Local Biota and Fauna Graft Living Structure Monday 25 April 2005, by Mitchell Joachim The Fab Tree Hab is a home concept that is intended to replace the outdated design solutions at Habitat for Humanity International. Our goal was to propose a method to grow homes from native seeds, hopefully to enable these new local [...]
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by Jovin Hurry, Singapore; originally from Mauritius More than 4800 participants met in Bangkok, Thailand, from 17-25 November 2004 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, for the 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC). The Congress convened under the theme of “People and Nature: Only One World in three parts: the Commissions at Work to [...]
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by Faisal Ibney Hai, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Until recently, the environment was not an issue in a developing country like Bangladesh, and solid waste management was definitely not the prime concern of environmentalists and the government when the awakening to the issue finally did occur. It has only been [...]
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by Philip Sheehy, Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Having sown many a seed for technological innovation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now finds itself in a different role: testing ground. Atop its cogeneration power plant, a slipstream with 1 percent of the flue gases emitted is being biologically [...]
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by Cecile Mbesse, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon The victims of HIV/AIDS have no age limit or sex distinction. The training of the students of CETIC Ngoa-Ekelle has had the objective of making them actors in the fight against this disease within their community. The participants have identified and defined the problems related to [...]
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25. April 2005
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