Emily Sullivan
The Millennium Development Goals
Environmental Sustainability and Energy Savings with Straw Bale Homes
A practice that started in the late 1800s is experiencing a sustainable resurgence as communities begin to construct super efficient houses out of bales of straw. In this article Emily Sullivan explains how using straw bales to build houses not only greatly reduces our footprint on the Earth, but also improves communities through job creation and economic improvement.
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October 7th, 2009
Agriculture, Articles, Millennium Development Goals, Sustainability
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The Millennium Development Goals
Environmental Sustainability at Stake in Aguinda v. Chevron
Achieving environmental sustainability, one of the United Nation’s eight Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000, requires the cooperation of the entire world – a seemingly daunting task. Currently, a $27 billion lawsuit is under litigation between Chevron and the inhabitants of the Oriente region of the Amazonian rainforest. It is a veritable David and Goliath battle. At stake is the clean up of one of Earth’s most delicate and important ecosystems, and this lawsuit could have priceless implications on the future of the Oriente.
Emily Sullivan, posted on
October 2nd, 2009
Articles, Ecosystems, Energy, Health, Millennium Development Goals, Politics
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals: Eradicating Hunger in Eastern Kenya
Nowhere on Earth has the progress toward achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015 been more fraught than in Africa, reports the United Nations World Food Programme’s spokesman Marcus Prior. Alleviating hunger in Eastern Kenya is at a crisis need level, yet the shortage of cereals arises not only from population growth and severe drought, but from increased demand for bio-fuels and rising meat consumption, say Dr. Chris Funk and Dr. Molly Brown, all sources in Reaching the Millennium Development Goals: Eradicating Hunger in Eastern Kenya
Emily Sullivan, posted on
August 10th, 2009
Agriculture, Articles, Climate, Health, Millennium Development Goals, Water
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