The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power 30 years later.
Tác giả: Đào Thu Hằng
I'm from Hanoi, Viet Nam.
I'm an author of Dot Chuoi Non (dotchuoinon.com/author/hangbelu/), a blog on Positive thinking, founded by Dr. Tran Dinh Hoanh, an attorney in Washington DC.
I'm a co-founder of Conversations on Vietnam Development - cvdvn.net, a virtual think tank. I am a co-founder of two companies in Viet Nam working on children education services. I advise companies on STEAM education, English language education for children and students in Vietnam.
I'm studying the Buddha's teaching and the teaching of Jesus. I practice mindful living including meditation.
I hold a PhD on Sustainable Energy Systems from University of Lisbon and Aalto University.
I graduated from Hanoi University of Technology on Environmental Engineering. I obtained a Master degree of the same major from Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University.
My English-language blog at: hangbelu.wordpress/.
I play table tennis as a hobby.
Effective conservation science must shift away from doomsday views and toward solutions: Study
- Too much of conservation research focuses on describing the state of nature, in particular declines in biodiversity, and not on developing sustainable solutions to conservation challenges, say the authors of a new study.
- Studies that “ring the alarm bell” tend to dominate because of the challenges of doing the kind of complex multidisciplinary research needed to develop workable solutions, and the fact that professional and financial incentives are lacking for the latter kind of work.
- The researchers highlighted three cases in which the accumulated body of research on a particular conservation challenge took a solution-oriented trajectory and met with success: South Asian vultures, whooping cranes, and seabird bycatch.
Conservation science that more effectively serves the goals of protecting and enhancing global biodiversity must shift away from tracking declines and toward devising real-world solutions, a recent study suggests.
Too much of the field’s research focuses on describing the state of nature (such as the fact that a particular population is declining), and too little on what is causing those declines and how to address it, the authors write in their paper in the journal Conservation Letters. Tiếp tục đọc “Effective conservation science must shift away from doomsday views and toward solutions: Study”
Vietnam drug user number rises by 10,000 in a year
Drug users work at a rehabilitation center in Hanoi, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Anh Duy.
Vietnam registers more than 10,000 new drug users last year, with the users getting younger and being concentrated in the southern region.
Revealing this at a conference on Thursday, Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha said that there are now middle school students in many places using drugs.
Many rehabilitation centers in the country are overcrowded, she noted.
Vietnam had 111 licensed centers with around 35,000 inmates as of April.
As of last November the country had 235,314 drug addicts in its official records, 10,215 more than a year earlier.
“The number and the seriousness of crimes like robberies, disturbing public order, and murders committed by drug users has also gone up,” Ha said.
Ngo Thanh Binh, deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security’s department of drug crime investigation, said the number of addicts aged between 12 and 18 is on the rise, and it is difficult to send them to rehab due to legal complications arising from international charters on child rights Vietnam has signed.
Vietnam treats drug addiction as a “social evil.”
According to the department, the quantity of drugs seized last year was the highest ever at nearly nine tons.
Vấn đề kỹ thuật năng lượng gió ngoài khơi
Ngày nay năng lượng gió (NLG) nói chung và NLG trên biển (ngoài khơi) nói riêng, một trong những năng lượng tái tạo được sử dụng ngày càng rộng rãi và trở thành xu thế chung của thế giới khi công nghệ sản suất và lắp đặt được hoàn thiện, chi phí lắp đặt ngày càng giảm so với những năm đầu phát triển. Các nước công nghiệp phát triển đã đề ra chiến lược khai thác NLG ngoài khơi tích cực hơn trong tương lai và thay thế dần các nguồn năng lượng truyền thống như than đá, thuỷ điện, hạt nhân,…
I. Vai trò của năng lượng gió trên thế giới Tiếp tục đọc “Vấn đề kỹ thuật năng lượng gió ngoài khơi”
The Atlantic slave trade – Lịch sử buôn bán nô lệ xuyên Đại Tây Dương
1977 Vlog – Chiếc Thuyền Ngoài Xa – Ngôi Báu Cát
Thông tin cơ bản 1977 Vlog theo wiki Các thành viên
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Tiếp tục đọc “1977 Vlog – Chiếc Thuyền Ngoài Xa – Ngôi Báu Cát”
Việt Nam hoàn toàn có thể là quốc gia “dẫn dắt” điện gió ngoài khơi trong khu vực
Đó là khẳng định của bà Ngô Thị Tố Nhiên – Giám đốc Điều hành Tổ chức sáng kiến về chuyển dịch năng lượng Việt Nam (VIET) khi trao đổi với PV xung quanh chủ đề phát triển điện gió ngoài khơi ở Việt Nam.
- Chiến lược phát triển năng lượng quốc gia của Việt Nam đến năm 2030
- Cuộc chạy đua năng lượng mới – Phát triển mặt trời nhân tạo
- EOR 2019: Năng lượng điện Việt Nam vẫn phụ thuộc vào than đá và thuỷ điện
Tiếp tục đọc “Việt Nam hoàn toàn có thể là quốc gia “dẫn dắt” điện gió ngoài khơi trong khu vực”
BlackRock Warns Korea’s Power Giant on Overseas Coal Plant Push
(Bloomberg) — BlackRock Inc. has challenged Korea Electric Power Corp. over plans to invest in new coal-fired power plants in Vietnam and Indonesia.
The world’s top asset manager raised concerns over “several controversial coal projects” with a South Korean utility, including in meetings in the first quarter, it said in a report last month. BlackRock “contacted the CEO seeking a clear strategic rationale for its investments in coal energy,” it said, without naming the company.
