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Ursula Sladek, the head of a German energy co-op, has made her principles pay in standing up for the environmentThe press in Germany persist in calling her the "electricity rebel", but when you walk into the offices of Elektrizitätswerke...

Assam's chief minister argues that time change will save energy and synchronise the eastern state with the rest of the countryEvery day residents of Assam, a state in north-east India, see the sun rise and set earlier than...

Vast desert solar farms helping to meet energy targets but environment and wildlife campaigners raise concernsTower One glows so bright against the blue sky that even at mid-afternoon in the Mojave Desert it would be easy...

European expertise is helping China expand its hydroelectric capacity on a scale that dwarfs similar global initiativesThe great grey wall cuts across the valley of the Jinsha river, a tributary of the Yangtze...

Government subsidies raising interest in renewables, but higher bills could complicate Shinzo Abe's economic recovery planAcross Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently...

Despite billions in profits, the problem of poverty remains largely unresolved in one of the world's least developed countriesFélicité sees nothing unreasonable about her demands...

Despite their disruption, can dams help the organisation work towards ending poverty while keeping carbon emissions down?The World Bank is making a major push to develop large-scale hydropower, something it had all but abandoned...

Residents of Côtes D'Armor in northern France hope a series of green schemes can also reinvigorate the local economyJacky Aignel, the leader of Saint Gouéno council in Brittany, looks at the cranes hoisting blades to the...

Pollution is poisoning the farms and villages of the region that processes the precious mineralsFrom the air it looks like a huge lake, fed by many tributaries, but on the ground it turns out to be a murky expanse of water,...

Entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organisations explore affordable ways to bring renewable energy to allIn the middle of the dense woodland near Sullia, a small town in southern India, there is one form of lighting for the...

Collective decisions have been the key to saving a way of life in Brazil's rainforestIlha das Cinzas (Island of Cinders) lies between two powerful branches of the Amazon, about six hours by boat from Macapá, the capital...

The House of Natural Fibre is applying imaginative methods to educate citizens about technology in a developing countryArt and science are joining forces in Indonesia to help educate on issues at the heart of social development...

A media collaborative in Yogyakarta is helping a growing nation use the technology it so badly needsThe House of Natural Fibre,(Honf) a new media collaborative in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, is teaching science and technology...

An experimental facility could provide the island with an independent, renewable energy sourceAs night falls on the Gulf of Ajaccio, Corsica, the Iles Sanguinaires turn red in the dying light of the sun...

Nation dogged by serious concerns over storage of radioactive waste being stored at existing power plantsEven the head of the safety department at Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council, has doubts about the country's fourth nuclear...