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In The News…
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 Beacons of Hope
The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy reward
inspirational and innovative renewable energy projects which provide
both social and economic benefits to local communities both at home
in the UK and abroad. Virginia Kennedy looks at some of this year’s
nominees and award winners.
For Full Article, Click Here:
http://www.gvnr.com/101/1.htm |
Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement
(SITMO)
Philippines
 They
are called the Eighth Wonder of the World. High in the mountains of
the Cordillera, in northern Luzon in the Philippines, there is a
glorious harmony of rice terraces crowned with montane rainforest; a
subtle, successful combination of nature and artifice managed for
thousand of years by the Ifugao people, who give their name to the
region.
For Full Article, Click Here:
http://www.gvnr.com/101/2.htm |
 Noble Energy Solar
Technologies (NEST) Ltd
SecunderabadAfter a dozen years
working in the large-scale solar power sector, DT Barki was
increasingly keen to get the benefits of clean solar lighting to
India’s poor – replacing the smoky, expensive and dangerous kerosene
lanterns on which so many of India’s villagers still rely.
For Full Article, Click Here:
http://www.gvnr.com/101/3.htm |
Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Rwanda
 It has been said that
the best means of lifting Africans out of poverty are also those
which help curb climate change. The winner of a special Ashden Award
shows how an innovative renewable energy project does just this in a
place where, just a decade ago, genocide devastated its population.
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http://www.gvnr.com/101/4.htm |
Swift Rooftop Wind Energy System
Edinburgh
 Charlie
Silverton and David Anderson started Swift in 2002 and came up with
an ambitious plan – to design a rooftop wind turbine that was
affordable, silent, aesthetically pleasing and that would make a
real contribution to the fight against fuel poverty and global
warming. Just three years on, they came up with their solution.
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http://www.gvnr.com/101/5.htm |
Woolly Thinking
Second Nature Thermafleece
Cumbria
 When
Christine Armstrong set out to renovate her seventeenth century
Cumbrian farmhouse, she hadn’t expected to find that, in order to
naturally insulate the house, she would have to import the wool from
overseas - despite living in a county with a long history of sheep
rearing.
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http://www.gvnr.com/101/6.htm |
 Viewpoint
By Tracy Worcester
The Make Poverty History (MPH) campaign is based on
the assumption that the majority of Africans would benefit from a
western style growth-economy. Such an economy is highly profitable
for the international trading companies owned by African or European
elites but not so good for the 70% of Africans who still live on the
land. In the name of ‘debt relief’, ‘fair trade’ and ‘development’
these people are being uprooted and pushed into slums.
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Editorial
As we put this issue of Global Village News together at the end
of July, to reach you at the beginning of August - we look back on
an extraordinary month.
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Global Resources
Websites devoted to Positive Planetary Transformation
GoinGreen: G-Wiz Electric Vehicle
www.goingreen.co.uk
A fun and interesting website with a serious sustainability message,
GoinGreen is full of useful information for those considering purchasing
an electric car. From the leafy homepage website users can research the
environmental benefits of sustainable transport, book a test drive in a
G-Wiz, or even design and purchase a car. Whether or not you are
planning to switch to an electric fuelled vehicle this website offers an
informative look at the progress being made in sustainable transport and
its quirky design makes it an appealing place to investigate.
Reading Resources
Building for a Future
Green Building Press
ISSN 1357-759X
For a subscription visit:
www.newbuilder.co.uk
Or telephone: 01599370798
There are plenty of books and magazines available for anyone considering
either constructing or converting to a sustainable building. The Green
Building Bible, offers advice on ways to make homes and work spaces less
harmful to the environment and their inhabitants. It has a good
resources section, full of useful links and includes reports of new and
innovative building techniques as well as case studies on successfully
completed ‘green builds’. The Real Green Building Book is full of
information, ideas and product details on all aspects of sustainable
building. Inside it offers clear, practical advice on environment
conscious construction and interiors and also includes a comprehensive
list of ecologically aware builders and architects. Published by The
Green Building Press on a quarterly basis, Building for a Future,
reports on up to date Eco-build developments and technologies. The
magazine contains lots of interesting case studies of finished projects
and also examines property and building laws in relation to sustainable
constructions.
The Ecology Building Society
www.ecology.co.uk
Set up to provide mortgages for ecologically friendly properties, The
Ecology Building Society also offers Ecology mortgages to applicants
with environmental concerns and those who want to renovate derelict
buildings. The website has fact sheets about both Eco-new builds and
Eco- renovations and also features a list of useful contacts including
grant sources and organisations focused on alternative technology and
greener living.
Media by and for young people
www.ymreporter.org
A new online journal has been launched offering a growing collection
of news and articles related to media by and for young people. Youth
Media Reporter, at
www.ymreporter.org desires to help sustain and continue to
develop the youth media field, covering topical issues, trends and
challenges. There is not only news, features and interviews, but
also action of ‘how to’ articles offering tips and guidelines for young
journalists and headlines are circulated to subscribers for free.
Healthy Planet
www.healthy-planet.net
This site aims to put together many of the most practical ways of
changing the way you impact on nature and your fellow creatures. The
goal is to link you to the very best and most practical and most
essential links to guide your choices, or to find programs and
suppliers, near where you live. Currently the site covers the USA, but
hope to expand it to other countries.
Zedstandards - A Green Building Code
www.zedstandards.com
This website contains a set of draft documents describing a
sustainable building code. The zedstandards are based on the experiences
of building and occupying the BedZED development in south London. The
website offers a wide range of downloadable documents to help with
sustainable building from steps to reducing carbon emissions to listings
of the key components of sustainable homes.
(The above resources are provided
as public a service. GVNR has not researched nor does it endorse any
products or services listed in the Resource section. Readers are advised
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