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Street toilet in the Indian city of Varanasi

India launches massive, historic Swachh Bharat Mission to boost poverty alleviation through sanitation efforts

By Peter Schulte / October 3, 2014

Initiated by the Indian government, the mission aimed to achieve an “open-defecation free” and resulted in the construction of an estimated 89.9 million toilets between 2014 and 2019.

Norway will pay Liberia $150 million to stop deforestation

By Peter Schulte / September 23, 2014

Liberia is a global diversity hotspot, home to the last remaining viable populations of species including western chimpanzees, forest elephants and leopards.

Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Technology create’s the first ever garment made entirely of recycled cotton

By Peter Schulte / January 25, 2014

Old cotton clothes are brought to a factory and shredded then turned onto a porridge-like substance. The porridge is broken down to the molecule level and turned into a fibre substance to be used for thread, resulting in rayon fabric.