The Grameen Bank was founded by Muhammed Yunus, creating an innovative lending mechanism known as micro-credit. By offering small, uninsured loans to self-employed women in Bangladesh, the Grameen Bank was able to lift […]
Europe’s biggest inner-city development project. With the development of HafenCity on the Elbe waterfront, Hamburg is setting new standards. By 2025 a city brimming with life will have taken shape on a site […]
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[An] ingenious solution to widespread book shortages in the developing world [… The House] congratulates Paperight and encourages publishers to register with Paperight in making their works accessible to all. (The Parliament of […]
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The Okeanos – Foundation for the Sea was founded in 2007 by Dieter Paulmann, who has been a passionate private underwater filmmaker for nearly 40 years. The Foundation has made it its task […]
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“Those who don`t want war need a vision for peace.” The “Healing Biotope 1 Tamera” in Southern Portugal is an international training and experimental site for the development of peace research villages and […]
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The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), based in New Delhi, is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development […]
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The Passivhaus standard originated from a conversation in May 1988 between Professors Bo Adamson of Lund University, Sweden, and Wolfgang Feist of the Institut für Wohnen und Umwelt (Institute for Housing and the Environment, Germany). Their concept […]
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reposted from Marshfield Energy Project. TRESOC was set up by a group of residents from Totnes and environs who were concerned about the threats of depleting global oil and gas supplies (peak oil) and the impacts […]
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Energy from Waste schemes have had a very poor public image over the years, mainly due to persistant myths and the general public having such a resistant attitude to change. But we all […]
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It’s a depressingly common event: a report about the devastating impact climate change will have on islands and coastal regions. Alongside the Maldives, Vanuatu and others, is a report from Caribsave (with NGO […]
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