EDF’s Voices for Clean Air – National Week of Action 2011

The EDF is behind a campaign to help remind political leaders that clean air is something that the majority of Americans support.


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SOMALIA: Cholera hits crowded Mogadishu camps

Photo: MSF/David Querol. Children under five, weakened by malnutrition, make up three-fourths of the cases (file photo)

Fears are mounting that a cholera epidemic could spread rapidly among the hundreds of thousands of people living in often unsanitary conditions in Mogadishu after fleeing drought, famine and insecurity.


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Harvard University Unveils its 50th LEED Certified Structure

Harvard, the oldest university in the United States – founded in 1636, less than two decades after the Mayflower landed on nearby Plymouth Rock – has reached the historic goal of 50 LEED certified buildings.


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Video: Move to Green Economy a Global Competition

Bruce J. Katz is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program which aims to provide decision makers in the public, corporate and civic sectors with policy ideas for improving the health and prosperity of cities and metropolitans areas.


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Another Offshore Oil Leak this Time from Shell

Source: The Green Market

There has been another offshore oil spill, this time it is in the Gannet field of the North Sea. The Gannet field is co-owned with Exxon and operated by Shell.


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US Government Incentives for EVs

The US Government is considering EV incentive programs to encourage early adoption and market entry.


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EGYPT: Activists use social media to help slum-dwellers

Photo: Ben Hubbard/IRIN. There are hundreds of slums in Egypt

A few months ago Mahmoud Salem, aged 30, used to sit at his laptop and join various online forums in a bid to help the effort to overthrow former President Hosni Mubarak. Now, and after Mubarak is gone, Salem is back at his laptop, but this time as an activist of a different sort.


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PAKISTAN: Forgotten 2005 quake victims still need help

Photo: Kamila Hyat/IRIN. More than five years on, Kaleem struggles to receive an education

Most people in Pakistan and around the world have forgotten the victims of the 8 October 2005 earthquake which killed 73,000 people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Province (KP).


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