Archive for October, 2008
As I travel on the verge of being one of the constituents of one of the first generations of architects who will have to immediately tackle issues of climate change and global warming vis a vis Architecture, I began to wonder of little issues in lifestyle that may contribute to human living being more greener [...]
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Tags: Architecture, Environment, Going Green, Religion, Sri Lanka
About an year ago, Prof. Cris Lingle spoke at on the topic at a lecture we organized. Finally, we have managed to put some excerpts up on You Tube.
Part 1, focusing on Globalization:
Part 2, focusing on culture and globalization:
The lecture stirred up a lot of discussion. More [...]
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Tags: Culture, Free Trade, Globalization, Sri Lanka
We are In Mutiny
Or something like that. Beyond Borders has started a brand new blog called “InMutiny”, primarily based on our project to document youth responses on the ethnic conflict. The blog would primarily feature members of our study circle based in Colombo, but any young person can contribute to the blog by emailing their thoughts, articles and [...]
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Tags: Ethnic Conflict, InMutiny, Sri Lanka, Youth Responses, Youth views
The changing face of Brain Trade
The brain trade, it might sound like something out of a cheesy 1920’s horror movie but it’s really just a familiar, everyday concept. It’s where an individual ‘sells’ his brain (essentially his skills) to a country (generally economically superior to his own) which then absorbs him (or her), into its system thus benefitting from the [...]
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Tags: Brain Drain, Economics, Sri Lanka
Save Lanka Kids is organizing a youth conference on HIV/AIDS from 19-21 October 2008. Registration is free till the 9th of October 2008. From the Conference website :
R.E.A.C.H NOW ’08 is a three day conference organized by Save Lanka Kids (SLK) with the main objective of empowering us youth to be Change Agents. By providing us [...]
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Tags: Conference, HIV/AIDS, Sri Lanka, Youth Conference
Bringing down the sun
That’s the name of the song done by Paranoid Earthling for the World Peace Day 2008. It’s youtubed for your viewing pleasure:
The video comes from the Young Asia Telivision Youtube channel, who is now putting out some quality material up there. BB is also on youtube, if anyone wants to subscribe.
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Tags: Activism, Music, Music for Peace, Peace, Peace Day 2008, Sri Lanka, Youth, Youth Activism
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