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Featured sitesThe United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification website provides information, news and resources concerning action to protect the world's drylands from further deterioration and degradation. The Corner House website makes available a series of thought-provoking reports and presentations, published by themselves and by and other organizations, on climate issues. News of weather events and climate affairs from around the African continent. And finally,Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo discusses her work Melting Men, a series of installations that has been adopted as climate change art. About the CyberlibraryThe Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is a co-production of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development. It is sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Tiempo Climate Newswatch is a weekly on-line magazine with news, features and comment on global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and development issues. The news stories carried by Newswatch are updated weekly. Comment, features, interviews and other sections of the magazine are updated on a weekly to monthly basis. The Tiempo Climate Portal is a listing of selected websites covering climate and development and related issues. The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is maintained and edited by Mick Kelly and Sarah Granich. The cartoons are created by Lawrence Moore. The site was developed by Mike Salmon and Mick Kelly. While every effort is made to ensure that information on this site, and on other sites that are referenced here, is accurate, no liability for loss or damage resulting from use of this information can be accepted. |
Issue 76 - July 2010
Available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format: Right click on the link to download the file and read off-line. This may prove more reliable than reading the file within your browser. To view the pdf file, you will need Adobe® Reader®. If you are living in a developing country or working on climate and development issues, you can request a free subscription to the quarterly printed bulletin. Please send your request, with your mailing address, to Sarah Granich at Tiempo Editorial, PO Box 4260, Kamo, Whangarei 0141, New Zealand, email: tiempo.editorial@gmail.com. Issues 51 onwards Issues 51 onwards of Tiempo are available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format:
Issues 24 to 50 Issues 24 to 50 of Tiempo are available in HTML format:
Issues 24 to 50 can also be downloaded for offline reading (file sizes 100-400kb).
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Bright Ideas
A prize-winning nation-wide biogas programme takes Vietnam's human and animal waste and turns it into clean, renewable energy, improving smallholders' quality of life
Schools for Intelligent Energy Use builds a bridge between intermediate vocational schools and civil societies to increase involvement in the field of energy saving and renewable energy HANGER 4 LIFE produces a stylish range of ecofriendly, carbon-neutral adjustable garment hangers
Toronto Zoo is deploying green roof technology, solar hot water heating and solar and geothermal energy and plans to use dung from elephants and other large animals in a biogas plant
The Tokyo Electric Taxi Project is trialling battery-switch technology that could provide the optimum solution for electric vehicle fleets
The Far Eastern Group has built the EcoARK, a three-story exhibition hall, using 1.5 million plastic bottles (video) SmartTrips visits different Portland neighborhoods every year with activities aimed at reducing drive-alone trips and increasing biking, walking and public transit use.
Zipcar provides flexible car sharing, by the hour or by the day and in many cities
Hydrogen-powered buses are carrying passengers on the streets of Reykjavik, Iceland (video)
The Esprimo P7000 Series of desktop computers from Fujitsu supports 0-Watt technology
Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions makes companies green, one light bulb at a time
Ghent, Belgium, has declared Thursday a Veggie Day, promoting a meat-free, climate-friendly diet for one day of the week Tiempo Climate Newswatch
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