When residents in a small town of Tolima department in Colombia decided to vote whether they wanted a mega gold mining project in their backyard, first it did not mean much to the AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), a multinational company famous for its mega-projects. After a decade long exploration phase, AGA was only waiting for a […]
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, is an internet based platform, whose “Foremost mission is to inform [their] readers about the use of Renewable Energy worldwide and, in the process, assist you with decision making when it comes to anything related to Renewable Energy.” The website was started in the year 1999 by a group of professionals who worked in […]
Don’t throw away your water bottles, eat them. A new start-up named Skipping Rocks Lab has recently launched a new singular product that is supposed to put an end on plastic water bottles usage: they are called Ooho Balls, an edible and biodegradable membrane full of water with the dimension of a little sphere that […]
Climate is the centrifugal force which de facto is the lifeline of all things that exist- cultural practices, societies, commerce or political charters. It has for ages dictated the way mankind has functioned and the 21st century is no different. Climate has been altering the world map, catalysing large scale migration and prompting immediate global […]
Co-chair Sustainable Development Commission – United Nations In recent years, climate change has been the subject of a great deal of political controversy. As scientific knowledge has grown, this debate is moving away from whether humans are causing warming and toward questions of how best to respond. Signs that the Earth is warming are recorded […]
As part of its vision to “maintain a clean, healthy and wealthy environment” the Rwandan government took the decision to ban the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags in the country in 2008. As a country well-known for its 1994 genocide, Rwanda has now developed an international reputation for its cleanliness and in 2008 UN Habitat […]
The World Bank has recently published the report “High and Dry: climate change, water and the economy”, where an overview of the future development of the water supply sector is provided. Unsurprisingly, the report declares that our actual economic development rate is incompatible with a sustainable allocation of natural resources, water supply above all. Growing […]
South Africa’s Sustainability Institute Innovation Lab (SIIL) has developed the iShack Project in order to use solar energy and “Show how slums can be incrementally upgraded in a sustainable and socially just way.” Says David Hees, Solar Utility Manager at SIIL, “Urban informal settlements are growing rapidly in South Africa due to urbanisation and they […]
It is often the case that in situations where modern technology meets culture, religion and tradition then it is the case that the latter factors win out. Not so in Morocco, where as part of a climate change and renewable energy national consciousness-raising initiative, the country’s government recently announced it is set to crate 600 […]
Settlements at the Edge seeks to assess changes that impact people (often indigenous) living in sparsely populated and remote settlements within countries that are regarded as developed. Many of these changes are related to declining population, an aging population, gender imbalance, climate change, globalisation, natural resource extraction, or company closings in mono-industry towns. What does […]
