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Green

Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Footprint: The Food Waste Challenge

If you bought 10 bags of shopping at the market, how would you feel about throwing 3 to 5 of those bags directly into the trash? It is estimated that 30-50% of all food purchased globally goes to waste. Every item of food we th...
by Charles Ladbrooke
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Green

COP18: Day 3 Update

Day 3 of COP18 was punctuated with news of numerous hurdles hampering the progress of the search for solutions to combat climate change. Typical of most negotiations, there were parties who were keen on making it near impossibl...
by Kennedy Mbeva
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Africa

The Tree of Life: Disease and Poverty in the Midst of Abundance

Clara is a little girl who lives in the dry lands of Taita in Taita Taveta County in Kenya with only her grandmother to take care of her. During the day she plays with her friends under the baobab tree in her compound. Her gran...
by Fridah Mlemwa
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Green

COP18: Climate change and Africa’s health

For health anywhere to be sustained, people need clean air, safe water, adequate food, tolerable temperature, stable climate, and high levels of biodiversity. Climate change is envisaged to alter all these requirements of a hea...
by Daniel Wasonga
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Green
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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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Economy

WATCH: The Light Bulb Conspiracy – A Case of Planned Obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence – “A manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products in such a way that they become out-of-date or useless within a known time period.” The Light Bulb Conspiracy takes us back to the 192...
by Adriana De Sousa Calado
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Green

Maybe Hollywood Does Get It: A Year In Climate Change Cinema

In The Atlantic, Noah Gittell recently argued that Hollywood is dropping the ball on climate change. Pointing out the lack of explicit acknowledgement in Interstellar, Gittell went on to suggest that Hollywood keeps getting t...
by Chris Round
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Asia
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Climate Change Threatening Women’s’ Reproductive Power

Salma Banu is 23 years old, a worker of shrimp cultivation in Tafalbari village , Southkhali Union in Bagherhat Bangladesh, she expressed “ while my husband‘s monthly income from his cultivated land was not enough to contin...
by Tithe Farhana
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Europe

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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