Tag: Developing Nations - Page 6
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The Best Green Cars and Technology From Michelin's 2010 Challenge Bibendum Show
French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo
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Pikolinos, a Spanish Shoe Company Works with Maasai Women in Kenya
Years ago we wrote about the Spanish shoe company Pikolinos when they obtained the EU flower label. Since then they have made a stronger statement about their environmental commitment. This summer collection takes their sustainable
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People Provide Missing Piece in Biodiversity Puzzle
The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are
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Getting Developing Nations on a Greener Path Without Creating a New Renewable Energy 'Colonialism'
No matter how much it might help the environment for fewer nations to produce and consume at U.S.-style levels, slowing global
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11 Potentially World-changing Projects Tackling Climate Change (Slideshow)
In its new short-film documentary series Global Ideas, Germany-based news broadcaster Deutsche Welle draws attention to smart sustainability projects all over the world: island conservation in Micronesia, reforestation in
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11 Potentially World-changing Projects Tackling Climate Change
Around the world, visionaries have launched potentially world-changing projects to help combat climate change. Germany-based news broadcaster Deutsche Welle shines the spotlight on these innovative climate and sustainability endeavors -- from conserving b
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Six Bikers + 3,000 kilometers = One Huge Blow to Global Poverty
Biking to make the world a better, greener place can mean commuting on two wheels instead of four. Or taking a ride for exercise and ditching
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Canid 'Cures' Threaten World's Wild Dog Populations
In some cultures, if a child gets chicken pox, his mother doesn't cook up a big pot of soup to make him feel better --
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Bolivia to Have a Mother Nature Ministry, Held Accountable For Enforcing Cochabamba Declaration
Take this as a sign of how wide a gap exists when it comes to the international discussion of climate change: While the US Congress runs away from any notion of calling acting on climate
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Bolivia's President: "Capitalism Dies, or Earth Dies"
Climate Change Conference Kicks Off in Bolivia For anyone who thought the proceedings of COP-15 last December were a bit sleepy, the World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth may be better suited to your tastes. The meeting,
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Bright Ideas in Earthquake-Safe, Ecofriendly Building
Growing up in California, I was never really scared of earthquakes -- they happened frequently and most caused little, if any,
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Seeds of Hope in Afghanistan: 25,000-Specimen Herbarium Restored at Kabul University
Thousands of preserved plant specimens -- key to protecting important food crops, and overall biodiversity, in Afghanistan --
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Economic Growth Had Little To Do With Increases In Human Development: UNDP
Right up front, I warn you that this one is sort of wonky. But everyone should really pay attention as the implications of economists George Molina and Mark Purser of the UNDP's research are pretty big. Times of India
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Eco-Certified Paper Razing Sumatran Orangutans' Rainforest Homes, Displacing Indigenous Peoples
European consumers of Golden Plus and Lucky Boss brand copy paper got an unpleasant surprise this week when a federation of EU environmental groups announced that the
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Developing Nations From Morocco to Mexico Stepping Up Their Renewable Energy Plans
Don't say COP15 amounted to totally nothing... Renewable Energy World has an interesting run down of what 25 of the developing nations are doing in terms of National Appropriate Mitigations Actions in the wake of the
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Climate Change 'Solves' Political Dispute As Bay of Bengal Island Vanishes Under Rising Seas
A nearly three-decade-old political dispute in the Bay of Bengal seems to have finally been resolved, though likely not in the way any of the parties
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Lord Stern Says Rich Nations' Arrogance Did In COP15
A new piece over at the BBC details Lord Nicholas Stern's views on the positive and negative outcomes of COP15. The positive are pretty much familiar: It may not have been quite what had been hoped for, but it was a step
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Tar Sands Are Misplaced Money - Same Amount Could Decarbonize Europe or Lift Nations Out of Poverty
I hope I need not tell you that the development of the Canadian tar sands is an unmitigated environmental disaster. We've gone over that one at least a dozen times. But what we haven't covered is the fact that the
