Biomethane from Garbage: Turning a Climate Enemy into Clean Energy – VIDEO

FORTALEZA, Brazil, Oct 07 (IPS) – Garbage that has accumulated since 1991 in the two landfills in the municipality of Caucaia has become a biomethane deposit that supplies industrial and commercial companies, thermoelectric plants and homes in Ceará, a state in northeastern Brazil. Read the full story, “Biomethane from Garbage: Turning a Climate Enemy into […]

Caribbean-American Artist Depicts Chosen Family

NEW YORK, Oct 07 (IPS) – For two months over the summer, Caribbean-American artist Delvin Lugo presented his first solo show in New York City, exhibiting large, vibrant canvases at High Line Nine Galleries on Manhattan’s West Side and featuring queer communities in his homeland, the Dominican Republic. Read the full story, “Caribbean-American Artist Depicts […]

Pakistans Transgender Legislation in the Line of Fire

Karachi, Oct 06 (IPS) – It has taken four years for some politicians to oppose a landmark law protecting the rights of transgender persons, saying it’s against Islam and the country’s constitution. Read the full story, “Pakistans Transgender Legislation in the Line of Fire”, on globalissues.org → find more fun & mates at SoShow now […]

Energy Transition: Is it Time for Africa to Talk Tough?

Kampala, Oct 05 (IPS) – Thirty-year-old Difasi Amooti Kisembo is one of the demonstrators near the EU delegation offices in Kampala. He and a handful of others have traveled from Uganda’s oil and gas-rich Albertine region’s district to Uganda’s capital Kampala to express their displeasure with an EU Parliament’s resolution against the planned construction of […]

The Allure of Strongmen

STOCKHOLM, Oct 05 (IPS) – After President Putin had given a speech, garnered with accusations and myths, a mega-show at the Red Square celebrated the re-entry of four Ukrainian regions to the bosom of Mother Russia. This while a mass mobilization was preparing to throw hundreds of thousands of young men into the hell of […]