He can not deny that we are in a very difficult market at the moment. The constant “Doom,” as the trade press and do their best to ease the minds of even the best of us.

The best cut sector in recent months, civil engineering is no exception. In the case of some private companies for selection of “recruit from within” before looking for an external source, are mixed with a touch of nervousness job seekers are reluctant to her toes into the market dip, it is to ignore any possibility that there are fewer free points.

According to a recent figure reported by Sky News, there were 14,849 jobs lost in June 2008 to November 2008 in civil engineering. Some of the UK’s leading engineering consulting firms have all their jobs over the last quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, lost the states of New Civil Engineer (NCE) new.

In addition, a continuous rise in prices for steel and cement, oil on the fire. The Economic Advisor to the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA), Jim Turner, confirmed that its investigation in January 2008 showed the ever rising cost of materials. He believes that this is certainly a difficult time because customers will not be tolerant, the higher bid prices, and this could lead to a reduction in workload. » Read more: The UK’s Civil Engineering Industry in Global Recession

Agriculture is the livelihood, directly or indirectly, three quarters of the world’s poor in rural areas.

The 2008 food crisis and subsequent global financial crisis has made the extreme vulnerability of developing countries to fluctuations in food prices and supplies to the test.

But the effect was not only to developing countries farmers – it affects consumers worldwide food shortages, such as rice in Thailand, and higher prices.

In November 2008, Egypt – UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) sponsored the first international conference on sharing innovative agribusiness solutions – from farms to markets: the provision of know-how and finance.

If the activities of the conference can be argued that this is an initiative to help small farmers could possibly be in the developing world, consumers around the world and the whole planet.

“Our vision is a sustainable development”

In his opening speech, Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish, founder of the SEKEM that sustainable development could our needs and desires, without meeting the opportunities for future generations …… but we must learn the basic principles of ecology.

“….. Ecological read means understanding the principles of organization of ecological communities, including our educational communities ¬, politics and business. While the principles of education, administration and policy principles of ecology. “

A few SEKEM » Read more: Signs of Global Sanity? Sharing of Innovative Agricultural Solutions to Help Farmers and Consumers

As the Post’s web site: The Great Transition Initiative is a collaboration of scientists and activists who share a common commitment to solving major problems facing humanity: poverty, security and environment. His job is to imagine, assess, and in front of a great transition to a global future of enriched lives, justice, solidarity and a healthy planet. It takes the slogan of progressives all over the world, that another world is possible, but proposes that the world must first present plausible as a creative project man.

This report includes the largest weight and the severity of the possibility of solving sociological problems and strategies of our global society through the emergence of a single moral community, a cosmopolitan group if you like, or citizens of the cosmos. The unprecedented growth in GCM (Global Citizens Movement) in the second half of the 20th Century is seen suggested that the tip of the iceberg in terms of a profound change in public engagement and public relations, and is the largest impact of the rise of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide.

Kriegman said that the threats to our existence is very real. In considering the possibilities of environmental degradation, nuclear proliferation, global terrorist networks, new military technologies and the threat of pandemics, we recall the statement of Bertrand Russell’s co-existence or no existence made. » Read more: Dawn of the Cosmopolitan – The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement