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How Saving Energy at Work Can Light Up Africa With Solar (Video)

Image credit: Wieden + Kennedy London I already wrote about the Off-On program’s efforts to turn energy savings in London into money for solar in Africa . We already know that solar can be a life saver in developing countries , and it can be a great boost for school performance too. We also know tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Problem With ‘Shoot to Kill’ Conservation

Image credit: Mister-E /Flickr As the value of endangered animal parts on the black market has increased, poachers have been able to upgrade and expand their operations. Now, gangs, armed with helicopters and weapons—and financed by foreign cartels —perform stealth raids that

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Getting Developing Nations on a Greener Path Without Creating a New Renewable Energy ‘Colonialism’

Family and friends pose in front of a house in South Africa with a new solar heating system. Photo by Abri_Beluga via Flickr No matter how much it might help the environment for fewer nations to produce and consume at U.S.-style levels, slowing global development would clearly be an unworkable — and profoundly unfair — way to address the climate crisis. As environmental scientist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker put it this morning at a conference in Berlin: “Poor and cle… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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