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Greening Refugee Camps
By Ming Zhang, CELT virtual intern Although most of us have never set foot in a refugee camp, we have all seen the pictures and heard the reports: refugee camps are muddy, overcrowded, unsanitary, and...
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Smart Grid, Smart Solution
By Rebecca Fields Green, CELT Graduate Research Fellow A technological system that saves money, the environment, and the pain of power outages may sound too good to be true. Yet this dynamite...
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Expanding Solar Solutions Improve Lives in India
By Janine Holloway, CELT Virtual Intern With 300 sunny days a year, India offers a perfect market for solar energy. However, that market has been relatively untapped until recently, when a range of...
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By Melissa Taguchi, CELT Virtual Intern Garbage accumulation is a growing problem in the world because we are running out of places to dispose of it. Landfills are overflowing and nations are under...
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Switchgrass Carbon Sequestration
By Navreet Deo, Virginia Tech ’13 Ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions from anthropogenic sources continue to threaten environmental and human health on a growing scale. Greenhouse gas emissions,...
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The Groasis Waterboxx: Creating Oases in the Desert
By Paul Skaloud, University of British Columbia ’16 “Half the world’s deserts were created by man, so why can’t we change them back to forest?” – Pieter Hoff, Inventor and developer of the Groasis...
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Beacons of Hope in the Quest for Global Water Security
By Timothy Bushman There are 700 million people currently experiencing water scarcity around the world. That figure is projected to swell to a staggering 1.8 billion people living in areas of absolute...
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When Relocation is the Last Resort: The Case of Kiribati
By Timothy Bushman The low-lying island nation of Kiribati is situated in the central Pacific Ocean and home to over 100,000 residents known as I-Kiribati (1, 2). Kiribati is comprised of 33 islands...
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The Leaf That Could Power Your Dishwasher
By Annie Wang, Georgetown University ’16 The sunlight that hits the earth in one hour provides enough energy for all human activity for an entire year [1]. Solar power is an energy goldmine,...
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Hitting Two Problems with One Stone, or Rather, with Soil
by Jailene Santana Implementing innovative soil management techniques is a winning strategy in the fight against climate change and global food insecurity. These practices are becoming more widespread...
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