Hot water for Chile’s slums, courtesy of the sun
By Helen Hughes — Special to GlobalPost SANTIAGO, Chile — Jacquelin Marin has no running hot water at home. For a while, she had no real home at all. ...
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Too few women in U.N. climate jobs? Ban names 19-man panel
A women’s group is criticising the United Nations for appointing only men to a 19-strong panel of experts to work out how to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change. “A planet of men? Since when?” asks the German-based Gender CC — Women...
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Can the U.S. compete with China in the green economy?
Fred Krupp is president of the Environmental Defense Fund . The views expressed are his own. It’s as though three mammoth challenges facing America are intertwined like the strands of a rope: reducing our dependence on Mideast oil; creating...
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