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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleLife 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...
View ArticleLet 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleReal 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleGreen 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...
View ArticleIn 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,...
View ArticlePayment 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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