On 12 February 2009, 200 international cities hosted a Twestival to bring Twitter communities together in an effort to raise money for charity: water. Twestival was organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of the money raised from these events went directly to support charity: water projects. By rallying together under short timescales, for a [...]
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Twestival. Tweet. Meet. Give.
Posted in third world assistance, water conservation on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Twestival Donation Water Cloud
Posted in third world assistance on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Twestival Donation Water Cloud. Donate to charity: water, and get your name in Pixels; the most generous donors will appear on the Official T-Shirt.
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Tweet the amount you want to donate starting from $20. Example: “p$50 @twestival”. The more you donate, the bigger [...]
Google Earth Outreach – Showcase
Posted in water facts on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This fascinating geographical visualization created by David Tryse, illustrates how all the world’s water would appear if gathered into a sphere. Alongside the ‘Total Water’ sphere, are several other smaller spheres, each one decreasing in size to represent other water sources – for example the amount of water found in soil moisture. These kinds of [...]
Time Bomb
Posted in pollution, third world assistance on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The site charity:water has excellent videos here. See charity: water promo featuring “Time Bomb” by Beck.
How to Make an Entire Sea Disappear
Posted in pollution on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Aral seas road to obscurity began in the 1960’s when water was diverted to irrigate farm land. Cotton production was the name of the game. Millions of liters of water which would normally replenish the sea were being used to grow crops in the surrounding desert regions. Today the two rivers are often so [...]
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