Building Resilient Cities 09: Planning for Public Health Stresses Title Slide
GENI
Building Resilient Cities 09: Planning for Public Health Stresses Title Slide
Net-Zero Energy Home
The ultimate net-zero energy home.
The Road to Self-Sufficiency
Daniel B.
A brief look into what several cities around the world are doing to transition to renewable energy and how Houston can, too.
10 of the Most Innovative Sustainability Solutions from Cities Across the Globe
UrbanTimes
How 10 innovative cities have made significant strides in sustainability.
Three billion internet users by end of 2014: ITU
IANS
And the number of mobile-broadband subscriptions will reach 2.3 billion globally, new figures released by International Telecomuumications Union (ITU) Monday show. Fifityfive percent of these subscriptions are expected to be in the developing world.
WHO finds Indian cities have dirtiest air; Chinese data foggy
Tom Miles
(Reuters) - An effort by the World Health Organization to measure pollution in cities around the world has found New Delhi admits to having the dirtiest air, while Beijing's measurements, like its skies, are far from clear.
World cities, home to most people, to add 2.5 billion more by 2050: U.N.
Mirjam Donath
(Reuters) - More than half of the world's seven billion people live in urban areas, with the top "mega cities" - with more than 10 million inhabitants - being Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Mexico City and Sao Paulo, according to a United Nations report on Thursday.
Scale up policies that work to eliminate hunger by 2025 - food expert
Sam Mintz
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hunger could be eliminated by 2025 if enough resources are committed and countries scale up policies proven to work, an international food policy organisation suggests in a new report.
Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate
Justin Gillis
Early in his career, a scientist named Mario J. Molina was pulled into seemingly obscure research about strange chemicals being spewed into the atmosphere.