Tag Archives: Environment

U.S. Bike Designer Partners with Zambians to Build Bamboo Bikes

July 15, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Photo credit: BBC On the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, next year’s crop of bicycles is being watered by Benjamin Banda.”We planted this bamboo last year,” he ...
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Africa. Dumping ground for UK e-waste

February 27, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Due to their toxic content, damaged computer and television equipment from the UK is supposed to be dismantled or recycled by specialist contractors. However, thousands ...
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WhereCamp Africa in Nairobi | April 4th

February 20, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
WhereCamp is the free unconference for geogeographers, mobile location experts and social cartographers and all kinds of folks interested in place. It will run shortly ...
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Windpowering Kenya

January 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The Kenyan company Lake Turkana Wind Power has announced plans to develop a $700 million dollar wind farm on 150,000 acres of land in northwestern ...
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In Desperate Need of a Green Revolution

September 7, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Robert Kaplan recently wrote this take on African development in the 21st century. The Current: Oil production is already booming, and food production may follow suit. ...
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