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As the talks in Copenhagen move through the difficult process of attempting to balance the needs of the planet with the needs of many of the people who live on that planet – specifically those who live in developing nations – we should look at some of the ways broadband Internet access can help the environment; especially at this time of year.

Emily Gertz at Grist writes: G20 cans fossil-fuel subsidies, but fails to make other climate-conserving moves On Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama formally announced that the world’s 20 major developed and developing nations had agreed to gradually eliminate fossil-fuel subsidies. It was the only climate-specific policy directive to come out of the Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Pittsburgh, and it fell far short in the view of climate activists, who were hoping for a firm propo

Photo via Women's RIghts The opening session on the second day of the Clinton Global Initiative focused on an under-examined issue in the green movement--women's rights and empowerment. When I sat down with Bill Clinton the night before CGI began, he mentioned that investing in women and girls was a good way to invest in fighting climate change. Providing education to women in developing nations has been proven to combat ove... Read the full story on TreeHugger

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email newsletter. | Sourced From Newsobserver.com |WASHINGTON — Unfortunately, China’s president had to dash home to suppress ethnic riots. Had he stayed in Italy at the recent G-8 summit, he could have continued the Herculean task of disabusing Barack Obama of his amazingly durable belief, shared by Congress, that China — and India, Brazil, Mexico and other developing nations — will sacrifice their modernization on the a

The noble goal of a $100 laptop for developing nations has come to fruition -- but of course at a higher cost and later date than expected. One Laptop Per Child has succeeded in delivering 900,000 XO laptops into the hands of kids, but that's a far cry from the many millions expected and Chairman Nicholas Negroponte is pulling no punches in describing what went wrong. He's still bitter at Intel , claiming it worked to "spoil the market," and angry about many nations cutting back on large deal