charity:water – providing access to clean water for everybody
Our Mission charity: water is a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries 663 million people live without clean water. That’s nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide, or, twice the population of the United States without...
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Urban Terrazzo – new materials gained out of demolition waste
Whenever an old building has to be demolished or its core removed, an enormous amount of demolition waste is produced. What seems like a pile of rubble, which usually ends up on our local dump sites, can actually be the beginning of a great new material story ... ...
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Transparent Solar Panels Developed at Michigan State University
photo source: Richard Lunt/Michigan State University - no copyright infringement intended Imagine a city that’s actually a vast solar energy harvesting system. A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a technology that can turn transparent...
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Art Project “In Your Face” against microplastic in cosmetics and cleaning products
Photo Source: Ranga Yogeshwar: Physiker, #Scientists4Future - Luisa Neubauer: Akivistin #FridaysForFuture - Dieter Hallervorden: Schauspieler © Saskia Uppenkamp Project “IN YOUR FACE” 50 Beaches – 50 Faces Art meets science, meets politics! We...
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Tapirs could be key in helping degraded rainforests to bounce back
An intersting article by MONGABAY A new study has found that lowland tapirs spend more time in degraded forests than in pristine Amazon rainforest. They also defecate and deposit three times more seeds in these degraded areas. The results indicate that tapirs may help...
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A library full of abandoned books
The library, located in the Çankaya district of Ankara, was founded after sanitation workers started collecting discarded books. For months, the garbage men gathered forsaken books. As word of the collection spread, residents also began donating books directly. ...
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Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2019
WHEN Monday, May 13, 2019 - 2pm WHERE Auditorium, CITÉ DE L'ARCHITECTURE ET DU PATRIMOINE, 7 AVENUE ALBERT DE MUN - 75016 PARIS Symposium Global Award for Sustainable Architecture™ 2019 with the conferences of the 5 laureates The Global Award,...
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The Confetti Foundation – a non-profit organisation to make hospitalized children smile !
• OUR MISSION •THE MISSION OF THE CONFETTI FOUNDATION IS TO SUPPLY BIRTHDAY PARTIES TO CHILDREN WHO HAVE TO SPEND THEIR BIRTHDAY IN A HOSPITAL, PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY CLINIC OR HOSPICE FACILITY. The foundation was started with the hope that families will be...
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Women Wage Peace – a movement
WHO WE ARE Women Wage Peace was founded in the summer of 2014 in the aftermath ofOperation Protective Edge.WWP is the largest grassroots movement in Israel whose purpose is to promotea political agreement to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today...
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#Imarchforyou – One Million Steps for Refugee Children – from Paris to Berlin, filmmaker and activist Grigorij Richters is fighting for refugee children
Photo source:Grig Richters kneeling in front of the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin. Behind him is his 45 year old Volkswagen bus named Bulli. 09 December 2018 - Photo by Uwe Praetel for #Imarchforyou www.imarchforyou.orgFrom October 27th to December 9th, Grig Richters...
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The Lion Recovery Fund
The Lion Recovery Fund’s goal is to Recover Lions and Restore their Landscapes. We aspire to double the number of lions by 2050 through deeper and broader actions by the conservation and philanthropic community alike. We target protected landscapes—core...
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BakuForum – International Humanitarian Forum 2018
WANN: 25. - 26. OCTOBER 2018 WO: BAKU, AZERBAIJAN About Forum Baku International Humanitarian Forum is an event of famous representatives of political scientific and cultural elite of the world community including famous statesmen, Nobel Prize’s winners in the various...
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