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10:05 am in Business & Politics, developing nations, poverty, water crisis by TreeHugger
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Earlier this week The Guardian ran a story about how critically important but "unsexy" water and sanitation projects in many developing nations are being starved of funding as money and attention goes to other pro...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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2:59 pm in atlanta, developing nations, diseases, Food & Health, recycling, tourism, uganda by TreeHugger
Toiletries at a Seattle hotel. Photo: Daniel Morrison / Creative Commons.
I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are wasteful, with hundreds of millions of soap bars discarded ea...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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5:04 am in corporate responsibility, Design & Architecture, designers, developing nations, lighting, Science & Technology by TreeHugger
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The Olympic Torch is such an important symbol of the games. Passed from hand to hand by 8,000 torch bearers, it is an inspirational emblem for the host country.
London's Games organisers had hoped that theirs would be carbon-neutral, as an extra green and environmental gesture. But that has proved impossible to design. Where are all those clever kids when you need them?
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8:25 am in africa, Business & Politics, developing nations, green building, united nations by TreeHugger
Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: DEMOSH under a Creative Commons license.
This week, it was announced that a joint plan from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote energy efficiency in East African buildings was approved by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to the tune of $2,853,000. Now that the acronyms and numbe...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:36 am in Business & Politics, developing nations, economics, ethical, fair trade by TreeHugger
Image: Courtesy of WorldofGood.com
World of Good, the socially responsible marketplace that was acquired by eBay in 2010, recently took a trip down to Guatemala to visit some of its artisan suppliers and to get a better sense of the social and political climate in which they operate. I spoke with Siddharth Sanghvi, co-founder of World of Good, about the trip and some of the impacts of fair trade—and since tomorrow, May 14, happens to be World Fair Trade Day, it's a good time to dig a little dee...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:17 am in africa, Business & Politics, developing nations, energy, oil, pollution, poverty by TreeHugger
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As gas prices climb, do you think at all about where the money goes? There's some talk in Washington right now about what's driving prices up, and there's little doubt that much of it is going straight to company executives—but there's a nice chunk of change that's wholly unaccounted for.
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1:18 pm in Business & Politics, developing nations, drinking water, india, poverty by TreeHugger
Men in northern India lift the cover to a water source that now pipes clean water to their village.
Photo: Rachel Cernansky
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume most people will agree that Earth Day is a real let-down—for lots of reasons, including the hollow "Celebrate Earth Day every day" email blasts, Tweets, bumper stickers, etc. But as much as I hate the expression, we do have to recognize and reduce our impact on the earth more often than one day a year, and that's important to emphasize now that Earth Day is over and the talk has faded. What's the point of doing anything, besides going to the dentis...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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11:45 am in Business & Politics, developing nations, economics, poverty by TreeHugger
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Foreign Policy has a must-read story about the role that Goldman Sachs has played in driving up food prices globally. The story starts back in 1991, when Goldman planted the seeds of a trend that other institutions would follow, to the detriment of anyone who relies on eating food. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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