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Industry

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Clean Technology Investment in North American Hits Record High
Investment by North American venture capitalists in renewable fuels and other so-called clean technologies hit a record $933 million in the third quarter according to industry group Cleantech Venture Network LLC.
Oct 28, 2006, 8:48pm

Industry
Ten Thousand Villages Provides Fair Income to Artisans
Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Ten Thousand Villages works with artisans who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed. The income artisans earn helps pay for food, education, health care, and housing.

Jan 27, 2006, 2:59pm

Industry
The Songtaaba Women’s Group
The Songtaaba Women’s Group has been transforming one of the few economic assets in Sahelian Africa controlled by women — karite butter — from a less-than-subsistence, informal-sector activity into a formalized and systematized cottage industry capable of generating not only dramatically increased incomes, but also new jobs, new skills and opportunities, and the organizational training for further expansion of women into the formal economic activities. The Songtaaba Women’s Group, is headed by its founder, Marcelline Ouédraogo. (The name Songtaaba, in the Moore language, means "to help one another."
Apr 28, 2003, 3:12pm

Industry
Development of Alternatives to Animal Use for Safety Testing and Hazard Assessment
Dialogue and cooperative efforts between industry, government regulatory agencies, academic scientists and animal protection organizations have produced a workable strategy to replace, reduce and refine the use of animals for safety testing and hazard assessment.
Apr 28, 2003, 3:02pm


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News and Special Reports
Commuting Bicyclists: A Growing Transportation Trend
Nanoparticles Provide New Ways of Understanding Earth’s Workings
Climate Change Will Erode Foundations of Health: WHO Advises Adaptive Changes to Health Systems
Agriculture
Flood-tolerant Rice Offers Relief for World's Poorest Farmers
Scientists Find Why Intercropping of Faba Beans with Maize Increases Yields
Chinese Scientists Show That Intercropping Maize With Faba Beans Increases Yield
Air Pollution
Sweden and UNEP Work Together to Help Developing Countries Phase Out of Ozone-Depleting HCFCS
Calls For Urgent Action To Protect And Restore Peatlands to Reduce Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
China Closes Five of its Six Depleting Chemical Plants
Biodiversity
Encyclopedia Of Life (EOL) Species Pages Now Available
Fishing Ban Protects Largest Coral Reef in The Philippines, Apo Reef
Marmot Dam, Oregon’s largest dam, is being removed: salmon and wildlife habitat and public recreation to benefit
Desertification
Tamarix, a natural resource on which the communities depend for fuelwood, tools, and basket making.
World Vision International (WVI) restoration and protection project in the Louga region
Energy
Power Companies Focus on Clean Energy Deals
UNEP Response to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore Jointly Winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Production of Cars Using Ethanol-based Fuels Spurred by Sweden Use of Biofuels
Industry
Clean Technology Investment in North American Hits Record High
Ten Thousand Villages Provides Fair Income to Artisans
The Songtaaba Women’s Group
Population
Africa : Upgrading Traditional Midwives' Skills
Realityworks infant simulator and RealCare® Parenting Program
The Teen Outreach Program (TOP)
Public Health
World Food Programme Helps Pastoralists in Djibouti Recover
Revised International Health Regulations Imposed to Respond to International Public Health Threats
New open-source, user-friendly drug combination against malaria welcomed by Médecins Sans Frontières
Transportation
Bicycles Selling Like Hotcakes in US Stores
UNEP: Over 50% of gasoline in sub-Saharan Africa is now lead free
Efficient transportation for successful urban planning in Curitiba
Waste Management
119 Countries will Participate in Clean Up the World campaign
The improved septic tanks project
Enterprising Technology Transfer: The Puerto Morelos Composting Toilet Project
Water
Small Ecuadorian Clean Water Project Improves Health in Village
UNICEF, the European Union and the Government of Djibouti Partner to Provide Access to Clean Drinking Water for Djibouti's Poor
Path breaking Methods for Improving Water Quality Earn American Professor the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize
Exhibits
Coral Reefs
Ecosystems of Bolivia

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