Monthly Archives: January 2012

Rivers of Addis 100+ years and wasting away

Addis was founded some 118 years ago by empress Taytu because of its hot springs, which she used to attend at every chance she got due to its medicinal and recreational values. After spending some time there she decided to bring the palace to these hot springs and named the place Addis Ababa. Here we are all these years later and we haven’t yet embraced the resources that Addis has to offer as much as we could have done it.
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Beyond Buying Bonds

Energy consumption around the world is a highly pressing issue.  According to a UN statistic of 2008, the electricity coverage of Ethiopia’s then 75mill population was 16%. Since then, there have been efforts to up the coverage by the EEPCo (Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation), by MoME (Ministry of Mines and Energy) and various aid organizations focusing on the energy sector.
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5 Things we are doing right!

These days the wave of life style changes has hit us on a large scale. From grounded houses to G+ sth condominiums, fast-food burger places everywhere, settlements to peripheries which call for dependence of cars, ring roads, the renaissance dam, taxation on everything… every headline of the day forces us to change our lifestyle one way or the other.
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Biogas: Next Gen car fuel … [PART 3]

Growing acceptance of biocars.

After two articles on the benefits of biogas it’s only fair to conclude with a look forward and here it is: Biogas fuel can be used to run cars, which is of course no news to the world. Once it hit the headlines here too, we knew that we were going be to part of this movement.
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