Mobile laundry vans equipped with solar-powered washing and drying machines travel through city neighborhoods, offering free laundry services to unhoused and low-income communities. Each compact vehicle can handle dozens of loads per day, running entirely on clean solar energy. Local organizations and volunteers work together to bring these vans to parks, underpasses, and shelters, offering...
Day: October 25, 2025
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AASuP Opens 6th Africa Sustainability Report and SDGs Awards in Accra
The Association of African Sustainability Practitioners (AASuP) has opened the 6th Africa Sustainability Report and Think Energy SDGs Awards 2025, a two-day gathering focused on accelerating the continent’s progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event, which convened policymakers, academics, private-sector leaders and development partners on day one, spotlighted critical areas including...
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Reactor vessel delivered for El Dabaa unit I
The first reactor vessel has been delivered to the El Dabaa construction site of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant.The 330-tonne reactor vessel was manufactured at Rosatom’s Izhora plant, in a process which took 41 months. The reactor vessel is about 13 metres long and 4.5 metres in diameter. The service life is for an initial...
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Trump greenlights Arctic drilling, reversing Biden’s Alaska oil ban
(Bloomberg) — The Trump administration is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits.Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Thursday the agency was opening the 1.56 million acre of tundra on the state’s North Slope...
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Lower U.S. tariffs to offset India’s shift from Russian oil- Nomura
(Bloomberg) – India’s shift away from discounted Russian crude should be more than offset by gains from likely lower U.S. tariffs, Nomura Holdings Inc. said Friday.U.S. President Donald Trump has been repeatedly asking India to halt purchase of Russian oil, and economists Sonal Varma and Aurodeep Nandi say the shift could pave the way for...