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IYPF April 07 Newsletter - Global Warming and Water
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Apr 15th, 2007 - 20:18:23 |
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The April Edition - World Water Day, Global Warming and Climate
Change, Follow up on World International Women's Day
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Dear friends and colleagues
Welcome to our third newsletter for 2007. We=B4ve warmed up now and in
this edition we focus on two of the biggest global challenges of the
moment - Global Warming and Water.
Thanks to human development and the globalised nature of our
existence, climate change and access to clean fresh water present
twin, related problems for human existence on earth at a scale we
haven=B4t know previously. Overcoming these challenges and enacting
solutions will require the best of us - good will, altruism,
cooperation, collaboration, social innovation, wisdom, and perhaps
most importantly, courage and hope.
As young professionals, we have a central role to play in addressing
the climate and water challenges. We have skills and expertise; we
have power in our communities and in our work places; we have
resources at our disposal that many others in our societies do not
have; we have grown up in a globalised world and have some insight in
to the interconnection of the lives of those on the planet; and,
hopefully, we have the motivation to step up to the challenge given
the potential impact of global warming and water scarcity on the next
50-70 years of our lives.
In addition to our themes of climate change and water, we do some
follow up on last month=B4s International Women=B4s Day theme. There are
opportunities and resources for you as always, and also information
on the IYPF=B4s 2006 Annual Report and our search for an Interim
Director.
We continue our `Top Lists=B4, letting you know about some `hot=B4 new
books, reports, blogs and websites, and giving you some ideas for how
you can contribute to making the world a better place in April and
May, such as participating in Global Youth Service Day, joining up to
the global campaign for education and the campaign to end water
poverty, and completing the We the People survey on the Millennium
Development Goals.
Wishing you courage and hope
Cameron Neil, IYPF CEO
IN THIS EDITION
IYPF Organisational News - Interim Director Sought, Taking up the
Climate Challenge, 2006 Annual Report, IYPF Memberships
Member Activities & Projects - Network of African Youths for
Development
Top Lists for April - IYF Releases Latest Learnings on Employee
Engagement; Appropedia; Global Youth Service Day; Global Campaign for
Education
Partner Activities and Events - Awakening Global Action
IYPF Communities - HIV/AIDS and Agriculture Conference; WDR 2008
Conference on Agriculture for Development; Millenium Development
Goals at the Crossroads: We the People 2007; MDG Indicators
April 2007 Themes - Global Warming & Climate Change; World Water Day;
Follow-Up on World International Women's Day
Opportunities and Resources - Conferences, Events and Knowledge
About IYPF - Who are we? How can you get involved?
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Join the International Young Professionals Foundation
http://www.iypf.org/membership.htm
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International Young Professionals Foundation
Cameron Neil Chief Executive Officer
0402 072 452 cameronneil (at) iypf.org
www.iyps.org www.iypf.org
http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/cjneil
http://cjneil.tigblog.org
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"if you want to build a ship, don't gather your people and
ask them to provide wood, prepare tools, assign tasks...
Just call them together and raise in their minds a longing
for the endless sea." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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