The US Heat Wave And The Climate ‘Debate’

Western USA is feeling the burn. Not only was last month Nevada’s hottest June ever recorded, but when the temperature peaked at 47.2°C (116°F) in Vegas just two days ago, it tied with the hottest temperature ever record...
by Urban Times
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A Tribe Fights to Move Beyond Coal to Clean Energy

Southern Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes called for the closure of the Reid Gardner coal plant and a transition to clean renewable energy future for Nevada. The tribe has successfully managed to close most of the Reid Gard...
by Natasha Lipman
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Philanthropy Is Not The Solution: Bright Ideas Light Up Africa

1.6 billion people around the world live without reliable access to electricity. 600 million of those live in Africa. I’m sure this isn’t the first time you’ve heard an astonishing statistic like this. Everyday we’...
by Urban Times
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Money and Speed is the New Green

Chocolate, wine, sleep, sex: How would you react if these comforting pleasures were to be sapped from your life? If we truly value the good things in life, then why are we sacrificing the warming blaze of the sun, the life affi...
by Gustav Isherwood
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WATCH: Holistic Planned Grazing: Is This the Solution to Climate Change?

Burning fossil fuels isn’t the only way to pour carbon into the atmosphere. In this TED talk, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory explains how desertification – the process of land turning into desert – is an equal if not...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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WATCH: Access to Clean Water for All?

It’s quite simple: without water, we would not exist. It is essential to all human and economic development. We can’t live without water. Today, 780 million people (that’s about one in nine) lack access to cl...
by Natasha Lipman
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The EU’s Radical Shift on Biofuels: How Will Member States Respond?

The European Commission has recently admitted to being wrong in promoting first generation biofuels. By proposing amendments to its Directive on the matter, the Commission intends to limit the role biofuels can make in attainin...
by Thomas Bignal
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International Political Forum

Water, Water Everywhere, Only If We Share

  When you think of what you need to survive, what comes to mind? Food? Air? Water? Facebook? As renowned survivalist Bear Grylls stated in an interview with GQ magazine last year, the key is in the rule of three...
by Urban Times
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International Political Forum

World Water Day – Palestine’s West Bank Running Dry

Another year has passed and 1 billion people in the world still don’t have access to clean water. The struggle for manhood’s most basic resource has earned a day in its honour. In the Middle East, specifically the Levant, w...
by Yara Al Wazir
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