I’ve learned a lot as an intern with Google.org’s health efforts the last few months. Just this week I learned about a new collaboration between Google.org grantee HealthMap – the same group mentioned in our previous post Swine flu near you? – and …
(Cross-posted from the LatLong blog)According to the UN, the recent floods in Pakistan have affected over 4 million individuals – and the human toll continues to grow. Disease is an ever-increasing risk as relief agencies rush to the aid of those who …
Down a remote alleyway in Dar es Salaam, Gregory Mchopa picks up his paint brush and studies the empty canvas. He closes his eyes and visualizes his next painting, whether that be a group of Maasai women collecting water from a well, or villagers danc…
The world has lost a brilliant scientist, a dynamic communicator, and a caring soul. Dr. Stephen Schneider, a Stanford Professor and a global leader in climate change science died Monday morning of a heart attack.Steve was an important mentor and frie…
It’s flu season. Well, below the equator, it’s flu season. As we turn towards summer heat in the northern hemisphere, half of the globe has colder weather and more flu activity on the way. Just as we expanded Google Flu Trends to much of Europe la…
Today we are excited to offer a new way for many more people to access Google PowerMeter: our new Featured Device partner Current Cost – the largest global supplier of real time displays for monitoring energy use. Having already sold one million energ…
When creating Google Flu Trends, we decided early on to make all of our estimates of flu activity available to the public for download. We’re always excited to hear about researchers using this data and recently learned about a study which compares G…
(Translated from the Google China Blog)Yesterday, when a powerful earthquake struck the Qinghai province in Western China, Googlers within China and internationally mobilized to see how we could help with disaster response.We are working on several too…
(Cross-posted from the Google Public Policy Blog)We all receive an electricity bill once a month that is hard to decipher besides the total amount due. What if we instead had access to more useful and actionable information about our energy consumption…
The international community likes to define Liberia’s recent history primarily through two events: its fourteen-year civil war, which ended in 2003, and the work of the country’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first democratically elected fe…
At Google, we are encouraged to experiment and tinker to see if there is a better way of doing things. We want to encourage others in the energy monitoring space to do the same. To this end, I’d like to introduce our most recent strategic partner Micr…
Google PowerMeter now gives you the ability to share your data with others. What does this mean? Everyone in your household can now activate Google PowerMeter on her own personalized iGoogle page so families and roommates can all track their energy c…
We are pleased to share with you that the Global Health Corps (GHC) is now accepting applications for their 2010-2011 class. GHC sent their inaugural class of 22 recent university graduates to complete year-long assignments in public health organizatio…
(Cross-posted from Public Policy Blog)Over the past six months we have been providing you with periodic updates and comments on the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, which is scheduled for release in mid-March. Earlier today FCC energy and environment dir…
(Cross-posted from Google’s Public Policy Blog)People often get up in settings like the international climate change conference in Copenhagen and make complicated pronouncements that leave heads spinning. Today was different. Google, GE, the Climate Gr…