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Amory Lovins turns Empire State Building into a global model for energy efficient building retrofits
Amory Lovins' Rocky Mountain Institute together with other partners developed a model for helping increase the Empire State Building's energy efficiency.
Window retrofits, daylighting, a radiator insulation retrofit, and a whole-building control system upgrade will achieve a projected $4.4 million in annual energy savings while reducing energy consumption by close to 40 percent and cutting the building's overall carbon output, the RMI estimates.
 Learn more at www.rmi.org
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Survival International relieved about victory in Brazil's Supreme Court
Brazil's Supreme Court has ruled that an Indian reservation should not be broken up after rice farmers wanted the reserves boundaries changed.
Survival International, which has campaigned for more than twenty years for the reserve, said the ruling was a blow to state politicians who backed the rice farmers, and the Brazilian military. However, parts of the ruling could have serious implications for indigenous people across Brazil, the Right Livelihood Award Laureate organisation warns.
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Read more at www.survival-international.org
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100 Years Leopold Kohr | |
The famous Austrian philosopher Leopold Kohr (1909-1994) and advocate of the "human scale" would have turned 100 this year.
To commemorate his anniversary, Salzburg and the Leopold-Kohr Academy have organised a diverse program. An exhibition at Salzburg Museum will be open until October.
"So let us solve the great problem of our time, the disease of excessive size and uncontrollable proportions, by going back to the alternative to both right and left - that is, to a small-scale social environment with all its potential for global pluralistic cooperation and largely unaffiliated self-sufficiency (...)". Leopold Kohr
Leopold Kohr's books are published in English, German and other languages.
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Kohr at www.rightlivelihood.org
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