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April 08, 2013
Enough is Enough: Clean up your mess, Shell!
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Ocean Pollution
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FairPlanet Editorial Team
Dear Shell, We are aware of the fact that you, like most other major multinationals, have reassured the world of your strong commitment to corporate [...]
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April 03, 2013
Is this the material of the future?
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Itai Lahat
As it happens, this material already exists, at least according to a group of researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), led by [...]
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March 02, 2013
Efficiency über Alles
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Itai Lahat
So how efficient is this car? Short answer is: 0.9 liter for 100km. that’s a staggering number. Compared for example with the will of the Obama administration to set the Average Fuel [...]
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February 23, 2013
Plant a tree and make friends!
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FairPlanet Editorial Team
How? There are 500 pine trees, typical trees of that area, to be planted around the village of Mugla. To sponsor a tree, you just need to donate 5 Euros and the tree will be named after the [...]
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February 18, 2013
Mr. Ghost comes to hunt your iPhone
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Itai Lahat
However, in 205 Draper et al. found a 70% increase in childhood leukemia for those living within 200 meters of an overhead transmission line, and a [...]
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February 16, 2013
Aquaponics for all
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Itai Lahat
These two great guys, Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora, who founded “Back to the Roots”, a company that sells grow-your-own-oyster-mushrooms-kits, are at it again. This time [...]
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February 06, 2013
NY Micro Living
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Itai Lahat
At the beginning of last month, Mayor Bloomberg awarded nARCHITECTS, Monadnock Development LLC and Actors Fund HDC as the winners of the adAPT NYC micro-apartment competition. Their tiny dwelling [...]
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January 31, 2013
A new spin on solar
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Itai Lahat
This new system developed by V3Solar, works like this: one meter-diameter cone feature a layer of hundreds of triangular photovoltaic cells positioned at an angle of 56 degrees, encased in a [...]
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January 30, 2013
Oil showdown in the Amazon
org:
Avaaz
The local tribe is resisting, but usually oil companies go in, buy off the people and break up the community. The tribe is thrilled that people across the world might back them [...]
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January 21, 2013
99 dollar iPhone
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Itai Lahat
However, Apple is working on a solution that will allow its fans to pay less, and for the environment to get more. According to the WSJ, the company is working on a lower-end iPhone that will use recycled parts from older [...]
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January 14, 2013
CSYS desk lamp
by:
Itai Lahat
However, LED got its own problems: Ugly light color, for one; and shortened life due to their own heat damaging themselves, for another. But now Jake Dyson has devised a new lamp that addresses both those [...]
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December 05, 2012
Water out of thin air
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Itai Lahat
A group of them has created a water bottle that can fill itself by harvesting water from the air. It is thought that a concept such as this could be one way to help some of the huge number [...]
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November 13, 2012
Freedom for small fish: New fishing net prevents overfishing
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inhabitat
According to Watson, “The goal of the SafetyNet system is to make commercial fishing more sustainable by significantly decreasing the numbers of [...]
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November 13, 2012
Nigerian farmers bringing Shell to justice
by:
Sara Jabril
This court case could go down in history as one of the first rulings to hold a giant multinational accountable for its actions overseas. Imagine [...]
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November 07, 2012
Hurricane Sandy and climate change
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Jonathan Lutes
One week before the presidential election, one of the two candidates may have used the tragedy as an opportunity to address an aggravating cause of [...]
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November 07, 2012
People Power vs. Big Oil
org:
Avaaz
Finally, Big Oil is having to pay for the wasteland and violence that they’ve created. President Jonathan supports the Shell fine, and progressive Senators are pushing for [...]
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