To transform the whole planet with its seven billion people to a sustainable path needs your help. What would you be able to do?

The world is facing a new era where nations can influence and shape world politics through their economies rarther than their militaries. The geometry of global power has become more distributed and diffuse and the challenges that the US face are becoming more complex and cross-cutting. The US is facing significant test of their leadership and new ways are needed to main the US role in the world. But, what would happen when a rising power “China” and a stablished power “US” meets and how the new political landscape in the MENA region would mean for the global political landscape? http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/hillary-clinton-calls-for-discussion-on-privacy-security-98881.html?ml=tb

Collaborative lifestyles and sharing economy are gaining momentum in the Arab countries. Used products are more fashionable as a result of the popularity of online platforms for buying and selling used goods. The use of internet and modern media are flourishing in the NENA region and the huge interests in using ICT in many society sectors, e.g. trade, business, education and tourism, open new gates for global interactions.

http://ouishare.net/2013/10/sharing-economy-gaining-momentum-in-the-arab-world/

According to HSBC the GDP in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Bahrain would be 35% lower 2014 as compared to what it would have been if the 2011 uprising didn’t happen. The uprising in the troubled countries in North Africa caused the oil-rich Gulf to further boom and become more richer. http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2013/10/09/Arab-Spring-to-cost-Middle-East-800-bln-HSBC-estimates-.html

You may have felt poor up-dating of the Blog “farideldaoushy.wordpress.com” and major interruptions in the activities. The wide-range of interests within the Blog “farideldaoushy.wordpress.com” made it necessary to up-date the layout and construction of the Blog. Also, to have own domain with representative name that reflects the content and extent. The new “Sustain-Earth.com” will also allow us to fulfill our wish to improve the communication with the visitors and readers and to provide new services. It will, also, provide platform for professionals and expertise within society sectors to share knowledge and contribute in topic discussions.

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Even if we can ignore the reality, we can never ignore its consequences. Economic models and scientific discoveries have promoted an ever accelerating consumption of the earth’s natural resources with little consideration to population growth and the associated damage of all forms of life on the Earth. Depletion of important resources, the increasing waste and pollution combined with an accelerating population have caused poverty, disease, malnutrion and above all the definite fact of an approaching total annihilation of life on the whole planet. Survival of humans and newcomers has continuously forced impoverised people to destroy their environment. It is the very nature of humans, no one can go hungry without commiting a “crime” to fill the stomach!

But what is Sustainability and can we really achieve it, when we are regularly presented with a range of the so-called “sustainable” products and “green or organic” cleaning supplies to carbon offsets. With micro-economic markets keep supplying us with so much labeled as sustainable, the term has grown to become essentially a “bubble of sustainability”, at best indicating a practice or product slightly less damaging than the conventional alternative.

Sustainability can not be achieved by un-sustainable policies that are left over to the market without having appropriate instruments on all levels and sectors to strictly define, measure and control how sustainable is sustainable. How else can we can we achieve a goal that is not well-defined and regulated!

How enough is enough? How long can we afford to go on consuming and consuming? This is not high level mathematics and it doesn’t even need a Nobel Prize in economics. This is certainly not sustainable. Oil peak, water peak, collapse of the US dollar and end of the US!

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The collapse of the dollar is predicted.

It is not about if it would come? But rather when it would happen? This is the truth that was never told. If you can ignore the reality, it would never be possible to ignore its consequences.

