Sangeeta Waldron
Justmeans
United Kingdom
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The C.M. Rubin Platform Fostering Education for All
(3BL Media/Justmeans) — Across the world, 59 million children and 65 million adolescents are out of school, while more than 120 million children do not complete primary education. Behind these figures there are children and young people being denied not only a right, but opportunities—a fair chance to get a decent job, to escape poverty, to support their families and to develop their communities. → Read More
University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s #AddWater Campaign
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - The campaign #AddWater is a simple, but effective scheme where staff and students at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s (UWTSD) Lampeter campus are being asked to add 5p (or more) to the cost of the drinks they buy from the university’s catering outlets. → Read More
In Conversation With Marcus Shingles, CEO, XPRIZE
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - Sangeeta Waldron interviewed Marcus Shingles, CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation at the Web Summit – the largest tech conference in the world. The XPRIZE is a not-for-profit global leader in designing and implementing innovative competition models to solve the world’s grandest challenges. → Read More
Web Summit 2017’s Hard Focus On Climate Change
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – Last week, over 60,000 people from 170 countries attended the Web Summit – a major annual tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The week was fiercely charged with an energy of change, where over 2,600 of the world’s leading media came to share their stories. → Read More
World Business Council for Sustainable Development ‘Means Business’ Tackling Climate Change
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent; disrupting national economies, affecting lives, communities and costing business dearly. We are all experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, from changing weather patterns to rising sea level and more extreme weather events. → Read More
Bloomberg Opens One of the World’s Most Sustainable Buildings in London
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - Michael Bloomberg, billionaire media mogul and former mayor of New York, said at a technology conference in Boston last month that Brexit is the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done” apart from the election of Donald Trump as US president. → Read More
#MeToo Campaign Forces Companies to Look at Their Policies
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - The avalanche of stories after the Harvey Weinstein revelations has shown that this kind of deeply inappropriate behavior is rife across other industries and culture. It’s like a social pandemic. → Read More
India’s Green Building Boom
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - India is booming: the rise of a huge middle class, a free-spending younger generation and business-friendly government reforms is making it one of the world's fastest-growing emerging market economies, one that expects to post 6.6 percent growth this fiscal year. By contrast, forecasts have the US economy growing at 2.3 percent in 2017. → Read More
Immigration Rules Cause UK “Curry Crisis”
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - Former UK foreign secretary Robin Cook’s famous 2001 speech cited chicken tikka masala as the national dish of Britain, as an example of the way that the country had changed, but now, the country is in a curry crisis. The previous prime minister, David Cameron, had pledged to protect the £4.2bn curry industry which employs 100,000 people, to get the skilled Asian chefs… → Read More
New Online Biology Lessons For Low-Income Students Worldwide
(3BL Media/Justmeans) Science classes provide most teens their sole exposure to biology, and low-income teens depend on this education. Reforming how science is taught can give students the experiences that will most likely captivate them. → Read More
Only Two Penguin Chicks Survive After The Rest Starve To Death
(3BL Media/Justmeans) In parts of the Antarctic peninsula, sea ice cover has reduced by over 60% in 30 years; and this has affected the Adélie penguins who are a vital part of the Antarctic food chain. → Read More
Samsung Helping to Bridge Africa’s Digital Divide
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – In the past two decades, there has been a lot of talk about the transformative power of technology in society, yet little attention has been paid to an emerging digital gap. → Read More
“Ignite My Future” Prepares US Students for Careers That Don’t Yet Exist
(3BL Media/Justmeans) In the US right now, less than 25 percent of schools teach computer science-related courses. Yet in less than five years, there will be one million more jobs requiring computer science skills. → Read More
The Race to Protect the Gene Pool Of Coffee
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – Ethiopia contains rugged highlands and lush, tropical forests, where the ‘coffea arabica’ grows in its original, wild form. The forests of southwest Ethiopia are considered to be the birthplace of coffee and the centre of its genetic diversity. Here we find Yayu, which is a designated UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, with a delicate interdependence between flora and fauna. → Read More
Taylor Wilson Thompson Family Foundation: Investing In America’s Youth To Lead
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – Identifying and developing the next generation of leaders is a hot topic. The Taylor Wilson Thompson Family Foundation believes young people hold the potential to make positive change in their communities and that their voices should be heard, as they begin thinking about the issues that face them as they become adults. → Read More
IMF Tells Rich Countries You Must Do More To Help Poor Nations Cope With Climate Change
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – Last month UK’s Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon dismissed complaints that the UK's response to the devastation of the British Virgin Islands by Hurricane Irma was "found wanting" and that it was slower than France and the Netherlands. The British Overseas Territories are self-governing, but rely on the UK for protection from natural disasters. → Read More
BNY Mellon Opened America’s First Bank By And For Women in 1921
(3BL Media/Justmeans) –Around the world today there are approximately 98 million girls who are not in school. While, again globally, one in three women will experience gender-based violence in her lifetime and in the developing world, one in seven girls are married before their 15th birthday, with some child brides as young as eight or nine. → Read More
PathVis: A Smartphone-Based Platform That Fights Cholera
(3BL Media/Justmeans) –In recent years, cholera has afflicted at least 770,000 Haitians, claiming over 9,200 lives. The Haitian epidemic alone resulted in an 85 percent increase in the number of cholera cases worldwide. → Read More
HP Inc. Delivering On Its Promise Of A Global Education For The Most Disadvantaged
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – HP Inc. (NYSE:HPQ) has a long commitment to improving education for those in the developing world. In 2016, it improved learning for over four million students. → Read More
Forget About The Fly In Your Soup, There’s Plastic In Your Tap Water
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – In the first public scientific study of its kind, research by Orb Media, with a researcher at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, shows the shocking extent of plastic contamination in tap water of cities around the world. → Read More