Tag: Developing Nations - Page 8
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Exquisite Afghan Rugs Woven with Social Entrepreneurship
Images: Arzu Studio HopeWhat could holler good taste and social conscience like a fair trade rug designed by architect Zaha Hadid? Since 2003, a non-profit called Arzu Studio Hope has been working with women weavers in Afghanistan to create high-end
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Willie Smits on Regrowing the Indonesian Rainforest and Harvesting Biofuels
Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems
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See You in Cochabamba! Evo Morales Plans Bolivian Alternative Climate Summit for April
Not wasting any time, Bolvian president Evo Morales has announced that his nation will be hosting an alternative climate summit in the city of Cochabamba on April 20-22, the New York Times reports. Morales is calling on activists,
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Brazil Signs Into Law Bill to Cut CO2 Emissions 39%
Strengthening the pledges made on the heals of COP15 earlier this month, Brazilian President Lula signed a bill into law on Tuesday that require his nation's greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced 39 percent by 2020--called the
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Save a Life and Get Free Basketball Tickets From Nothing but Nets
The new anti-malaria campaign, Nothing but Nets, is out just in time for the holiday season and really is the gift that keeps on giving. For a very small donation, you can save a life, or two, gift a gift to a friend, and get two free tickets to a
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Sheila Kennedy and the Portable Light Project
Not your typical architecture firm, Sheila Kennedy and her cohorts at KVA MATx are stripping apart the built environment and reassembling it with an eye for flexibility. Her vision: a world of distributed power in which solar potential is woven into the
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24, 24, 24 Hours to Go at COP15 & Where Are We Heading?
There's one more day to go here at COP15 things in many ways seem to come off the rails. There is virtually no more NGO access to the Bella Center, with several groups getting outright banned. Entrance queues which took up
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Madagascar Legally Exports Illegally Logged Rosewood
A new poster jointly produced by researchers in Madagascar and the US graphically depicts how politically turmoil in Madagascar during 2009, coupled with poor political decisions have allowed for the legal export of illegally logged rosewood. Little is
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African Nations Lead a "Walkout" at Copenhagen; Talks Continue (Video)
African countries raised the "nuclear option" this morning in Copenhagen, suspending climate talks in protest of wealthy nations' resistance to discuss binding emissions reductions. Though African nations have walked out for the day, they are not
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100 Nations Call to Keep World Temperature from Rising 1.5 C
Much of the news currently out of Copenhagen seems to be coming from developing nations--100 of them just banded together to call from stronger cuts from industrialized nations, in order to keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees
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Helping Poor Nations Switch to Clean Energy Could Bring a $100 Billion Renewable Boom
Two of the key questions in negotiating a global climate treaty in Copenhagen right now is how much funding rich nations should be giving industrializing ones to help them develop and produce clean energy. Rich nations like the US and
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Survey Reveals the Climate of Concern About Warming
A survey was published yesterday by GlobeScan measuring how people of various countries felt about climate change and the actions that should be taken to combat it. Overall, "very serious" concern for climate change worldwide is up to nearly two-thirds
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Turning Gas Stations Into Green Spaces in Indonesia
Around the world, cars and the infrastructure devoted to them -- highways, parking lots, gas stations -- have covered open space over with asphalt. But with the closure last month of the first of
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Education is Very Green, Yet 300 Million of World's Schoolchildren Don't Have Clean Toilets or Water
Yesterday we heard that India announced a new program that aims to bring more efficient biomass cookstoves into homes of some 800+ million people who rely on them, bringing big health benefits. Well, time to switch
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Kona AfricaBikes Now Help Kids Get to School in Gambia
We reported last year on the Kona AfricaBike program where Kona donated a bike to HIV/AIDS workers in Africa for every two bikes purchased. The bikes then go to help HIV/AIDS workers deliver medicine and
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Developed World Timber Demand Threatens to Undermine REDD Forest Protection Program
It often seems like the answer (or at least part of it) to many environmental problems: Reduce consumption of natural resources. And when it comes to reducing deforestation the Environmental Investigation Agency says that
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ShadePlex Fabric Solar Panels Provide Flexibility and Fun
Sounds like something little suzie homemaker would come up with - put fabric on solar panels and offer different colors so customers will like them for their aesthetic appeal. Actually, maybe this idea isn't too far off the
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Buy a Solar Cooker and Offset 1 Ton of CO2
Image via: Solar Cookers International Solar Cookers International has come up with a new program just in time for the holidays that allows you to give a gift, help out someone less fortunate, clear the air of harmful emissions AND offset one ton of
