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Archive for November 2009
Melting snow, widespread floods, water shortage, huge tsunamis, but also dirty beaches, polluted lakes and foul-smelling cities are only some of the threads to the world’s top holiday destinations. Tourism is one of the world’s biggest business sections, and one of the fastest growing. It contributes, mainly through air and road travel, to an increase [...]
Briquettes may prove a sustainable source of fuel in rural Kenya
27 Nov 2009
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
‘Briquettes’ are proving to be a potential alternative to the standard use of environmentally damaging fuels such as firewood, kerosene and charcoal in the Rongo district of Kenya.
Through the Developing Energy Enterprises Project (DEEP) East Africa, GVEP International along with partner organizations in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya are looking at various ways of supporting the [...]
Yesterday a new feature called “energy statistics Europe” was launched on reegle. The aim of the underlying project was to create a tool to visualise renewable energy and relevant energy statistics on the reegle worldmap.
The first step is done, you now can overlay the map with several different statistics (source: Eurostat) including:
Share of renewables (per [...]
The UK-based the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), together with the U.N., recently hosted an event at London’s Windsor Castle. About 200 representatives from nine major world religions, including Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, met to discuss on how to integrate environment friendly behavior into their faith. Especially today, in an area of distrust [...]
It is both a potent portrayal of the effects of climate change and an urgent call to action. On 22 October, David Miliband, The UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Ed Miliband, the UK Secretary of State of Energy and Climate Change publicly released a world map developed by the UK Met Office [...]
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46% from August 2008 to July 2009 — the biggest annual decline in two decades, according to the National Institute for Space Research. They took satellite images that show that some 7,008 square kilometers of trees were cut down in the year to July, almost half of the [...]
The RETScreen Team, developers of the free green energy deicision-making software, won the 2009 Summit Award for Leadership in Green Procurement on November 3, 2009. The award was presented in Victoria, British Columbia at the Canadian Public Procurement Council annual forum. Gregory J. Leng received the award on behalf of the RETScreen team.
The Leadership Award [...]
Doug Banks Renewable Energy Vision Trust awards first scholarship
11 Nov 2009
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: News, REEEP
Our colleague Dr Doug Banks, engineer, scientist, REEEP project coordinator, and a remarkable figure in the South African renewable energy community, died in 2008. The Doug Banks Renewable Energy Vision Trust (DBREV Trust) was formed later that year as friends and colleagues set about creating a living memorial to perpetuate his passion and vision through [...]
In 2008 donor countries have pledged over US$6 billion to the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) that were designed as an interim measure to strengthen the global knowledge base for low-carbon and climate-resilient growth solutions by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change The money will be used for demonstration projects that will implement climate change [...]
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