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2008, UN year of the Potato, Planet Earth, Sanitation & EU year of Intercultural Dialogue

category international | miscellaneous | other press author Friday February 15, 2008 00:40author by 2008

Jayzhus in a turban eating mash for our sins.

Feb 12 . UNESCO launches year of "planet earth".
http://www.insnet.org/ins_headlines.rxml?id=6181&photo=

EU year of intercultural dialogue.
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/eac/dialogue/dialogue_en.html

UN year of the potato. http://www.potato2008.org/en/potato/varieties.html

I reckon it's all about jobs. I don't really believe the tiny percentage of teenage school-kids who write off to either the UN or EU for material for projects & extra credits really justify the expenditure of utter crap.

feel free to add your favourite "2008 year of ______" to the comments. It's not all US elections, rats & Olympics.

year of the frog
http://www.amphibianark.org/yearofthefrog.htm

UN year of sanitation
http://esa.un.org/iys/

Linux year of the desktop.
http://www.linux.com/feed/126573

2008 year of open data
http://www.opendatacommons.org/2008/01/03/2008-year-of-...data/

& in the UK they will be celebrating 2008 the year of reading.
http://www.yearofreading.org.uk/

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86263

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