Ethical Fashion 02/23/2012
 
Kavita Parmar of IOU explains: 

"This project grew out of my frustration as a designer with the current fashion system, which is focused on creating a lot of product with very short life span and with little regard to the way it was made. The idea was to rethink the entire chain: to create a new one that allows goods to be produced and sold and serves everyone involved. It is sustainable for the artisan, the designer, the final consumer and not just a few at the top end. We like to call it the prosperity chain."

http://www.ecouterre.com/iou-projects-kavita-parmar-offers-a-new-business-model-for-ethical-fashion/ 
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Solar Tulips 02/23/2012
 
"The solar tulips work on a novel form of concentrated solar power (CSP). Conventional CSP uses sunlight and mirrors to focus heat on a fluid that creates steam and drives a turbine. Aora’s technology does not use a fluid. Rather, it positions its mirrors so that sunlight focuses on pressurized air in the 35-meter (115 feet) tulip tower, raising temperatures to 1,000 degrees C (1,832 F) and creating a hot pressurized gas that drives a turbine."

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/flower-power-solar-tulip-provides-247-electricity/13402?tag=nl.e660 
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One wonders just how deep the roots of hidden agendas and vested interests reach ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/will-your-kid-be-taught-that-climate-change-is-a-hoax/2012/02/22/gIQAp6fFVR_blog.html 
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"Water demand is projected to outstrip supply somewhere between 2025 and 2030, and pollution remains a “significant” threat to water resources. "

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/water-demand-to-outstrip-supply-soon-1.1240857 
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GTFS - or Google Transit Feed Specification - is promoting a more convenient public transport experience.

More convenience means more usage means a Greener overall transit - as consumer resistance to public transport reduces.


http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/loopholes-for-rich-will-be-closed-1.1240392 
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" As governments bicker over who should do what to slow the pace of global warming, the U.N.'s climate chief is increasingly looking to business leaders to show the way forward to a low-carbon future. "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/christiana-figueres-un_n_1291552.html?utm_campaign=022112&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-green&utm_content=FullStory 
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" The Akuapem South Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Mark Dompreh Amoako, says there can be no meaningful, lasting and sustainable development in the absence of peace. "

http://www.businessghana.com/portal/news/index.php?op=getNews&news_cat_id=&id=160713 
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"The Energy and Climate Change Committee says the UK had in the past lost its early lead on wind power through lack of support, and must not make the same mistake again on marine energy. "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17078726
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" The US non-governmental organisation Water Defence, headed by actor Mark Ruffalo, has joined forces with the Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG) against hydraulic fracturing. "


http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/US-NGO-joins-Karoo-fracking-fight-20120216 
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One can never underestimate vested business interests. The oil industry is like the cigarette industry of the past - the latter was committed to protect its interests regardless of the health effects on the consumer; the former regardless of its effects on the health of the Planet. Kock Industries, a major oil refiner, is connected to a non-profit that has donated funds to the intended anti Climate Change campaign:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/science/earth/in-heartland-institute-leak-a-plan-to-discredit-climate-teaching.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 
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