of
Kyrgyzstan, waste containment from the 70's is outdated
and leaking into the watershed and ecosystem, Chernobyl
is still a graveyard, 3 Mile Island still has mutated animals
and plants and cancer rates are high, mistakes are made
like leaving a nuclear core in the open because of paperwork,
Japan's tragic mistake of trusting nuclear plants, the horrors
of Saddam Hussein's use of radioactive material on his own
people, and still humanity continues to create this finite
killer. Read More.
Unconditional
Love: One's Greatest Achievement
It all comes down to a foundation of one
journey no matter the details. The greatest journey for
every human spirit is the journey of love. Whether this
love is between two people, for orphans, or to live a life
of service to progress some aspect of human life, it still
is about love. By Dianne Irene Read
more.
GMO (Gentically Modified Organism) -takes
strands of bacteria and viruses and infuses them into
plants. Animal and human DNA strands are now also being
used.
Anti-GMO
Movement in Europe Changes Tide for GMO's
How is it that our neighbors across the
pond were able to swiftly enact mandatory labeling laws
and essentially ban genetically modified (GM) crops in six
European states, while here in the United States we let
the biotech machine plow on? What lessons can we learn from
the Europeans? Read
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Saving
On IT Energy Consumption
By Carl Gill
Energy is
a significant and rising expense for information technology.
In fact, it can be as high as 25% of an IT budget. CIOs
are under pressure to lower energy consumption. Read
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Empathy
It is essential for those who do not
have an innate ability to feel empathy to learn this process
even if they cannot truly feel what others feel. The acknowledgement
of our actions as a direct reaction on others can still
be a learned process that will enable an individual to progress
to a more balanced state. by Dianne Irene
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