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In January 2015, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma will most certainly become the chairperson of the US Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Senator Inhofe is a climate science denier, explaining his view based on his Christian faith:
Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that “as long as the earth remains there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.” My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.
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Futuristic Wind Turbines Take the Form of Sleek Minimalist Trees My Modern Met
The ‘Wind Tree’ beings a new perspective to wind power, standing 26 ft tall with plastic pods that resemble leaves. Hanging from steel branches, the plastic pods silently catch the wind at any angle. The ‘Wind Tree’ is specifically designed to tap the energy potential of air currents running through buildings in urban areas. A single tree costs about $36,000 and generates enough electricity to cover its cost in the first year.
Splendor in Singapore
Moshe Safdie’s Singapore ‘Jewel Changi Airport’ Redefines Airport Architecture
Construction has begun on Moshe Safdie’s new greenhouse ‘Jewel Changi Airport’, a nature preserve that seeks to redefine the urban experience of airports away from glass, concrete and treeless vistas to its exact opposite.
Solar Trees, Too, In Singapore
Mustafah Abdulaziz Documents Daily Reality Of Global Water Shortage
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Mustafah Abdulaziz Documents Daily Reality Of Global Water Shortage
Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz currently lives in Berlin and shares these images focused on global water scarcity with Ignant. Abdulaziz was born in New York City in 1986 and worked as the first contract photographer for The Wall Street Journal. In August 2014 MilkMade.com asked Mustafah Abdulaziz 10 questions, with an emphasis on his ‘Water’ project.
Globally, fetching water is primarily women’s work. Water.org writes:
Glass ceilings aside, millions of women are prohibited from accomplishing little more than survival. Not because of a lack of ambition, or ability, but because of a lack of safe water and adequate sanitation. Millions of women and children in the developing world spend untold hours daily, collecting water from distant, often polluted sources, then return to their villages carrying their filled 40 pound jerry cans on their backs.
An estimated 200 million hours are spent each day collecting water.
The project ‘Water’ spans water issues in 32 countries, with support from the UN, Water Aid, VSCO and others. These images focus on the scarcity of water in Ethiopia and Pakistan.
