Posts Tagged ‘communities’
Nuru Lights Pedals Toward Clean Energy in Africa
By Tina Casey*
A clean energy startup called Nuru Lights has come up with a low cost pedal-powered LED light kit that is designed to help households in East Africa and India ditch their kerosene lamps.
Kerosene lamps are ubiquitous in the developing world. They’re a notorious fire hazard and can cause carbon monoxide poisoning when [...]
How Climate Change Fans Armed Conflicts in Africa — Report
By Nnaemeka Meribe
If nothing is done soon to combat climate change, the number of armed conflicts raging in Africa is likely to increase, and this may swell the number of deaths from war, according to a new report.
Climate change, according to Wikipaedia, is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time [...]
The Pattern of Response to HIV/AIDS & Climate Change — A Commentary
*By Mary Crewe
The HIV/AIDS pandemic grows from and contributes to poverty, hunger, exploitation, migration, lack of education and a failure of political will and imagination.
In most cases the reaction to the pandemic has been to describe “what is” and to find attempts to manage the existing status quo and protect it from anticipated effects.
Rather, our [...]
Philips Unveils Solar LED Floodlighting in Time for FIFA 2010 World Cup
Imagine if lights went out in the middle of a match between Brazil’s Samba Boys and South Africa’s Bafana Bafana during quarters at the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa? What would follow – riots, probably.
For ardent soccer fans, take heart, Philips Lighting is coming to the rescue, courtesy of the sun, with a [...]
Kenyan Parliamentarian Made Champion of Climate Risk Reduction
Rachel Shebesh, a parliamentarian in the Republic of Kenya and chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction, has been appointed as the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction champion for disaster risk reduction in Africa.
The appointed was made this week during the launch of the Black and Green, Ready to Lead campaign [...]
