Tag: Poverty - Page 8
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UK's Largest Solar Housing Project Also Tackles Fuel Poverty
Some folks may believe that solar feed-in tariffs are a subsidy for the wealthy, but it's not just the rich that are getting in on the action. Just like some pioneering solar affordable housing projects
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Is Cutting Population Easier than Cutting Consumption?
From one African activist's insistence that family planning helps women and the environment, to asking whether voluntary birth control is the cheapest answer to climate change, population seems to be a recurring theme in the blogosphere lately.
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Is Time Our Most Precious Environmental Resource?
When we talk about protecting precious resources, it can be tempting to focus almost exclusively on the physical—whether that be diminishing oil reserves or clean water. But
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Walmart Gives $2 Million to Help Food Banks Go Green
Walmart announced a new program today to help food banks around the country make energy efficiency improvements. The program will help 16 food banks in high-need areas make upgrades designed to bring lasting
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What's So Green About Saving Money? Mindfulness & Prioritization
From Vicki Robin's thoughts on your money or your life to 11 lifestyle choices that might protect against inflation, we've seen lot's of advice on specific green activities that can save you
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Big Bakery Chain Panera Embraces "Pay-What-You-Want" At Three Cafés
You might think a pay-what-you-want café could only fly in a place like Portland, Oregon, where the streets are thick with bicycles, the homeless rate is one of the nation's highest, and
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High Poverty Neighborhood Tackles Peak Oil - First "Transition Slum" Launched
Image credit: Transition Culture The Transition Movement has spread like wildfire across the planet. Yet when the Transition USA movement was featured in the New York Times, some interviewees grumbled that the touchy-feely hippy aspects were only
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Ethical Consumerism Bucks Recession & Grows 18%
The term "ethical consumerism" has always given me an icky feeling. Whether it is discussion regarding the feasibility of a better world through buying stuff, or the accusation
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Should Dangerously Cold Homes Be Illegal?
Earlier this week I reported on how more Brits die from cold than Siberians, and the Government has previously faced court action for not tackling the issue of fuel poverty. Now a
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Give Something Back in the New Year
It's new year's eve, time to think about those resolutions for 2011. Some for you (diet? gym? less computer?) and some for others.
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More Brits Die from Cold Than Siberians - Utilities and Government to Blame?
The British government has already faced court action over fuel poverty and the number of poor and elderly dying for lack of warm home. With much of the public debate around
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Taj Mahal Threatened by Pollution
The Taj Mahal in Agra, India is one of the world's great sights, but it is in danger of being irreparably damaged by air and water pollution.
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Using Coke Distribution Networks to Get Medicine to Rural Villages
ColaLife has a simple but smart idea: use the distribution networks already established for Coca Cola drinks, which are available in the most remote parts of the world, to get "social products" like oral rehydration salts
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On The Elephant In The Room: Population And The Environment
As Sami noted in his post Is Birth Control the Cheapest Answer to Climate Change?, overpopulation isn't exactly a taboo subject here on TreeHugger. The subject has attracted the attention of
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Solar Cinema Takes Rural Kenya by Storm (Video)
I already knew that solar is a life saver in Africa, and that it can be a great way to boost school performance too. But it hadn't occurred to me that it is also a fantastic way to bring the joys of a good Jackie Chan movie to
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Is Birth Control the Cheapest Answer to Climate Change?
From overpopulation as the elephant in the room, to the idea that less sex and more TV might be the answer to India's growing birth rate, overpopulation isn't exactly a taboo subject here
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Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People Globally by 2020 & It Just Goes Up Each Year After That
Each year there are 350,000 people dying due to climate change, with a total death toll by 2020 of five
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How Saving Energy at Work Can Light Up Africa With Solar (Video)
I already wrote about the Off-On program's efforts to turn energy savings in London into money for solar in Africa. We already know that solar can be a life saver in developing countries, and it can be a great
