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An aerial piping system in Nairobi is providing clean, affordable water to a poverty-stricken neighborhood where waterborne illness is common. Diarrheal illnesses have been cut by more than 30 percent. In Kenya, One Solution to Contaminated Water Comes From Above https://undark.org/2024/08/13/kenya-clean-water-aerial-piping-system/ Related Reading
The nation of Cyprus has become a world leader in solar heating, and it’s working for everyone. It’s providing people with free hot water, and it’s creating numerous jobs for people to install rooftop systems across the country . ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/20/cyprus-solar-thermal-heating-water-rooftop-renewable-energy-climate…
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Organic waste such as wood, food waste, agricultural waste and, perhaps most important of all, coffee grounds, usually ends up in landfills where it emits large amounts of greenhouse gases, including methane and carbon dioxide, that contribute to climate change. However, Australian scientists have found a way to use the waste instead of sand to…
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It’s easy to think that one person can’t do anything meaningful to help the climate, but experts in the field say personal decisions can achieve 25–27 percent of the emissions reductions we need to keep warming within reasonable limits. Here are seven ways you can make a difference: Seven lifestyle shifts you can make for…
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The demand for nickel is growing rapidly due to the growing popularity of electric vehicles, but mining nickel is energy-intensive and powered by carbon-emitting fossil fuels. But there is a solution: phytomining, which is a process that involves growing plants that suck nickel out of the ground. Power from flower: Albanian farm plants suck EV…
The real estate industry contends that America’s housing shortage is based on supply and demand. However, with 16 million vacant homes across the U.S. — that’s 28 vacant homes for every homeless person— that cannot be the problem. A new study shows the real problem is that the U.S. real estate market has become such…
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Until very recently, worn-out clothes could be recycled if they were made from natural textiles or synthetic fibers, but not if they were made from a mix of both, as most of today’s clothing is. Now, however, a new recycling method can turn any combination of fabrics into a vast array of products from food…
New computer models suggest that the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a gargantuan mass of plastic and other garbage twice the size of Texas that is floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, could be cleaned up in five years. Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says…
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Until recently, areas contaminated by industrial operations were either left alone or bulldozed with the contaminated material hauled off to a landfill. But the former was wasteful and the latter was expensive and dangerous, so a California ecologist found an inexpensive way to turn those areas into flowering meadows – by planting mushrooms Mushrooms Help…
If poor people could rent self-charging e-bikes for a dollar a day, would it help bring them mobility? Early experience indicates it definitely would, so the idea is beginning to take root. Can These Self-Charging E-Bike Libraries Bring Mobility to Low-Income Communities? https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/self-charging-e-bike-libraries-metro-mobility-massachusetts Related Reading