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U.S. State Department - "wPOWER: Promoting Women's Critical Role in Clean Energy Solutions to Climate Change"
Submitted by Minuteman on Wed, 2013-11-20 06:26
Link here. Excerpt:
'In honor of “Gender Day” at the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-19), the United States is highlighting its actions to harness the potential of women and women’s networks to increase the use of clean energy technologies, which in turn helps reduce climate change. The Department of State launched the Partnership on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Renewables (“wPOWER”) in January 2013. wPOWER aims to empower more than 8,000 women clean energy entrepreneurs across East Africa, Nigeria and India who will deliver clean energy access to more than 3.5 million people over the next three years.
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Globally, more than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity, and at least 2.7 billion people lack access to clean cookstoves and fuels. While not the primary source of climate pollution, inefficient lighting and cooking contribute to climate change and the degradation of natural resources. In off-grid communities, women are the primary users of clean technologies like solar lamps and clean cookstoves and are at the forefront of adopting the use of new technologies. wPOWER is working to unlock this largely untapped potential of women and women's groups to help fill the “last mile” gap in the supply chain to reach areas lacking energy access.'
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What a coincidence!
"Gender Day" from the UN falls on the *exact same day* as International Men's Day!
Can you beat that? Wonder how that happened??
For those wondering, IMD was started in 1999. This UN Gender Day (first I've heard of it) was started in 1975, originally to be marked on March 8. However apparently either this was too inconvenient a date for too many people or it clashed with local calendars' other special days. So the UN changed the idea: it can be marked on *any* day a government chooses to. This means it can be any day, any time. Any number of times, too? See:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/iwd/history.html
So just as IMD starts getting some press, positive or negative, suddenly, the UN is marking it on *the very same day* as IMD. How about that!
Matt: "Can you beat that?"
Yes.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/un-declares-november-19-world-toilet-day/article15499788/
OMG!
Wow. To anyone who does not believe male rights and freedoms are under attack by the powers that be, consider what Matt and Kratch have just posted here. Do you really think that if men were respected by society as much as gender ideologues claim, that IMD would be relabelled 'gender day' or 'international toilet day'? Would it not be possible to get past one father's day without coming across two or three dozen articles shitting on men? Why does the world have such a problem with men having a day for themselves? WTF?!
On a side note, today in English we were discussing a poem about conscription. Now, I've known from the start of the class that this professor is a feminist, because he made us read Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour. It is a lovely tale about a woman who finds out her husband is dead and like any loving wife, rejoices. He also made us read Trifles, a play in which women are helping their male colleagues investigate a murder in which a women killed her husband. The women find a dead bird, and assume that the husband killed the bird and that set the women off so she murdered him. Then they try to hide the bird so that the wife won't be convicted. And to add to that, he also made us read a feminist novel called Changes: A Love Story, about a woman who is unhappy because she thinks her husband is too demanding. Sexually frustrated, he forces himself on her one day. She later divorces him, and marries into a polygamous relationship. Then she's upset because her new husband doesn't spend every waking second of his life seeking attention from her, like her first husband. The only theme I could draw from it is that women have no idea what the hell they want.
Anyway, you would think that he would mention how forced conscription is oppresive to men, right? Nope, instead he mentions how there are few women in combat, and how that's opressive to women. *Facepalm* Thank God this term is just about over.
Well, at least I got a B on the essay I wrote explaining how Trifles demonstrates how justice is prone to bias.
Yep, that does it
Well, we can't control the UN's misandrist efforts to sink IMD. But I agree at least that the world does need to get its sanitation act together in terms of human body waste. It's behind a lot of avoidable disease. [This is actually a pet project of the Gates Foundation; can't say I like everything they do (e.g.: supporting mass-circumcisions), but I can agree with that.]
Maybe IMD needs to be moved, or become highly-mobile, like "Gender Day". It could also be kind of rotational, such as the second Thursday of every X month (like done with many voting days here in the US, or some religious holidays). That way, it's a lot harder to co-opt. I suppose they can always shadow that approach too, but at least it'd make it undeniably clear what they're doing.
Agreed.
I too agree with the effort to improve sanitation. Indeed, you are right about it improving the health of many. After all, bubonic plague's severity was so vast because fecal matter was so ubiquitous. But did they really have to choose IMD?
I like your idea. They should make IMD the nth (day of week) of every (month). If anything, it might serve to throw off the journalists so their drivel doesn't get published the same day as IMD.