Kepco, as the utility is known, confirmed Thursday that it received a letter from BlackRock, which it said requested fuller disclosure of its planned involvement in new coal-fired plants overseas.
Tiếp tục đọc “BlackRock Warns Korea’s Power Giant on Overseas Coal Plant Push”
The coronavirus will not be fatal for China’s Belt and Road Initiative but it will strike a heavy blow
Illustration: Craig Stephens
Suddenly, a highly infectious virus has become China’s most prominent export. What began on January 3, when China
44 cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, has become the Covid-19 global pandemic. Wuhan, the manufacturing centre that helped to power China’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative, has become the epicentre of a health crisis
many of those projects.
The corridors that facilitate the flow of goods can be conduits for pathogens and disease. As Covid-19 spreads, is the Belt and Road Initiative at risk of becoming an infection thoroughfare?
Covid-19 has given us the chance to build a low-carbon future
Lockdown won’t save the world from warming, but the pandemic is an opportunity to pursue a green economic recovery
- Christiana Figueres was head of the UN climate change convention that achieved the Paris agreement in 2015
The air is clean and fresh, fish have reappeared in urban waterways, birds are frequenting uncut gardens, wild mammals are meandering through cities and greenhouse gas emissions will likely drop by an unprecedented 8% this year. Nature has clearly benefited from several months of dramatically reduced economic activity. From a climate crisis perspective, this drop in emissions is astonishingly close to the 7.6% yearly reduction in emissions that scientists have advised will be necessary during the next decade. And yet none of this is cause for celebration.
Mekong River offshoot erodes like a drill
A three kilometer section of Hau River, a branch of the Mekong, is straitened by half in width when passing through An Giang’s Chau Phu District.
Besides this natural occurrence, the operation of upstream Mekong dams and overexploitation of sand along the river has caused erosion to eat away at nearby National Highway 91, according to experts.
In the past 10 years, erosion has thrice struck this section of Hau River, with a 500 m highway stretch pulled into the water in Binh My Commune.
Most recently, another 40 m of the highway collapsed into the river on May 27 after a crack appeared four days earlier.
In August last year, a 85-meter-long area fell into the river, followed a few weeks later by a 30 m section.
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Vietnam’s Rooftop Solar Sector: Tools, Templates, and Lessons Learned for Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers
Webinar #2 Key Takeaways and Summary
On May 14, the Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group hosted its second webinar in a series of four occurring throughout May 2020.
Co-organized by the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA) and the USAID Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program (V-LEEP), the Working Group brings together corporate energy users, renewable energy project developers, investors, government representatives and supporting stakeholders seeking to increase corporate clean energy use and investment in Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s Rooftop Solar Sector: Tools, Templates, and Lessons Learned for Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers”
Mekong Infrastructure Tracker
Resources for understanding the dynamic economic, social, environmental, and political impact of development in the Mekong region
PROJECT INFO
The Mekong Infrastructure Tracker platform is the premier resource for researchers to track, monitor, and quantify the development of energy, transportation, and water infrastructure assets and the social, economic, and ecological changes they bring to South East Asia. The Mekong Infrastructure Tracker was developed with support from the USAID Mekong Safeguards activity led by The Asia Foundation, with funding provided by USAID. Find data by browsing or searching, build new geographic information products, and explore existing maps and apps.
Dialogue: Breaking Barriers in deployment of Renewable Energy in Vietnam
In the context of the global economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has strongly affected to energy enterprises. A reasonable solutions to boost a development renewable energy in Vietnam should be discussed and proposed, for contributing to partially offset the shortage of electricity source after 2020. Under the direction by Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) ), the Vietnam Business Forum Magazine in collaboration with the Vietnam Clean Energy Association will organize the Dialogue with the topic:
“RESOLUTION 55-NQ/TW BY THE POLITBURO AND SOLUTIONS FOR PROMOTION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKET IN VIETNAM”
The forum is expected to join the contribution from state management officers, investors, experts, scientists, non-governmental organizations and consumers to find out solutions timely and deliver to the authorities for the stable policy and sustainable development of the renewable energy, which is considerably potential in Vietnam.
- ORGANIZERS
- Guiding unit
– Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI)
- Organizers
– Business Forum Magazine
– Vietnam Clean Energy Association
III. TIME AND VENUE
- Time: From 13h30 – 17h00 on Friday on June 12, 2020
- Venue: VCCI Hall (7 floor), No. 9 Dao Duy Anh – Hanoi
Please take a look at the attachment and register this form as follow : https://forms.gle/3QoMBuiMmFUfPado9
For more information, please contact: Ms. Do Phuong Thanh (Hp: +84-90-4552297, email: dophuongthanhvcci@gmail.com)
How Vietnam managed to keep its coronavirus death toll at zero
By Nectar Gan, CNN Updated 0716 GMT (1516 HKT) May 30, 2020
(CNN)When the world looked to Asia for successful examples in handling the novel coronavirus outbreak, much attention and plaudits were paid to South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
But there’s one overlooked success story — Vietnam. The country of 97 million people has not reported a single coronavirus-related death and on Saturday had just 328 confirmed cases, despite its long border with China and the millions of Chinese visitors it receives each year.
This is all the more remarkable considering Vietnam is a low-middle income country with a much less-advanced healthcare system than others in the region. It only has 8 doctors for every 10,000 people, a third of the ratio in South Korea, according to the World Bank.
Tiếp tục đọc “How Vietnam managed to keep its coronavirus death toll at zero”
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