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Jardim Gramacho, the waste land of Rio

Jardim Gramacho is known as one of the biggest landfills in the world. 7,000 up to 12,000 tons of garbage arrive daily making up 70% of the trash produced by the metropolitan of Rio de Janeiro. The gigantic dumpsite is an economy itself. In 1970 the landfill was established as a sanitary waste facility. During the economic crises of the seventies and eighties the ground became... Read More

Iceland, the land of ice and fire

Iceland is known by its woolly Icelandic horses, frozen waterfalls, blue coloured glaciers and glacier lakes. 11% of the island is covered with ice in the form of glaciers. However, water is not the only element. The volcanic and geothermal activity is a spectacular natural wonder. Moreover, the geothermal heat is used for the next generation of electricity and heating. For 1We... Read More

Six guys invent solution to water problem

Six guys. One dream: per year one million people in Africa provided with clean drinking water. It looks like an exciting boys adventure, but for the six Dutch entrepreneurs it is deadly serious. “Water is life”, says Ton Koens, Chief Technical Officer of Multi Purpose Industries (MPI). “Without safe drinking water a child can’t grow up and an economy cannot prosper.” What... Read More

Svalbard… a land without footprints

The hard facts: sea levels are rising, global warming continues as the greenhouse phenomenon increases rather than decreases. The far-reaching consequences of global warming are already evident in nature: warmer climates, rising global temperatures which will speed up the melting of glaciers and ice caps causing early ice thaw on rivers and lakes and significant changes to our... Read More

Mudavadi: ‘This is a gigantic step forward’

“Acces to clean drinking water is a fundamental constitutional right.” These are the words of Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi of Kenya, with regard to a new statute passed at the beginning of August 2010. This new statute compels the government to place fundamental human rights -such as clean water, shelter and education- high on the political agenda. We meet the Deputy... Read More