Happy 100th Birthday #NationalPark Service
Celebration is in the air for the August 25, 2016 Centennial birthday of the the National Park Service. Special programs and festivities are planned at the 58 parks in the…
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First #Drought, now Flood in Africa’s Second Most Populous Nation
Rich in history and situated in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country and its second most populated. However, Ethiopia needs international support as the effects of…
The #Indigenous, Educators & Custodians of our Future
There are more than 370 million Indigenous people living in more than 90 countries across the globe. (Rainforest Action Network) The theme this year at the United Nations for International…
PING4dogs & PONGbeats#Yulin !
DiplomatArtist.com has raised the platform “Do Animals Need a UN Ambassador?”; but perhaps an equally relevant question is “Does our Sustainable Future Need Animal Ambassadors?” To raise awareness and realization…
#Veganism on a #GlobalScale? :
Questions that might arise on what veganism can mean to those that are not part of the Western World
There is no doubt that eating less meat and dairy products from the over-industrialized farms that plague our world today and switching to a diet rich in plant-based, unprocessed foods…
World Humanitarian Summit – ‘A Common Humanity Shared Responsibilities’
Istanbul is host to the World Humanitarian Summit, May 23-24. 2016. To shape a different global future in a world facing unprecedented humanitarian challenges — (130 million people in desperate…
“Stay Super” – Beat #Diabetes
Diabetes, left untreated, is a killer; and it is on the rise, alarmingly so. According to the World Health Organization: “In 1980, 108 million adults were living with diabetes. By…
Empowering Young #Women & Advancing #GenderParity
Birth and gender should not determine a woman’s level of advancement, education, and family and societal worth. Leading the efforts to empower a woman’s right to safe childbirth, right to…
#Japan & World Remembers 11, March 2011
It’s hard to fathom that five years have gone by since life changed so abruptly for the 20,000 people killed in eastern Japan when an earthquake and tsunami slammed its…
Swamp Queen with a Crown for a Sustainable Mission
Laura McKeeman Rutledge, age 27, born in St. Petersburg, Florida is a graduate of the University of Florida. Having majored in broadcast journalism, she went on to become a reporter…