News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1096

  1. Clean Energy Investment Sags Amid Mounting Climate Risks

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 16 (IPS) - Despite Wall Street’s nascent rediscovery of green energy, global investment in alternative energy declined by 12 percent last year.

  2. Obama, Nobel Laureates Urge Rise in U.S. Minimum Wage

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (IPS) - Seventy-five economists, including seven Nobel Prize laureates, sent an open letter to President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, urging them to raise the federal minimum wage.

  3. Educational Network Erases Borders

    - Inter Press Service

    MÁLAGA, Spain, Jan 15 (IPS) - Hundreds of students from Spain’s Canary Islands, Senegal and the Sahrawi refugee camps outside of Tindouf in western Algeria are meeting each other and breaking down cultural barriers thanks to the Red Educativa Sin Fronteras.

  4. OP-ED: Baka's Struggle a Footnote to Story of Cameroon's Growth

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (IPS) - A recent article by IPS journalist Ngala Killian Chimtom described the struggle of the Baka of Cameroon to maintain their indigenous culture and livelihoods while coping with the rapidly-changing environment around them.

  5. The Right Note Hits Taliban

    - Inter Press Service

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 15 (IPS) - For many years they could not sing, dance or play their favourite instruments. The performing artists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan lost their voice as the Taliban carried out terror attacks and banned music, calling it un-Islamic. But after tentative advances in recent months, the Pakistani province is alive with the sound of music once again.

  6. Big Coal Undercuts Landmark U.S. Overseas Investment Policy

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (IPS) - Environmentalists and some lawmakers are decrying a surprise move by conservative members of Congress to roll back landmark “clean energy” policies guiding U.S. investments in overseas power projects.

  7. Descendants of Slaves Report Military Abuses in Brazil

    - Inter Press Service

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 14 (IPS) - Residents of the small community of Rio dos Macacos, made up of descendants of slaves in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, reported to United Nations experts that they were attacked by military personnel from the Aratu naval base, which occupies part of their land.

  8. Zimbabwe's Rocky Economic Start to 2014

    - Inter Press Service

    HARARE, Jan 14 (IPS) - Evelyn Mhasi, a qualified nurse, has not worked in her profession for the last seven years. Hiring in several Zimbabwean government sectors, including nursing, remains frozen despite colleges churning out skilled professionals each year.

  9. Chinese Dominance in Kenyan Digital Migration Raises Alarm

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Jan 14 (IPS) - Controversy and confusion have marked Kenya’s transition from analogue to digital television in keeping with the 2015 International Telecommunication Union deadline when all analogue signal transmission will cease. 

  10. Development Follows Devastation from Brazilian Dam

    - Inter Press Service

    PETROLANDIA, Brazil, Jan 13 (IPS) - Valdenor de Melo has been waiting for 27 years for the land and cash compensation he is due because his old farm was left underwater when the Itaparica hydroelectric dam was built on the São Francisco river in Brazil’s semiarid Northeast.

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