George Clooney won the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at last night’s Emmy’s. He reminds us to keep the spotlight burning on the people and places that need it most, even after the cameras have gone away.

If you have ten minutes of free time. THIS IS NUTS.
Watch.

Via Ted

Nike(RED) is continuing their raising of funds and awareness, with the new video
envisioning a world without AIDS. International soccer (football) star Didier Drogba stars in the short film.

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.

Read the full article here.

It’s been more than a month since an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 people and blew out an undersea well that continues to gush oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In the following weeks, there have been attempts to contain and control the scope of the environmental damage.

But so far none have been successful.

Before I post this article, here are some Gulf Coast Oil spill resource and volunteer sites. Do your part and volunteer…this is a REALLY big deal. Somebody has to do it.

http://www.volunteerlouisiana.gov/

Environmental and Protection Agency – BP Spill

Deepwater Oil Spill Response Resource site

The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming, and to improve its bargaining position against the prospect of a nuclear Iran.

Though I don’t have anyone close to me battling cancer or that has battled cancer…so many close friends have lost loved ones to the disease. Fuck cancer.

Support the movement. letsfcancer.com

A short documentary on the inhabitants of Tokyo’s Miyashita Park and Nike’s plans to expel them.

Via Freshness.