But volunteers aren't free -- somebody needs to recruit them and manage them -- and charities often struggle for resources, especially during down economies.
The Earth-Life SciEONe Institute and EON can, and should, serve as "safe harbors" for scientists and projects in OoL that have traditionally remained on the periphery of many disciplines or have struggled for resources to make progress.
In an informal conversation with this author, a leading British medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer therapy reported similar attitudes: medical researchers who wanted to undertake research on lung cancer, he suggested, always struggled for resources because finding cures and treatments for other cancers is seen as more important, for lung cancer is perceived as a self-inflicted disease.
Canada's navy has defended Canadian interests in home waters and overseas since the early 20th century despite often struggling for ships and resources under sometimes neglectful governments.
Morocco and the Polisario Front, which are struggling for control of resource-rich Western Sahara, agreed to hold direct talks for the first time under the terms of a unanimously passed United Nations Security Council resolution.
In Taiz, residents who already struggled for basic resources such as fuel or water before the war are scrambling to stay alive.
The rise of China that Martin Jacques charts in his indispensable new book will transform global geopolitics, creating an international system in which the US is only one great power among several that are struggling for control of the world's resources.
A struggle for resources will emerge between generations.
It was Dr. Haig who argued in the 1990s that pregnancy was in part a biological struggle for resources between the mother and unborn child.
Instead of encouraging inter-ethnic understanding and solidarity, leaders have set communities against each other in a struggle for resources and power, making it difficult for citizens to join together for the national interest.
