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School Funding: Do Poor Children Get Their Fair Share?

Research suggests increased spending on education can improve student outcomes, especially among low-income students. This means that targeted increases in funding could he...

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Feminism Is Helping Women Recover From Substance Abuse

Every Wednesday for the past month, from 10:30am to 3:00pm, five women have been meeting in a training room behind St Leonard's Shoreditch Church, London, to discuss femini...

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This Indian Toy Inventor Has Made Science Fun & Sustainable For Over 30 Years

Tin Tanker, Stretchable Stomach, Coconut Creature and Buckling Basket - alliterations are not the only thing Arvind Gupta is a maestro at. For over 30 years, this Indian sc...

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This Young Architect Just Created Sustainable Furniture For Rural Kids

Say hello to the ‘transformer of furniture’ created by an young architect determined to transform the quality of life in rural India. Nishan Nazer, who received...

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This Indian Village Is Making Jeans Out Of Banana Fibre

Things getting a little stuffy in those jeans? Slide into a pair of banana fibre jeans and liberate those sweaty legs!
Anakaputhur, a weavers’ village located on...

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We Need More Truth In Our Talk About Sanitation

Sopan Joshi’s “Jal Thal Mal” is a book in Hindi about the invisible connections that sustain us in our life on the planet. It shows how sanitation is not ...

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What The COP21 Climate Agreement Means For Fashion

On Saturday in Paris, the gavel came down on two weeks of fraught talks, resulting in a landmark agreement between representatives of 195 countries to cut emissions of gree...

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Sustainable Development Goal On Energy (SDG7) & The World Bank Group

Access to clean, modern, sustainable energy is critical for improving the health and livelihoods of billions of people around the world. There is growing evidence linking s...

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The Urban Farmers Battling Bangalore's Concrete Jungle

In Ramagondanahalli village, Muniraju Hanumanthappa bends over his clay-coloured soil surrounded by bright green spinach leaves. He quickly prunes the plants, dwarfed by th...

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A Fish That Can Father A Near Clone Of Itself

Scientists have discovered a fish carrying genes only from its father in the nucleus of its cells. Found in a type of fish called Squalius alburnoides, which normally inhab...

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