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Friend of Conscious Lifestyle, Daniel Zoughbie, founder of the Global Micro-Clinic Project has been awarded the 2008 Do Something Award for his outreach to diabetics in developing countries. The UC Berkeley graduate and Marshall Scholar is currently up for the $100,000 Do Something Award grand prize for people under 25 helping change the world, which will be given out at the Teen Choice Awards. If you are under 20 years old, please vote for Daniel by doing the following:

Please go to http://www.teenchoiceawards.com/, Click on TC Partners, then Click on DO Something.org, and then Click on Daniel Zoughbie in the bottom row of videos. Please Click Vote Now below the videos, and enter your e-mail address and date of birth.
(Note: you must have a birthdate after 1988 to vote). And you can vote everyday!

To read more on the Global Micro-Clinic Project, which has set up community-based micro-clinics to help empower people in their treatment of diabetes in Palestine, Jordan, and India, please visit http://microclinicproject.org/ and The International Diabetes Federation

-Matt Werner

The inventor of the technology behind thin film solar, the hydrogen fuel cell, and the batteries used in hybrid cars spoke at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, April 8. In addition to his scientific achievements, which have led to 350 patents, and to Stan Ovshinsky being called "the modern world's most important energy visionary," Stan has been deeply concerned with the intersection between the environment, jobs, and development. Video and a podcast of his talk can be found at
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23036

Ovshinsky's main arguments in his talk sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley are that "Science must be value-driven," and that we have to act now to reverse global climate change.

Around the 25th minute of the webcast, he talks about how "It's not a fad to think about the environment. It's not something you do to make yourself feel like you're doing something right. It's an absolute necessity." Ovshinsky, an 85-year-old self-taught inventor, then goes into how he developed many of the breakthrough technologies in solar, hydrogen fuel cell, nickel metal hydride batteries, and even the field of physics that makes writeable CDs and DVDs possible.

Stan Ovshinsky is given 2 introductions, and his talk begins about 21 minutes into the webcast.

For more information, see the webcast at http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23036
And UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies at http://clas.berkeley.edu