A global election is taking place between Earth and Global Warming. Your vote will contribute to a worldwide mandate for action on climate change, to be presented to world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, set on 16 December 2009. What’s your vote? “Because global warming is not about what country you’re…
Today, on 7 June 2009, hundreds of thousands of people across the globe in 24 times zone walk together to raise funds and awareness for United Nations World Food Programme’s work to end child hunger. The event is named ‘Walk the World’, one of the most significant global events against hunger. The WFP walk in…
Yesterday night, my friend and I observed the 2009 Earth Hour, from 20:30 till 21:30, Jakarta’s time. Along with us, 83 countries the world over were participating, turning off lights for an hour to raise awareness of global warming. In Jakarta, the local government committed to turning off the lights in 5 of the city’s…
[After visiting Farid and Erisa’s blog on their published writings of Shariah bond, I got inspired to post my own published writings here. After all, it is also an opportunity to post my original writing as I had intended, without the editor’s cut. There is also the added benefit of hyperlinks through this medium. The…
This afternoon, my colleagues and I watched the TV in our office library enthusiastically. In what was probably the most-watched political race of the year, I have witnessed history in the making. Obama’s speech was perhaps the most inspiring and the best live speech I have heard. I shivered as those words came out from…
“But guys like me get involved in things sometimes because nobody else will… Because it’s not in the rule book, or it’s politically inconvenient, or it’s too weird, or — or simply because nobody else cares. The government, the big corporations, the money guys… they all have plenty of people willing to put it all…