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Fish Farming Eases Living with HIV/AIDS

Over 1,000 households have benefited from a World Vision project in rural Malawi that helps communities build and operate fish farms.Native fish species raised on fish farms provide needed nutrients to...

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When Business Turns Green

By incorporating sustainable practices, UPS helps the environment while saving money. UPS takes small steps toward minimizing its environmental impact. Photo Credit: Flickr. For years now, Brown has...

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From Trash to Treasure

The Economist recently took a look at how the process of recycling is helping to sustain one community in India. The dalits, a lower caste of Hindu, are participating in an economy that not only...

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The Race to Carbon Neutral

This week, Norway declared that it will become the world’s first carbon-neutral country, by 2030. It turns out that the idea of “going carbon-neutral” is becoming quite the fashion around the globe,...

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The Fair Trade Future

The authors of the book 'Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization' suggest some key changes for the Fair Trade market. Coffee is one of the more notable commodities of the Fair Trade...

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How Green Is Their Growth

Can poor countries afford to be green?A new report, the annually released Environmental Performance Index suggests that poor countries have been justified to disagree with blocs who demand...

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The Global Economy Reluctantly Turns Toward Sustainability

Last month, IPS news reported on recent trends toward sustainability and green business within the global economy. According to the January "State of the World 2008" report released by the Worldwatch...

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Life Less Plastic

I recently came upon a blog by a Chicago woman committed to living as close to a plastic-free life as possible. Her journey to a life without plastic began last September, and over the months her...

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Let Them Eat Bugs

Scientists are jumping on an underutilized protein source that is abundant and environmentally friendly. Sounds great — until you realize that what the scientists from National Autonomous University of...

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The Sky's Limits

The financial crisis is crimping construction in the Middle East and other places that had been experiencing a building boom, Der Spiegel reports.Developers in Dubai — once synonymous with high profit...

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Real Good, Not Feel Good

What does someone in poverty need most? Martin Fisher's answer: “A way to make more money.” Fisher is co-founder of KickStart, which pledges "a systematic approach to the end of poverty" by helping...

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A Little Black Dress Sends 264 Children to School for a Year

Take one basic little black dress (LBD), a cool girl from India, sustainability, and education for underprivileged children… What do they all add up to? The Uniform Project: the brainchild of Sheena...

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Green School

At Green School in rural Bali, K-12 students learn not only the staples of a traditional education — reading, writing and arithmetic — but also how to grow organic rice and build with sustainably...

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In India, SELCO blazes social trails to bring power to the people

A SELCO technician installing solar panels. Photo courtesy SELCOThis article was reposted on The Christian Science Monitor's Change Agent section.Harish Hande is democratizing electricity. In India,...

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Payment for protection: an innovative program boosts incomes and saves trees

A new program in Brazil is turning tragedy on its head by paying the poor to preserve their natural surroundings.Resource depletion and environmental degradation are common echoes of poverty. Desperate...

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