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Environment

Water Stewardship: Bringing Together Business And Conservation

Water is the earth’s most precious resource. Though we live on a ‘blue planet’, less than one per cent of water is actually accessible as freshwater. Water is essential to human survival, to the natural environment, to th...
by Alexis McGivern
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Film and Climate Change – the formula for a revolution?

Communicating climate change has long been a source of depression for many activists; from human stories that are reduced to numbers and statistics, to polar bears becoming the face of every campaign, the absence of those most ...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Armenia

Armenia’s Power Shortage: A Lesson For A Post-Fossil Fuel Age?

Through a combination of renewable energy, power conservation and using 12-volt systems, households could significantly reduce their power usage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Abovyan Street, which leads into Yerevan’s ...
by David Lawrence
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China

The problem of food waste in China: Part 2

In the first part of this feature, astonishing new statistics regarding food waste across China were revealed. As more and more consumables are left on plates each year, the Chinese government is forced into increasingly hazard...
by Michael Rose
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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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Green

WATCH: Drones For Trees

With the ongoing US drone campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, it seems like many people have specifically labeled drones agents of wanton death and destruction. The more informed individual might label drones as tools of...
by Conor Sullivan
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Too Big to Succeed? A Critical Look at the Financing of Dams in Africa

“There can be no prosperity without infrastructure, but infrastructure projects don’t necessarily benefit the poor.” Those are the opening remarks of a report recently released by International Rivers entitled, Infrastru...
by Ruth Nyambura
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Green

Matt Damon Goes on Toilet Strike to Raise Awareness of the Global Water Crisis

“In protest of this global tragedy — until this issue is resolved, until everybody has access to clean water and sanitation — I will not go to the bathroom,” – Matt Damon. Ok, so although it is highly impr...
by Natasha Lipman
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The fall of oil and the environment


The Fall of Oil and the Environment Bane or Blessing? The recent rapid decline of the price of oil, from around $115 per barrel in mid-2014 to below $50 per barrel by August 2015 (Brent Crude), has prompted widespread concerns ...
by Mathias Einberger
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