Showing posts with label resilience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resilience. Show all posts
08 April 2012
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Photo Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize31 March 2012
Barefoot College and Microformers shine as innovative power solutions
Institutions like India's Barefoot College, which teaches women how to run and repair solar installations, and projects like Microformers, which converts old microwave ovens into transformers, show ways to generate cheap electricity in poor regions
By Pete Mercouriou | Global Envision in Christian Science Monitor | March 30, 2012
People install solar panels on the Saint-Michel health center and a fish hatchery in Boucan Carre, Haiti. The panels will provide the town with a dependable electricity supply for the first time. Only a quarter of Haiti's 10 million people has regular access to electricity. In 28 countries, Barefoot College is teaching people to harness solar power for electricity. Dieu Nalio Chery/AP/File
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17 March 2012
In Limón, a sustainable community takes shape
First in a two part series on how EARTH University is innovating new ways to improve the environment in Costa Rica and beyond
By Matt Levin | TicoTimes.net | March 16, 2012
Allan Chávez, EARTH University program development coordinator, explains how manure from a pigpen is converted into heat energy through a tool known as a biodigestor. Photo: Matt Levin
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13 March 2012
Indigenous People Walk In The Highland Region Of Masaya
Floods in the area have affected 220 families and 1,000 hectares of farmland, local media reported
Gaston Brito | Planet Ark | 13-Mar-12
Indigenous people walk in the highland region of Masaya, 60 km (37 miles) west of La Paz, March 9, 2012.
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Stemming rural depopulation in Ethiopia
Fasil Giorghis’ office in the centre of Addis Ababa affords a good view of the Ethiopian capital. There are building sites wherever you look: grey concrete structures with protruding armouring irons, sheathed in scaffolding made from eucalyptus trees
by Samuel Schlaefli | OurWorld 2.0 | March 12, 2012
12 March 2012
Fighting to survive
A small community in Southeast Sulawesi is engaged in an ongoing quest for recognition of its right to live on its ancestral land
Linda McRae and Dirk Tomsa | Inside Indonesia | 12 March 2012
The school in Hukaea-Laea. Linda McRae
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10 March 2012
…And We Thought Nation States Were A Bad Idea
There’s a notion that I’ve been seeing crop up in more places: that our options for the future have narrowed. I’ve been wondering about this for a while—it’s a pretty basic set of questions when I think about it: what were our options in the past, what are our options now, what has changed, and what has stayed the same?
By Barath | Contraposition | March 7th, 2012
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Forget the ‘golden age’ of capitalism: there’s no return, and our future can be better
One writing collective recently referred to the ongoing global financial crisis, with notable acuity, as akin to a ‘dull explosion’. Into this vacuum, whose intellectual environment can only be characterized as one of inert propulsion, the interpretative tools of policy makers and the majority of academic economists alike simply no longer make sense
by Aaron Peters | Mar 6 2012 by OpenDemocracy in Energy Bulletin | Mar 6 2012
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ILO: Fund Risk Resilient Communities
The International Labor Organization (ILO) is batting for the provision of financial packages for rural communities to buttress their resilience to climate change
By MARVYN N. BENANING | Manila Bulletin | March 4, 2012
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The real Iron Ladies
With all the hype surrounding the Hollywood version of Margaret Thatcher as the ‘Iron Lady’ who (supposedly) brought the miners and trade unions to their knees, there now comes the real story of the Miners Strike of 1984 from Betty Cook and Ann Scargill, two women who not only played their part during the strike but who now say that the events of that historic year changed their lives forever
by John Dunn and Richard Vivian | In Defence of Marxism | 27 February 2012
Betty Cook and Ann Scargill - Real Iron Ladies
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Iran: Willing to Deal
With the United States and the European Union (EU) imposing one of the toughest sanction regimes ever on Iran, the world is inching closer to a potential catastrophic war at the heart of the Middle East
By Richard Javad Heydarian | Foreign Policy in Focus | February 20, 2012
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Nigeria again delays power sector privatisation
Nigeria has again pushed back the timeframe for selling off state-owned power assets, its privatisation agency said on Monday, another setback for reforms which investors hope will unlock the potential of Africa's second largest economy
Reuters | Feb 20, 2012
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Community Radio Saves Lives and Livelihoods
Fisher Wanka Masani, 25, has been inseparable from his two- dollar transistor ever since a community radio (CR) station started up in this coastal town. The square black box blares popular songs while Masani waits for his brothers to land the daily catch
By Manipadma Jena* | Inter-Press Service | Feb 10, 2012
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A two-dollar FM transistor, receiving community radio, has changed fisher Masani's life. Credit:Manipadma Jena/IPSStrong Sustainability
In order to achieve sustainability, we need scenarios of where we want to go: not only warnings and plans, but also reports as if we'd already made the transition. Who would have suspected they'd come from the south Pacific?
by Craig K. Comstock | Feb 10 2012 by The Huffington Post in Energy Bulletin | Feb 10 2012
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The new geography of trade
Globalisation's decline may stimulate local recoveries
Fred Curtis and David Ehrenfeld | Al Jazeera | 09 Feb 2012
Relocalisation and Transition Towns movements are springing up in developed countries in response to higher oil prices and transport costs - and many 'eco-towns' have been built in Europe [GALLO/GETTY]
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02 February 2012
Resilient people, resilient planet: a future worth choosing
Today our planet and our world are experiencing the best of times, and the worst of times. The world is experiencing unprecedented prosperity, while the planet is under unprecedented stress. Inequality between the world’s rich and poor is growing, and more than a billion people still live in poverty
by the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability | United Nations in Energy Bulletin | Jan 31 2012
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Is Latvia an Example to Other States in Economic Crisis?
Latvia is the model economy that can teach the world how to survive the financial crisis
By Julia Heath | Foreign Policy in Focus | January 16, 2012
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Latvian bank run.
02 January 2012
Don’t feed the world? How food aid can do more harm than good
While the media again reports 'famine in the horn of Africa' caused by 'drought', Rasna Warah looks at the real reasons why people are going hungry
Rasna Warah | Red Pepper | January 2012
There’s Hope for a New Economy in the New Year
Early in 2011 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon issued a profound condemnation of the global economy’s ill-conceived pattern of growth: “For most of the past century, economic growth was fueled by what seemed to be a certain truth: the abundance of natural resources. We mined our way to growth. We burned our way to prosperity. We believed in consumption without consequences. These days are gone… Over time, that model is a recipe for national disaster. It is a global suicide pact.” (Spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 2011)
by Brent Blackwelder | The Daly News | Jan 2, 2012
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What the Banda Islands Tell Us About World Trade
I was recently in a tiny group of islands in eastern Indonesia called the Bandas, remote even by the standards of that far-flung archipelago nation. They are the ultimate storybook stereotype of the isolated, tropical paradise. In fact, the Bandas can tell us quite a bit about economics. The lessons these islands offer have to do with the impact of global trade and how that trade shapes and defines the fortunes of nations and peoples
By MICHAEL SCHUMAN | The Curious Capitalist | December 28, 2011
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Not Manhattan _ a view from above the village of Lonthoir on Pulau Banda Besar, the largest of the Banda Islands, toward the Gunung Api volcano, in Indonesia. GETTY IMAGES
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