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Sustainable Development

What Next For Renewables In Cities? – The Expert View

A complex range of factors is shaping how and why cities adopt renewable energy, from costs to the need for stable power supplies As renewable energy projects are rolled ou...

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Festivals

Film Festival To Feature International Fare

The best of alternative cinema from the slopes of the Hindukush and beyong are all set to rub shoulders with features from the heartland of the tropical haven that is India...

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Alternative Entertainment

How Stories Configure Human Nature

It is in our nature to need stories. We arrive “biologically prepared” for them. They were evolutionarily crucial. We feel and think in story-logic (story-causa...

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Festivals

150 Films, 50 Bands Showcased At Richmond International Film Festival

Richmond doesn’t need to be the next Austin – or Portland – though both cities have inspiring qualities. Look around, and the River City is already giving...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Power Of Movies To Change Our Hearts

When I was a child in Georgia, my mother would say, “drink some water now,” and “use the bathroom before we go,” so that when we got downtown, we wo...

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Bollywood

Need To Debunk Stereotypes Around Female Directors: Freida Pinto

India-born internationally-acclaimed actress Freida Pinto, who witnessed stardom with "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2008, wants to encourage women-driven projects through her ba...

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Hollywood

Stars To Attend WE Day Illinois To Celebrate Young People Taking Action On Social Issues

WE Day, an international series of inspiring stadium-sized events, announces the initial list of speakers, performers and presenters attending WE Day Illinois on March 1, 2...

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Human Rights

Prisoners Of A System

Terror suspects find themselves jailed for long periods without trial, and when proven innocent, find that the country does not make any kind of reparation On January 15, 1...

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Alternative Entertainment

Martin Scorsese On How 'Diversity Gaurantees Our Cultural Survival' In Film & In Everything Else

When Federico Fellini died in 1993, New York Times obituary writer Bruce Weber made a confession: “I never cared for his movies.” In a declaration of “rag...

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Gender

On The Road With Bangladesh's Only Female Rickshaw Puller

Bangladesh’s only known woman rickshaw puller, Mosammat Jasmine, may be a feminist icon but to the passengers she cycles around the streets of Chittagong, she is know...

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