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Project-based learning brings wind turbine to school in Nepal

2013-11-11 11:14:22| Paper - Topix.net

During the past school year and into last summer, one class at the Academy of Engineering and Green Technology in Hartford, Conn., worked with a utilities expert and neighboring corporate partner United Technologies to design and build a solar-powered wind turbine that would generate electricity for a rural school in Saldang, Nepal.

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NEPAL: Garment exports rise on weaker currency

2013-11-05 13:03:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Nepal's ready-made garment exports shot up by 17.8% during the first two months of the country's current fiscal year starting 16 July.

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Nepal shifting rains and changing crops

2013-10-16 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: With weather becoming more erratic every year as a result of climate change, Nepali farmers are progressively shifting their approach, turning vast areas of rice paddies into small-scale vegetable farming. Vegetables are more resilient as they can be hand watered in case of drought. Farmers say that with rains that used to come in April now shifting as late as mid-June, vegetables that can be sown at the time the rains finally fall are now a better investment. But large parts of their fields now...

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