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A message from RCAP for World Water Day (March 22)

Posted Mon, 2011/03/21 - 3:24pm by RCAP

March 22 every year is World Water Day. It is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. A website started in 2001 serves as a community space and repository where people can upload their WWD event activities and reports.

USDA invites applications for grants to connect rural communities to broadband service

Posted Thu, 2011/03/10 - 12:39pm by RCAP

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2011 (USDA) – USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator Jonathan Adelstein today announced that USDA is accepting applications for grants to provide broadband access in rural communities currently without broadband service. Joining him to make the announcement was Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

Daily Yonder blog: State of the (Rural) Union

Posted Mon, 2011/01/31 - 10:45am by RCAP

The Daily Yonder blog asked several people to chime in about President Obama’s State of the Union address on Jan. 25.

Read the full post to see what was in Obama's address for rural America.