While it is, of course, vital to finally link water and energy use, this report still overlooks the opportunities for saline agriculture and aquaculture to provide all of our growing human family’s needs for food, fiber and fuel from our most abundant global resources: the Earth’s 97% seawater; daily free …
Impact Quarterly: Investing in Inclusion through Market Transformation
June 2013 As always, the Impact Forum ended with the wonderful elated feeling of ‘we can do it’ and ‘we can make it happen’. Of course ‘it’ in this case is sustainable development. With the theme of ‘Investing in Inclusion’, Impact Forum 2013 brought together over 500 participants from over …
New “Foundations” magazine – Celebrating global prizes and promoting sustainable construction
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Victoria’s Secret Revealed in Child Picking Burkina Faso Cotton
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