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26 Articles match "Africa","Energy","Health"
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Ecological Footprints and One Planet Thinking
Local Food for National Security and Public Health -- Soon after the E.Coli scare, Michael Pollan wrote a provocative article suggesting that we view local food consumption not as a matter of sentimentality, but of national security. Ecological Footprint and One Planet both frame human impact in terms of physical space. Now we're talking!
The Green Changemakers
- Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Is Population a Problem?
Therefore, to support more people, it will be necessary to move to poorer lands, dig deeper wells, and spend more energy to transport food and water to increasingly distant homes and factories. by Maywa Montenegro Will 9 billion people max out the Earth's natural resources? Or is overconsumption the real planetary threat? It does not. Earths.
The Green Changemakers
- Thursday, June 10, 2010
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Eco Chick’s Heroines for the Planet: Danielle Nierenberg
Danielle is currently traveling through sub-saharan Africa to highlight stories of hope and success in sustainable agriculture and blogging about it at WorldWatch.org. DN: This is a question we’re asking as part of our Nourishing the Planet project: Why should wealthy foodies in the United States and Europe care about hunger in Africa?
Eco Chic
- Monday, March 1, 2010
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Organic agriculture - one of the most promising options to meet global challenges
The UNCTAD Secretary General made the following statements on a range of key areas: Climate Change ‘Organic agriculture mitigates climate change by utilizing less energy than conventional agriculture and also by sequestering carbon. Tags: Health Food Organic_farming And higher incomes can be an important contributor to food security.’
The Green Changemakers
- Monday, October 20, 2008
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Solar power for the poor: facts and figures
Grimshaw and Sian Lewis Improving access to solar power for the rural poor faces many hurdles Martin Wright/Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy Solar power could help alleviate rural poverty. Increasing access to energy is critical to ensuring socioeconomic development in the world's poorest countries. David J. David J. see Table 1).
The Green Changemakers
- Friday, March 26, 2010
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ICLEI Case Studies - Locally-based projects that support sustainability
Tags: Environment Water Project Sustainable-development Poverty Energy Urban Local
The Green Changemakers
- Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Profits Before People: 7 of the World’s Most Irresponsible Companies
To most corporations, making a profit is goal number one – but some of those companies take it way too far, sacrificing the health of the planet and its inhabitants for a bigger bank balance. Living in close proximity to the oil fields has resulted in health effects ranging from high miscarriage rates to cancer. Nestle. Pfizer.
Eco Chic
- Thursday, May 7, 2009
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Urban Research Symposium 2009
Municipality of Marseille Monique Barbut, Chief Executive, Global Environment Facility (GEF) Inga Bjork-Klevby, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat Philippe Van de Maele, Director General, French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) (tbc) Special Message by Video Dr. Dawson, S. Barr, M. Batty, A. Bristow, S. Carney, A. Ford, C.
The Green Changemakers
- Sunday, February 7, 2010
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Eco-Industrial Parks (EIP)
By early 2005 communities in the US, Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa have initiated EIP or other eco-industrial development planning processes. Government receives increased tax revenues; reduced enforcement burden; reduced costs of environmental and health damage; and reduced demand on municipal infrastructure.
The Green Changemakers
- Monday, November 17, 2008
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Resource Center for Urban Agriculture and Food Security
There was opposition to urban agriculture from public health and urban planning circles, which perceived urban agriculture either as a threat to public health that should be abandoned, or as a low-rent land use that would not be able to compete with other urban land uses. animal health services, bookkeeping, transportation).
The Green Changemakers
- Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Entrepreneurs of the Natural World Show Case Their Ground Breaking Solutions to the Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century
Other commercially-promising advances, inspired by natural world and its close to four billion year-old history of “research and development” include: Vaccines that survive without refrigeration based on Africa’s ‘resurrection’ plant. What better models could there be?” The Nature’s 100 Best book will be published in May 2009.
The Green Changemakers
- Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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The Next Decade's Top Sustainability Trends
The trick will be to balance land use with energy production [link] so that unintended consequences, particularly burning rainforests and urban food price riots (Mexico City in 2007 pictured above) will be a thing of the past. By Warren Karlenzig What trends are likely the next ten years? Bikes Culture 2.0 It is not returned to the cycle.
The Green Changemakers
- Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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