Ugandan Women Tackle Domestic Violence with Green Solutions — Global Issues

Ugandan Women Tackle Domestic Violence with Green Solutions — Global Issues

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Constance Okollet Achom, chair and founder of Osukuru United Women Network (OWN), an organization fighting against domestic violence using climate change solutions in Uganda, during an exclusive interview with IPS at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS by Aimable Twahirwa (sharm el sheikh) Wednesday, November 23, 2022 Inter…

Indian Village Unlocks Treasure of Organic, Indigenous Farming — Global Issues

Indian Village Unlocks Treasure of Organic, Indigenous Farming — Global Issues

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At Jhargram in India’s West Bengal state, farmers have returned to indigenous and organic farming with promising results. Here women farmers prepare seed beds. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor Shah (jhargram, india) Monday, October 24, 2022 Inter Press Service Jhargram, India, Oct 24 (IPS) – At Jhargram, a far-flung…

Local Solutions Boost Sustainable Micro-Mobility in Cuba — Global Issues

Local Solutions Boost Sustainable Micro-Mobility in Cuba — Global Issues

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Residents of the Fontanar neighborhood in the Cuban capital are pleased with the incorporation of electric three-wheel vehicles to shorten distances between sectors within Boyeros, one of the municipalities that make up Havana. CREDIT: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS by Luis Brizuela (havana) Monday, October 17, 2022 Inter Press Service HAVANA, Oct 17…

Agroecological Women Farmers Boost Food Security in Perus Highlands — Global Issues

Agroecological Women Farmers Boost Food Security in Perus Highlands — Global Issues

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Lourdes Barreto squats in her greenhouse garden in the village of Huasao in the municipality of Oropesa, in the Andes highlands of the southern Peruvian department of Cuzco, proudly pointing to her purple lettuce, grown with natural fertilizers and agroecological techniques. CREDIT: Mariela Jara/IPS by Mariela Jara (cuzco, peru) Thursday, October…

Doubts about Chiles Green Hydrogen Boom — Global Issues

Doubts about Chiles Green Hydrogen Boom — Global Issues

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The administration of President Gabriel Boric, a self-described environmentalist, is facing a growing rift between scientists, social leaders and energy companies that have differences with regard to the production of green hydrogen in Magallanes. The first wind turbines have already been installed in the Magallanes region, in the far south…

Cuban Innovator Uses Sunlight to Create a Model Sustainable Space — Global Issues

Cuban Innovator Uses Sunlight to Create a Model Sustainable Space — Global Issues

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Félix Morffi, an 84-year-old retiree, shows a self-made solar heater and solar panels installed on the roof of his house in the municipality of Regla in Havana. His hope is that his house will soon become an experimental site for the use of renewable energies and that students will learn…

Mexico’s Electric Mobility, Stuck in Fossil Fuel Traffic — Global Issues

Mexico’s Electric Mobility, Stuck in Fossil Fuel Traffic — Global Issues

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The Mexico City government is increasing the number of electric buses in its fleet, such as the trolleybuses pictured here on a street in the south of the capital. But their energy source is still fossil fuels and the deployment of electric cars remains slow in the country. CREDIT: Emilio…

Great Wind and Solar Potential Boosts Green Hydrogen in Northern Brazil — Global Issues

Great Wind and Solar Potential Boosts Green Hydrogen in Northern Brazil — Global Issues

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View of the port of Pecém, in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil, with its container yard and the bridge leading to the docks where the ships dock, in the background. Minerals, oil and gas, steel, cement and wind blades are some of the products imported or exported through…