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Impact Investment Finances Indigenous Community Solar Project
2016-05-31 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ProBono Australia: In what is believed to be an Australian first, an impact investment loan via two philanthropic foundations has seen a 139-panel solar power system installed at an Indigenous community in Western Australia. The 36-kilowatt system at the Kurrawang Aboriginal Christian Community near Kalgoorlie is mounted on the roof of a workshop and machinery shed and is expected to displace 20 per cent of the community`s electricity use and offset about 60 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year. The solar project...
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Impact of climate change on Indigenous communities
2016-04-14 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: When singer, songwriter, storyteller and music therapist Getano Bann talks about climate change he talks about connection to country. Mr Bann draws on a tradition of telling "life stories" to build empathy, asking people to imagine themselves as an ancestor on an island in the Torres Strait, at the beginning of time. "This is your island and you grow old and you have children," he said. "Then for thousands and thousands of years your children have told the story of you: our ancestor who's...
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Green and Indigenous groups furious over Queensland's Carmichael coalmine lease approval
2016-04-03 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Conservationists and traditional owners have been floored by Queenslands decision to grant mining leases for Adanis mega-coalmine while two court challenges are unresolved. The Queensland government has cleared the last major state hurdle for the Indian miner to proceed with its $22bn coalmine (which would be Australias largest), rail and port project in the Galilee Basin and at Abbot Point. But even Adani says it wont make a final investment decision on the project until legal challenges...
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Ecuador's next Amazon oil battle: Indigenous Peoples on the front line
2016-04-01 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Renewable energy versus nuclear: dispelling the myths Nutritionally-enhanced GM crops? Too bad about the deformed butterflies From coral reef to 'aquarium filler': the beauty of tropical fish is their doom Colombia: there's no place for clean water under 'free trade' European companies line up to bid for Amazon megadam Our forest is full of spirits that maintain the balance of life in the forest. If we do not listen to them, the balance of life will be altered and we will not survive. We have...
Simulation shows how modern interventions can affect tropical forests and indigenous people
2016-03-26 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: People have thrived deep within the Amazon rainforest for hundreds of years without contact with the outside world. The constant encroachment of modern civilization, however, is putting the long-term sustainability of these people, and the ecosystems they inhabit, at risk. Now a team of Stanford researchers has developed a computer model that can help understand the ways that activities such as clear-cutting and welfare programs might impact the future of the land and the people who live inside...
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