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- These low-cost housing solutions are made from bamboo Tue, 1 Aug 23, 3:30amThe Housing NOW project addresses home insecurity in a variety of affordable, efficient and sustainable ways. Started by Blue Temple, an architecture design studio based in Myanmar, the structures are constructed using bamboo...
- Shock waves: Inside the 15 April edition of Guardian Weekly Wed, 13 Apr 22, 6:00pmHow the war in Ukraine is reshaping Europe. Plus: a French election volte-faceGet the Guardian Weekly magazine delivered to your home address
- ‘We feel safer’: how green energy is brightening refugee lives in Rwanda Sat, 2 Apr 22, 6:00pmSolar panels and cleaner-burning stoves have reduced dangers faced by residents of three camps
- UK politics: Gove makes statement on homes for Ukrainian refugees as website for scheme opens – as it happened Tue, 15 Mar 22, 5:19amLatest updates: minister announces details of scheme to MPs as website for people interested to house refugees goes live
- Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells UK MPs Ukraine will fight ‘in the forests, in the fields, in the streets’ – as it happened Wed, 9 Mar 22, 5:16amUkrainian president summons spirit of Winston Churchill and tells MPs his country ‘will fight to the end in the sea, in the air, whatever the costs’...
- Giant puppet represents refugee children at COP26 Thu, 11 Nov 21, 6:30amYesterday, Little Amal finally made it to COP26 in Glasgow, just in time to lead a plenary session with Samoan activist Brianna Fruean on Gender Day...
- Cutwork proposes innovative just add water housing for refugees Tue, 24 Sep 19, 4:30amIn a bid to alleviate the global refugee housing crisis, Paris-based design studio Cutwork developed a conceptual housing proposal that it says will only take one day and, at minimum, two people without special construction...
- The Guardian view on climate breakdown: an emergency for all, but especially the poor | Editorial Thu, 1 Aug 19, 3:30amRecord temperatures in Europe and the US have reinforced the danger of global heating for many inhabitants. But others are and will be far worse hitWe tend to learn better from experience than from what we have simply been...
- Women are essential to climate resilience in the Caribbean heres why Fri, 8 Feb 19, 3:30amThe impacts of climate change are felt most intimately by poor and rural women. Many women rely directly on nature for their income, and their lack of resources prevents them from shifting to alternate jobs or safer locations...
- Permaculture feeds and empowers refugees in Uganda Sat, 19 Jan 19, 3:30amRefugees arrive at Palabek refugee camp in Northern Uganda with the clothes on their back and what little they carried. New arrivals, many from South Sudan, receive a tarp, tent poles, a water can, a cooking pot and a ration...
- Temporary lantern-like housing for refugees could slot beneath bridges Mon, 26 Mar 18, 9:07pmDesign studio 1week1project has proposed a creative way to tackle the ongoing refugee crisis in Paris, where thousands of refugees are still estimated to be sleeping rough...
- Pop-up Befriending Kitchen serves meals to refugees and asylum seekers in London Thu, 8 Mar 18, 5:03pmMerrett Houmøller Architects designed a pop-up kitchen that not only addresses social change, but is also a clever take on modular architecture with wheels...
- Pop-up Befriending Kitchen unites refugees and asylum seekers in London Thu, 8 Mar 18, 5:03pmMerrett Houmøller Architects designed a pop-up kitchen that not only addresses social change, but is also a clever take on modular architecture with wheels...
- World's largest solar plant in a refugee camp opens in Jordan Wed, 15 Nov 17, 12:45amThe world's largest solar plant found in a refugee camp has begun operations at the Za'atari Refugee Camp in north Jordan, near the Syrian border. The project, which cost $17.5 million, was funded by the German government...
- New Zealand considering special visas for climate refugees Wed, 1 Nov 17, 2:19amImpacts of climate change, like rising sea levels, will likely soon force people to abandon their land. Now the new government of New Zealand is considering action. They're thinking about creating an experimental visa category...