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Solar panels.
05/14/2008 Global production of photovoltaic or solar cells -- which convert the sun's light directly to electricity -- increased 51 percent in 2007, reports an environmental research institute.
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From: Worldwatch Institute
Related: [China] [Renewable Energy] [Environmental Activism] [Energy]
Image: Solar panels. © Co-op America
Banner in Sydney, Australia.
05/06/2008 Coca-Cola is looking to make huge profits as one of the three primary sponsors of the Olympic Torch Relay despite flagrant human rights abuses perpetrated by China, writes grassroots activist Amit Srivastava.
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From: India Resource Center
Related: [Tibet] [China]
Image: Banner in Sydney, Australia. © India Resource Center
An Ethiopian farmer.
04/23/2008 Small farmers from around the world celebrated last week the International Day of Peasant's Struggle and honored the communities and organizations in over 25 countries that are challenging escalating food costs.
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From: Grassroots International
Related: [Argentina] [Cameroon] [Indonesia]
Image: An Ethiopian farmer. © International Food Policy Research Institute
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04/16/2008 Brittiläisen kansalaisjärjestö Oxfamin mukaan saksalaiset kauppaketjut, myös Suomessa toimiva Lidl, pitävät hedelmien hintaa alhaisena riistämällä työvoimaa Ecuadorissa ja Costa Ricassa.
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From: UnMundo América Latina
Related: [Latin America and the Caribbean] [Labor]
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03/11/2008 President Bush rallied rich nations last week to join the the U.K., Japan, and the United States in committing billions of dollars for developing countries to expand their renewable energy capacity.
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From: Worldwatch Institute
Related: [Japan] [United Kingdom] [United States]
Image: © Greenpeace UK
11/15/2007 Thirty years after the Baader-Meinhof Group rocked West German democracy with a series of terrorist attacks, an ICA film season takes a look at the role of women in the revolutionary struggle, both politically and personally.
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Related: [Gender] [Terrorism]
The Investigation (The Young Vic)
11/04/2007 A piece of verbatim theatre based on the words of prisoners and guards from Nazi concentration camps has been given a twist in a current London production - it is performed by Rwandans and Congolese who bring to the stage their closeness to a more recent genocide.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related: [Rwanda] [United Kingdom]
Image: The Investigation (The Young Vic)
07/11/2007 "Persecution and generalized violence continue despite a change of government in Baghdad," Human Rights Watch said this week, urging Germany to rethink its policy on Iraqi refugees in the country.
From: Human Rights Watch
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Related: [Iraq]
05/07/2007 International donors, particularly Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain and Australia, have been accused of an inadequate or non-existent response to the UN humanitarian appeal for Chad.
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From: Oxfam Great Britain
Related: [Australia] [Chad] [France] [Italy] [Japan] [Spain]
05/02/2007 Saksan hallitus on sitoutunut vähentämään maan kasvihuonekaasupäästöjä 40 prosenttia verratuna vuoden 1990 päästöihin vuoteen 2020 mennessä. Saksa seuraa kunnianhimoisessa tavoitteessaan muun muassa hiilineutraaliksi pyrkivää Norjaa.
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From: Ilmastosivut
Related: [Climate Change]
01/22/2007 from Houtlust blog:
Campaigners in Berlin slip balloons with a message onto the exhaust pipes of cars so that the exhaust inflates the balloons. And after the message 'The world can't take anymore CO2' becomes readable, there's a big bang.
Image: The 'World Can't Take Any More' balloon in action

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Related: [Transport] [Climate Change] [Environmental Activism]
12/28/2006 from Christian Science Monitor:
The green lifestlye goes beyond cars in Vauban, with a wood-chip energy plant operating since 2002 and solar collectors and photovoltaic cells quite common in the town.
Image: A child pedals over the tram tracks that lead to Freiburg's center.

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Wind Turbines
10/17/2006 from Treehugger:
The installation will consist of twelve 5 megawatt turbines 45 km off Borkum Island.
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Related: [Renewable Energy]
Image: Wind Turbines © Worldwatch Institute
10/16/2006 The web-based Literacy Project, launched last week, enables users to access and share literacy resources from around the world. Available in German and English.
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From: Basic Education Coalition
10/13/2006 from blog:
A German-based company has developed a hybrid fuel cell powertrain that includes a battery pack and have installed into the first of a series of buses.
Image: The Proton midi-bus

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Related: [Transport] [Pollution]
09/23/2006 Unusual film double for Black History Month at the ICA in London on 1 October: The Lion Mountains: A Journey Through Sierra Leone, in which a 25-year-old Jamaican English man looks at the country’s past and present to understand how the country fell into civil war; and Black Survivors of the Holocaust, on the World War 2 concentration camp experience of Black Germans. Both films are followed by Q&A sessions.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related: [Sierra Leone]
riso e alimentazione - da Greenpeace.it
09/06/2006 Greenpeace Internationalin mukaan Kiinasta tuotu laittomasti geenimuunneltu riisi on saastuttanut elintarvikkeita Ranskassa, Saksassa ja Isossa-Britanniassa. Greenpeace on muistuttanut päättäjiä siitä, että laittomasti geenimuunneltu riisi on vakava terveysriski. Järjestö vaatii Euroopan hallituksia aloittamaan välittömästi toimet kuluttajien suojelemiseksi. Geenimuunneltu riisi löytyi Greenpeacen ja Maan ystävien Isossa-Britanniassa tekemissä testeissä.
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From: OneWorld South Asia
Related: [East Asia] [South Asia] [Europe] [China] [France] [India] [United Kingdom] [Consumption] [Environment] [Genetics] [Health] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] [Security]
Image: riso e alimentazione - da Greenpeace.it
08/21/2006 Maailman suurimman kauppaketjun Wal-Martin yritys vallata Saksan markkinoita on epäonnistunut. Yhtiö ilmoitti äskettäin, että se vetäytyy Saksasta. Toiminnan lopettaminen maksaa Wal-Martille noin 800 miljoonaa euroa.
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From: Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus
Related: [Labor]
08/17/2006 Saksassa ammatillinen keskusjärjestö DGB ei pidä ydinvoimaa käyttökelpoisena vaihtoehtona maan tulevaisuuden energiaratkaisuissa. DGB on yhdessä Saksan teollisuuden kattojärjestön kanssa korostanut tarvetta eri energialähteiden monipuoliseen hyödyntämiseen niin, että kokonaisuuteen sisältyy myös kivihiilen käyttöä.
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From: Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus
Related: [Energy]
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