So, be prepared, check out the top 5 places not to be in a “Dollar Collapse”.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKB07SImil0

Energy left after the “Big Bang” was the origin of the Earth, water and all other natural resources on the earth including fossil fuel, wind-power and the solar-fuel. These are the fundamental drivers of the evolution of all forms of life on the earth. The dichotomy between natural resources and basic life-components that has facilitated our life, which seemed to us to be “endless”, promoted our consumption to the degree that we are running out of all resources. The dilemma of water and energy seems to be like the classical question “which came first, the chicken or the egg” and if they will disappear which will disappear first. We need energy to produce water and we need water to produce energy. Both resources are running out. As we are reaching Peak Oil, we also appear to approaching Peak Water. With the vanishing drivers of life, life itself will fade away. In other words, our planet is aging with us and the question who dies first!

http://www.o2env.com/news/energy-versus-water/

The MENA region is facing major challenges to meet the growing pressures on its WE “Water and Energy” resources. This would require major transformation for shaping new policies to meet the accelerating demands not only on energy but also on water. Other drivers what regards energy are high insolation rates, young and empowered workforce. Among other drivers for achieving sustainable WE-policies are increasing awareness of cost, quality, market diversity and public services.

http://www.greentechmedia.com/research/report/mena-solar-market-outlook-2013-2017

No way nowadays, anywhere around the world anyone can achieve something without education. The cry of millions or even billions of people around the world for education has never been as strong as today and would hardly become weaker. The paradox is that those who are crying for education have no instrument to get their voices heard, they have not learned how to scream after being independent for their mother’s milk.

http://m.smh.com.au/world/malala-marks-her-birthday-with-a-message-to-the-world-20130713-2pwpw.html

The global center of power and prosperity is moving to the west of the US. With such dynamic economical shift, the prospect for instability and conflicts that involve the US interest in peace, freedom and prosperity is, also, moving with it.

Asia is world’s largest and fastest-growing economy with strong evolution in its trade and technology infra-structures involving several of most economically free nations in the world. Asian-US trade is among the strongest world-wide where the US has more trade with Asia than with any other region of the world. Asian firms have huge invest in America, creating jobs, economic opportunities and increasing mutual improvements driven by more and more Asian immigration to the US.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/10/a-new-view-of-asia

Coordination of the essential components of knowledge within its three main domains “higher education – research & technology – business” is essential for achieving sustainable growth and competitiveness.

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http://www.ostina.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5996&Itemid=3377

Germany was totally destroyed after the WW-II. It has managed to re-build its self, unify its population (west snd east), be integrated in EU as a stronge and innovative player on several scales and fronts. The secret is using Education as an answer to establishing sustainable lifestyles in society. Along with many other institutions and organizations associated with the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development – to the common goal of establishing education for sustainable development in the curricula of kindergartens to universities.

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In 2100 we will be 11 000 000 000 people on the earth. What those numbers mean for the future of our overstretched planet. An innovative way to illustrate the demographic features on the earth is given here.

Education is global major challenge for many decades to come. In India alone in 2050, one billion “1000 000 000” persons will be involved in education at different levels!

“Fat” and “slim” populated areas on the earth exemplified by detailed satellite image of the Earth at night. The most densely populated areas have been magnified. Unpopulated areas have been shrunk to nothing. The dark areas are where people find it hard to access electricity, or use less of it.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/global-academy-bends-to-the-winds-of-demographic-change/2005286.article

Tempus is the European Union’s programme which supports the modernisation of higher education in the Partner Countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean region, mainly through university cooperation projects.

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/tempus/

The first Afro-American president in USA’s history is Barack Hussein Obama, but what does the normal American citizen knowns about Africa?

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Women Don’t Cry, business is my tool and when you empower a human-being economically he has strength, he has the power, he will walk with his aid “I”.

For decades women suffered and still in some cultures the only solution for a girl to survive is to get married as early as possible. Over the past two decades, the Great Lakes Region of Africa — notably Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda — has endured civil wars, ethnic conflict and even genocide. Women and girls have been specifically targeted through the systemic use of gender-based violence (GBV) during times of war and in post-conflict situations. In 2009, CARE–one of the largest relief and development agencies in the world—launched the Great Lakes Advocacy Initiative or GLAI.

GLAI seeks to protect the rights of women and girls through regional and global networks that advocate against gender based violence and for the implementation of relevant UN resolutions. This documentary is a testimony to the successes achieved and the challenges encountered since GLAI was launched. Each GLAI country has its own unique story to share.
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