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DEVELOPMENT-BURKINA FASO: "Sanitation Costs a Lot, But It's Not a Luxury"
By Brahima Ouedraogo*
OUAGADOUGOU - For some in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, rainy seasons have spelt trouble -- at least from the point of view of sanitation.
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ENERGY: German Biodiesel Forced to Compete
By Julio Godoy*
BERLIN - Until a few months ago, the production of crop-based fuels was the best energy business imaginable in Germany, thanks to growing demand supported by the government. That's no longer the case.
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SUDAN: "Contractors Have the Freedom To Do What They Want"
By Yazeed Kamaldien*
KHARTOUM - An oil-fuelled construction boom is giving Sudan's capital, Khartoum, an ever shinier veneer. However, some fear that this building spree is taking place at environmental cost.
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ENVIRONMENT-JAMAICA: Regulators Mull Viability of Ferti-irrigation
By Patricia Williams*
BLACK RIVER, Jamaica - Appleton Estates seemed to have solved the centuries old problem of what to do with distillery waste when they started a new project eight years ago. However, they are yet to convince regulators and locals that it is a viable option.
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GUATEMALA: Waking Up to a Better Coffee
By Inés Benítez*
GUATEMALA CITY - "Before, we didn't know how to market the coffee, or who would buy it in other countries, all we knew about was planting and harvesting," says Guatemalan coffee grower Pablo Pérez.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Wildfires Rekindle Global Warming Debate
By Adrianne Appel*
BOSTON - The massive wildfires that roared and twisted their way through southern California in 2007 are a glimpse of what a future of global warming may hold, scientists say.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Solar Energy Firm Says Carbon Credits Don't Work
By Keya Acharya * IPS/IFEJ
BANGALORE - A small but successful solar energy company involved in rural electrification in India is complaining that the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM) has been of no practical use to it.
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ENVIRONMENT-KENYA: Turning Trash Into Cash
By Justus Bahati Wanzala*
NAIROBI - From carrier bags, to takeaway cutlery, to containers lining the aisles of grocery stores, plastic is found virtually everywhere in Kenya's capital, Nairobi: for better and for worse. The widget that is useful in the first instance is likely to become a polluting eyesore after it gets tossed away, as the city struggles to come to grips with recycling its plastic.
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TRANSPORT-SOUTH AFRICA: Culture Puts the Brakes on Women's Mobility
By Gail Jennings*
CAPE TOWN - The bicycle has been hailed as having done "more than anything else in the world…to emancipate women" -- the words of 19th century American feminist Susan B. Anthony. But for many women in South Africa, culture and tradition make it difficult to take advantage of the increased mobility and access to social and economic opportunities, not to mention the reduced carbon footprint, offered by bicycles.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Bali Forecast - Low Expectations
By Eric Lemus*
NUSA DUA, Indonesia - The multitudinous United Nations Conference on Climate Change under way since Dec. 3 on the tropical Indonesian island of Bali has oscillated between optimism and quiet reserve.
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/CORRECTED REPEAT*/ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Subsidised Tourism Worsens Andamans' Woes
By Pankaj Sekhsaria*
PORT BLAIR - Tourism, promoted as a major economic activity and employment generator in India’s far-flung Andaman Islands, has run into opposition lately. Concerns are being raised, ironically, by local residents and tour operators who are supposed to be the prime beneficiaries.
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ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Thorns in the Booming Cut-Rose Industry
By Keya Acharya*
BANGALORE - The atmosphere looks sleepy: four women inside a plastic-covered shed, or greenhouse, quietly tending neat rows of rosebeds; two more walk leisurely about the premises, carrying buckets of bright-hued roses on cut stems.
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HEALTH-CUBA: Venomous Hope
By Patricia Grogg*
HAVANA - With equal doses of caution and hope, Cuban researchers are moving forward with studies to test the cancer-fighting properties of the toxin produced by the blue scorpion (Rhopalurus junceus), a species endemic to this Caribbean island.
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Inter Press Service ( IPS) and the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ) have partnered to commission environmental journalists to contribute in-depth, independent reporting on sustainable development. The IFEJ network of individuals and national associations of specialised environmental journalists is working with the IPS network of writers and editors.

Articles contributed by local journalists writing from all regions about key sustainable development issues will be distributed through the IPS global wire service and other partner networks.

This partnership was created within, and is supported by, the Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development, COM+. IPS and IFEJ are both founder members of COM+.