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Air pollution-a silent killer

The United Nations guidelines on air pollution from cars and factories that can cause heart disease, lung cancer, asthma, and acute lower respiratory infections could save over a million lives a year – if they were adhered to! The WHO has conducted “unprecedented” compilation of data from nearly 1,100 cities across 91 countries and found [...]

Al Gore’s climate marathon

I have just been online watching the presentation of Al Gore’s “24 hours of reality”. This is a global initiative across the whole globe, showing 24 live presentations, one in each time zone, on 14th and 15th of September 2011. Basically the strategy is to wake-up the world, to act up and win conversations with [...]

Reegle wins “Standard of Excellence” award

Again reegle has good reason to celebrate: we have been awarded the Non-profit Standard of Excellence award by the prestigious Web Marketing Association WMA WebAwards 2011. WMA is a great platform for complementing many of the best works done in the industry. Reegle, the clean energy information portal has again proved its quality by qualifying [...]

Power consumption, efficiency and Google

In 2009 a story made headlines that is still being brought up today: British newspaper The Sunday Times claimed that a Google search generated large amounts of greenhouse gases; the same amount of carbon as boiling a kettle of water for tea. Even though later Google later was able to prove that in fact most [...]

Energy insecurity in China

China is getting more reliant on energy imports despite efforts to switch to a low-carbon economy. This becomes apparent when looking at current data in terms of oil consumption and imports; both increased in the first five months of 2011 as compared to 2010. In detail, China consumed 10.3% more oil in the first five [...]

Climate, gender and how to tackle both

It is a well established fact: where women and girls are less valued, they are at greater risk to suffer health problems and die from natural disasters than men. 141 countries show that gender differences in deaths from natural disasters are directly linked to women’s economic and social rights a study by the London School [...]

 

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