Tag: Poverty - Page 12
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Adam Werbach on the Burst of the Green Bubble (Part Two)
Image via Saatchi and Saatchi S Greenwashing, says Adam Werbach, has run its course and is on the verge of finally dying off. This message comes from the citadel of green marketing, Saatchi & Saatchi S, of which Werbach is now chief. The death of
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Adam Werbach on the Burst of the Green Bubble (Part One)
Image via Saatchi and Saatchi S Though "an organizer at heart," Adam Werbach has become an iconoclast in environmental circles. Werbach got started young, presiding over the Sierra Club when most people his age were unpaid interns. His "death of
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Climate Change Means Hunger, Disaster, Disease Will Be the New Normal: Oxfam
A new report from Oxfam tries to put a human face on the suffering that climate change will cause in the future, even if we muster the political
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Climate Change to Make the World Lazier, Study Finds
Climate change is causing weather patterns to grow more severe, sure, and sea levels are rising. Such consequences of global climate change are well known--but here's an effect of climate change that few consider: it will make workers
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India Won't Commit to Binding Emissions Reductions - Which is Why Rich Countries Must Make Deeper Cuts
Add India to the list of developing nations that will not be signing on to binding emissions reductions targets at December's COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen. That's the word coming from India's environment
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To Donate, or Recreate: Where Should Your Old Jeans Go?
Next time you're home, look around your closet. Your attic. How many pairs of jeans do you have there, unworn for months, years, decades even? I have four. Aside from the ones you keep for "some day" when you're skinny again
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How Development is Hurting, Not Helping, China's Poor (Video)
China's biggest defense of its massive greenhouse gas emissions is its need to develop like West has, mostly in order to lift its people out of poverty.
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Author of Whole Earth Catalog Favors Nuclear, GMOs, and Geoengineering at Off-Site TED Conference
On June 3rd, TreeHugger was able to attend TED@State, a one-day mini-conference sponsored by the US State Department, and organized by the folks over at TED Conference. As part of their Global Partnership Initiative, TED@State was meant to reflect
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TerraCycle Goes Global, Rides the Big Business Wave to Brazil
This week, TerraCycle officially launched in Brazil! The new global launch comes just six months after launching with Frito-Lay in the US, and now the expansion into Brazil - with other countries to follow - makes an important
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The Incredible Story of Conflict Mineral Mining (Slideshow)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, scene of the deadliest conflict since World War II, remains mired in violence in significant part because of the international demand for electronic products that requires minerals found in the
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How to Make Just About Damn Near Anything... Last Longer
Duct tape is wonderful stuff! While there are some individuals who will tell you that you can fix just about anything with it, the best way to ensure your things last a long time is through plain old fashioned common sense and
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Solar Cooking, Electric and Heat: SolSource 3-in-1
Eliminating harmful stove emissions is just one benefit of the SolSource 3-in-1. Image credit: One Earth Designs Revolutionary Light-weight 3-in-1 Solar Energy Device It's no secret that solar power has tremendous applications in remote, cash poor
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Peepoople: Portable, Affordable Sanitation for Everybody
Image credit: Peepoople Hygenic, Biodegradable Single-use Toilets for the Developing World It's no great secret that sanitation and clean drinking water are major challenges in much of the world. But, like the Life Straw or Freeplay's self-powered
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Biochar Fund Project Gets Big Financial Boost from Congo Basin Forest Fund
The biochar buzz continues: Biochar Fund has announced that it and its Congolese partner ADAPEL has been selected as one of the six
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Climate Change to Cause "Cultural Genocide" for Australia's Aborigines
Just as a band of Carteret Islanders are abandoning their homes due to the effects of climate change--becoming the world's first climate change refugees--word has come that rising sea levels and more severe weather patterns may claim an
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Frances Moore Lappé On How We Can End Hunger On A Penny A Day
A couple of months ago I posted about Frances Moore Lappé's article in Yes! Magazine about civic initiatives in Belo Horizonte that are
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Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle, Relate: A Post-Earth Day Manifesto
Environmental Journalist Simran Sethi, fresh from her appearance on Oprah and in the wake of Earth Week, reflects of the fourth "R": the critical component that relationships of all varieties play in greening the world with justice for
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Should the Color of Cars be Regulated?
John tells us that a light colored car can be as much as 20% more efficient in air conditioning country. That's a lot. Should California or our new Car-Dealer-In-Chief do something about this?
