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Guardian Cities Cycle Week: What It Is And How You Can Be Involved

Cycling is at a tipping point: while some cities build bike lanes and ban cars, others are experiencing a backlash. Will the future of cities be two-wheeled? In the battle ...

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Environment

Why The Fight For Environment Justice Is Also A Fight For Social Justice

Until you dedicate your life to making socially just decisions, don’t fool yourself that planting one tree a year, composting at home or riding a bicycle will somehow...

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Environment

These Bicycles Eat Smog & Spit Out Clean Air

Bike sharing programs in China are big right now. There are over 30 Chinese start-ups and one of the largest of them all, Ofo, has about 2.2 million bikes in 43 cities. Daa...

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Sustainable Development

How Singapore Is Creating More Land For Itself

Jurong Island, a man-made smear of sand, lies just off the southern coast of Singapore. A quarter the size of Nantucket, it is thoroughly given over to the petrochemical in...

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Environment

Free Bicycles Reducing Pollution In India & China

Innovative bicycle schemes in China and India are tackling chronic air pollution problems and congestion by encouraging people to stop using cars. In China everyone used to...

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Thane To Be First City To Get Bicycle Services As Public Transport!

Public transport was designed to be convenient, but when you have to wait in line for hours just to get a ticket the whole endeavour sort of loses its charm. Thane Municipa...

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Human Rights

The Waste-Side Story

An evening titled ‘Waste Narratives’ was recently held at the India Habitat Centre to mark the inclusion of waste pickers and informal waste dealers in the newl...

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Sustainable Development

Device Pulls Drinkable Water From The Air As You Cycle.

Most bicycles have a place to hold a water bottle. This isn’t most bicycles. Fontus—a device created by Austrian designer Kristof Retezár—takes the...

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Hollywood

Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon join forces in fight against cancer

It was a bit of a BFF fest in California last night as Hollywood’s actors, actresses and singers came out to support a cancer charity. Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Ani...

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Bollywood

Punks, Pereras and Happy Hookers: Women of the South Asian musical diaspora

A number of young South Asian women are making inventive, cutting edge music, channeling the spirit of Grace Jones, Patti Smith and punk rather than Raj Kapoor. Are we livi...

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