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Sustainable urban design: lessons to be taken from slums
2013-06-05 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Alfredo Brillembourg is enthusing about Zurich's blue recycling bags. "They are an incredible thing," he says, his accent revealing his Venezuelan roots. The architect and former Columbia University professor talks at a breathless pace, most sentences ending in exclamation marks. "Zurich is an incredible city for recycling! Not only that but they figured out how to finance the whole thing, everyone is obliged to throw their garbage out in one type of bag, the Zuri-bag. That bag is more expensive...
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Selling solar power in Indias slums
2013-04-03 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Cities: It`s a little after sundown, and Arun Kumar is hawking his wares in the neighborhood for the first time. He`s selling a light, just a small half-circle tied to a three-inch-wide solar panel. An older man tests it in his home, a tiny hut of tarp and tin built like the 30 others in this slum settlement on the far north side of Bangalore. A kerosene lamp flickers inside. At a second home, Arun wields his 1,600-rupee ($29.48) gizmo for a woman seated with nine children. He points out the small cellphone...
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Climate change forcing thousands in Bangladesh into slums of Dhaka
2013-02-16 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Taslima Masud faces a dilemma every morning: should she prepare food or stay hungry to avoid illness? The kitchen is so close to the toilet, she says. When I cook, I cant smell the curry but I can smell the toilet. It disgusts me every day, but there is nothing I can do except . . . not cook. And I have to cook. Masud, 19, lives in Korail, Dhakas largest slum. Its roughly 70,000 residents dwell in the shadow of the affluent Gulshan neighbourhood, with its mansions, restaurants and western-style...
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