The city of Portland is looking at a new system that will generate hydropower without environmental impacts to fish and stream flows. Portland-based Lucid Energy Inc. designs turbines that generate electricity from water flowing through city pipes.
Lucid has proposed to install a unique set of hydroelectric turbines inside the city drinking water line at SE 147th and Powell.
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Edna Osebe
- Tue 26 Feb, 2013
Ahmedabad-based Abellon Clean Energy Ltd and Mumbai-based A2Z Maintenance will build two green power projects in Ahmedabad by using urban waste for generating electricity!
The plants would get urban waste from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and take about two years to complete the project. The corporation will also provide land at a concessional rate and earn an annual fee from the private...
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Edna Osebe
- Tue 26 Feb, 2013
In 2012 Europeans generated approximately 265 million tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW). A mountain of urban waste that is rising year after year caused by growing volumes of packaging and food disposed by our households. With the World Bank predicting that global generation of MSW will rise from the current 1.3 billion tonnes/year to 2.2 billion tonnes/year by 2025, the annual cost of solid...
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Edna Osebe
- Tue 26 Feb, 2013
A shopkeeper in New Delhi is doing his bit to help raise children out of poverty by setting up a makeshift school underneath a railway bridge.
Most of the pupils who attend the morning classes come from nearby slums and would normally go out looking for work to support their families instead of going to government-run schools.
Watch the video at this link.
Source: BBC
Posted by:
Ed Kerry
- Mon 25 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Rupa Jha
As part of its project on the cities of the future, the BBC asked a series of experts to explain their vision of where they would like to live in the future.
With input from those who are planning new cities to people who are retro-fitting old ones and even a child's view of the future, they asked one simple question: 'What if you could design a city from scratch?"
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Fri 22 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Jane Wakefield
Around the world new cities are being built while those we have lived in for centuries are being upgraded for the future.
It is partly a reaction to over-crowding and pollution and partly because in an ever-connected world it makes increasing sense to hook entire cities up to the network.
A smarter city may mean one that uses data on traffic to ease congestion or one that aims to join up services...
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Thu 21 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Jane Wakefield
Lessons from the women who are leading the sustainable cities movement
By Darby Minow Smith
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Prabha Khosla
- Thu 21 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Darby Minow Smith
Women's organisations have been urged to commit themselves to development goals to address issues related to the promotion of gender equality and gender mainstreaming in public policies.
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Thu 21 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Gothataone Moeng
Gender equality has been promoted in China for many years. Recently, the Shenzhen Women's Federation enshrined a law and made detailed explanations of policies related to gender equality. Its innovations and advances may amaze many people, and the Shenzhen Women's Federation has played the pioneering role.
Posted by:
Ed Kerry
- Thu 21 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Sun Xi (ed.)
Kenya’s largest commercial solar power farm has been switched on in Timau, Nanyuki, 230 kilometres north of Nairobi, paving the way for more commercial solar power farms in the country.
According to Ivan Freeman, owner of Uhuru Flowers, the 72 Megawatt farm will provide his company with electricity, which will reduce power costs by 80 per cent.
Posted by:
Kennedy Muzee
- Wed 20 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
By STEVE MBOGO Special Correspondent
The East African region plans to spend $64 billion on joint power projects to generate eight times more power, and end crippling energy woes that have slowed economic growth.
The new spending plan released last week shows that the joint power project aims to generate 26,649 MW of energy by 2038. This is more than eight times the current 3,670MW produced in the EAC.
According to the blueprint...
Posted by:
Kennedy Muzee
- Wed 20 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
ADAM IHUCHA Special Correspondent
UN-Habitat and the International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC) last Friday (8th February) organized an international working session in addressing one of themes of the 21st Century: Prosperity in Cities.
The meeting that brought together government representatives, the private sector, entrepreneurs, educators, and health and culture experts was held within the framework of the...
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Wed 20 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
UN-Habitat
UN-Habitat launched the construction of a Multifunctional Clean Energy Centre at St. Christine Community School Centre in Kibera Kenya. This is a joint initiative funded by DANIDA and UN-Habitat. It is the first of a series of Multifunctional Clean Energy Centres that UN-Habitat plans to construct in other Sub-Saharan African cities.
The proposed 3-floor facility has been designed taking...
Posted by:
Edna Osebe
- Wed 20 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
UN-Habitat
Times of India (TOI) checked in with Mumbai's women to see how well the city has been delivering on their aspirations. The battle is a long way from being won when it comes to safety, while the desire for fairness at home and office has been only partially met. Here is the first in a new series on the triumphs, travails, peeves & quality of the varied lives of this city's woman....
Posted by:
Cindy Nino
- Mon 18 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Madhavi Rajadhyaksha
On Tuesday, February 19, the Huairou Commission and its Safer Cities network partners are calling upon feminist organizations, grassroots women's groups and local governments to participate in a global day of action, Delhi and Beyond: Concrete Actions for Safer Cities. On this day, women and local authorities will jointly sign agreements identifying a concrete action they will...
Posted by:
Ed Kerry
- Mon 18 Feb, 2013
- Author(s):
Huairou Commission
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