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Responsible Charity’s Work In India

July 30, 2017 / 11 Comments
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Here’s to RESPONSIBLE CHARITY and their work in Kolkata, India by Carl Kruse I have written before about my friend Hemley Gonzalez’s organization, “Responsible Charity,” (Carl Kruse blog) and the work done helping those less fortunate in Kolkata.   Unlike other aid groups, Responsible Charity is secular and humanistic, where science, reason and compassion come together … [Read more…]

Posted in: Hemley Gonzalez, India, Nonprofits, Responsible Charity Tagged: carl kruse, Charity, Hemley Gonzalez, Nonprofits, Responsible Charity

Summer Solstice

June 21, 2017 / 4 Comments
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Here’s To A Great Summer Solstice By Carl Kruse The ebb and flow of the seasons is one of life’s constants and today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day, shortest night of the year, marking the beginning of summer.  Some say it marks mid-summer, but no matter. Water flows, flowers bloom, trees sashay, the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Seasons, Summer Tagged: carl kruse, Seasons, summer, summer solstice

Another Memorial Day Wish

May 30, 2017 / 9 Comments
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Yet Another Memorial Day Wish By Carl Kruse It is Memorial Day once again in the U.S.A., that time the nation honors its soldiers who died in combat. As I do every Memorial Day, I take some time to reflect on war and death, wishing that in some future — which seems impossibly distant — … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays Tagged: carl kruse, holidays, memorial day, reflections

Svalbard Seed Vault Flooding

May 21, 2017 / 9 Comments

Melting Permafrost Floods Svalbard Seed Vault By Carl Kruse On Friday, March 19, a stream of nervous reports warned that water had entered the doomsday seed repository known as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.   Temporary panic ensued because Svalbard is humanity’s last line of defense against a major catastrophe or doomsday situation that might imperil … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Science, Svalbard Tagged: carl kruse, Norway, Seed Vault, Svalbard

March for Science? March On.

April 18, 2017 / 5 Comments
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The March for Science by Carl Kruse Some scientist friends have come out against the upcoming March For Science, saying that while good intentioned, the march runs the risk of trivializing and politicizing science, turning scientists into another group embroiled in the culture wars and further alienating science from a certain segment of the world’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Events, Marches, Nonprofits, Science Tagged: carl kruse, Events, March For Science, Science

Imagine If We All Loved and Respected Each Other

March 25, 2017 / 7 Comments

Carl Kruse And imagine the love and respect this man deserves and didn’t really get: https://carlkruse.org/carl-kruse-kazhir-khan/ And for a touch of love in a different vein — some poems from the Carl Kruse archive: https://carlkruse.org/poems-carl-kruse/

Posted in: Beautiful Words, Carl Kruse Tagged: carl kruse, Love, Wishes

Happy Vernal Equinox

March 20, 2017 / 4 Comments
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Spring Is Here by Carl Kruse The seasons are always turning but there are special moments and today we pass through one of them, the vernal equinox, or the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. The center of the sun today aligns with the equator, and day and night — light and dark … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Seasons, Spring Tagged: carl kruse, Seasons, Spring, Vernal Equinox

More Earth-like Exoplanets Found

February 23, 2017 / 10 Comments

A Fantastic Time For Discovery, and for SETI by Carl Kruse The journal NATURE’s website reportedly crashed after it announced the NASA  discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a star near us, some 40 light years away in the Aquarius constellation. The star known as TRAPPIST-1 was observed by a Belgian research team with data … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Science, SETI, Space Exploration Tagged: carl kruse, Exoplanets, NASA, SETI, Space Exploration, Trappist-1

Carl Kruse Reminder – PLN Fundraiser To Protect Lands In PR Coming Up

February 7, 2017 / 3 Comments

Fundraiser At the Home Of Maria Celeste Takes Place This Thursday By Carl kruse A reminder that the fundraiser to benefit “Para La Naturaleza,” takes place this Thursday, February 9th at the Miami residence of Maria Celeste Arraras. (See original Carl Kruse  Nonprofit Fundraiser for Para La Naturaleza here). Para La Naturaleza seeks to protect … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Environment, Nonprofits, Puerto Rico, Science Tagged: carl kruse, Environment, Maria Celeste Arraras, Para La Naturaleza, Puerto Rico

Find Your 1,000 True Fans

February 3, 2017 / 8 Comments
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Whatsoever You Do –- Find Your 1,000 True Fans. By Carl Kruse A friend today asked me for a good book on marketing, as if I would know, but I then remembered the impact Kevin Kelly’s essay “1,000 True Fans,” had on me some years ago and suggested to my friend he start his research … [Read more…]

Posted in: First Steps, Marketing Tagged: Branding, Business, carl kruse, Kelly, Marketing

Carl Kruse: Support Land Conservation in Puerto Rico

January 27, 2017 / 3 Comments

Support of Land Conservation in Puerto Rico By Carl Kruse I am delighted to share with  you news from my friend Maria Celeste Arraras who is involved in preserving the natural and historic charms of Puerto Rico, and in promoting sustainable development and ecotourism on the Island.  Mari’s efforts focus on an organization called Para la … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Environment, Events, Nonprofits, Puerto Rico Tagged: carl kruse, Environmental Protection, Land Conservation, Maria Celeste Arraras, Para La Naturaleza, Puerto Rico

Princeton University Global Forum in Berlin

January 22, 2017 / 6 Comments
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Upcoming Princeton Forum In Berlin By Carl Kruse On March 20-21, 2017 the  Princeton University Global Forum presents in Berlin: “SOCIETY 3.0+: CAN LIBERTY SURVIVE THE DIGITAL AGE?” Presentations: Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Christopher Eisgruber, President, Princeton University Brad Smith, President, Microsoft Neelie Kroes, Member of the Board, Salesforce Roger Dingledine, Project Leader, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Berlin, Carl Kruse, Events Tagged: Berlin, carl kruse, Conference, Princeton University

Carl Kruse Celebrates MLK Day

January 15, 2017 / 3 Comments

Re-reading A Letter From A Birmingham Jail by Carl Kruse In what has become now a tradition, ( see Carl Kruse Talks About Martin Luther King ), every Martin Luther King Day I re-read King’s now classic “Letter From A Birmingham Jail,” an essay written as a response to King’s critics who at the time … [Read more…]

Posted in: Carl Kruse, Holidays, Politics Tagged: carl kruse, martin luther king, martin luther king day, nonviolent resistance, politics, racism

Spotlight: Urban Paradise Guild

December 2, 2016 / 4 Comments
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UPG Sends Seeds To Families In Haiti by Carl Kruse The Urban Paradise Guild (UPG) headed by Sam Van Leer is a nonprofit group based in Southern Florida that is working to bring back natural habitat and make our urban environment more green and livable.   The group re-introduces  native plants into local areas, organizes clean-ups, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Haiti, Nonprofits, Urban Paradise Guild Tagged: carl kruse, Haiti, Nonprofit work, reforestation, Seeds, UPG, Urban Paradise Guild

From Carl Kruse: Help SETI@HOME

December 1, 2016 / 2 Comments

SETI Project  Can Use Our Help by Carl Kruse One of my favorite nonprofit groups is the SETI Institute, which is the world’s top organization that is looking for life elsewhere in the universe. I love SETI because it’s the chance to get involved in answering one of humanity’s last remaining big questions – Is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Nonprofits, Science Tagged: carl kruse, Radio Astronomy, Science, SETI, The SETI Institute
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