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Germany mulls over offering free public transit to improve air quality
Air pollution levels in Germany are high according to EU standards. In order to improve air quality and encourage people to limit their car usage, the German government is planning to offer free public transit. Since a lot of people in the country own diesel vehicles, the move would mean reduction in particulate and Nitrogen dioxide emissions. According to Die Welt, the program would take place in a number of...
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Couple who lost everything in a wildfire wins $1 million in lottery
In May 2016, Bill and Carrie Pendergast lost everything they had when a wildfire burned their house down. All they were able to save were the family pets — Sydney, a spaniel, Lefty the bird and Ozzy the black cat — three totes of photo albums and a box containing music cassettes. Since then, the couple spent time and money rebuilding their home, hoping for some miracle to change their lives. And as they say,...
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This social enterprise in Kenya is turning human excreta into clean fuel
29-year-old US environment engineer Andrew Foote knows that even discussing human poop is considered cringe-worthy by most. Yet that did not deter him from starting his firm Sanivation in 2014 that provides toilets to poor households in a small Kenyan town, collects their human waste and turns it into clean fuel. In Kenya, an average of 17,000 under-fives die of diarrhoea every year. Foote was convinced these...
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