Several hundred thousand people all over the world displace each day due to civil war, drought, and famine. Though there is no single definition for the term “refugee”, all refugees have in common these characteristics: they are uprooted, they are homeless, and they lack national protection and status. Nowadays the number of refugees is drastically increasing; because of this the issue is getting a high coverage worldwide. On the other hand, no perfect solution for the provision of adequate shelter has been suggested until now.
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Green and Sustainable Refugee Shelters
Tagged Green Tech, Refugee, Shelter
Green Tech Blogs Worldwide – The Case for Ethiopia!
Despite the vast number of green tech blogs in the blogosphere, there is an urgent need for a forum providing Ethiopian perspectives and solutions to a changing society.
In developing this green tech blog, we asked ourselves, “Why the need for another environmental blog?” And what do we mean by green technology? Green technology refers to sustainable and renewable technology for various environment friendly goods, products and services.
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Tagged Blogroll, Ethiopia, Green Blogs, Worldwide
Do-it-yourself wind power plant
Two students at Linköpings University in Sweden have designed and built a prototype of a wind power plant for developing countries. Their aim is to increase living standards by providing a small but helpful source of electricity to enable charging of for example cellular phones, light, cooling appliances, water pumps etc.
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Tagged households, renewables, windpower
Be part of it- become a GreenTech Blogger!!!!
GreenTech Ethiopia is an online platform for environmentally friendly and sustainable technologies suitable for the Ethiopian context. Aiming at achieving its purpose GreenTech Ethiopia is planning to organize a two (2) days training on blogging and social media for FREE.
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Tagged Blogging, Green Tech
A Green Economy Needs Green Technology
There’s a lot of talk about the idea of a Green Economy. It basically means an economy that continues to grow without using up or destroying the Earth’s limited natural resources. The idea goes back to the 1970s, when a group of scientists called the Club of Rome (www.clubofrome.org) warned about the dangers of an ever growing economy with an ever growing consumption of limited natural resources and predicted that some of these resources might be completely used up by 2050. The more recent debates about climate change and peak oil are going in the same direction: an economy based on using up limited resources will sooner or later collapse – and in the process destroy most of the planet.
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ICE-Ethiopia