AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Often, sustainability efforts in Africa focus on rural regions, despite the rapid expansion of urban areas. Catchment systems harvest stormwater during the rainy season, while greywater is treated using a biogas digester plant to make it potable. This results in unsustainable infrastructure that permeates growing cities.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Jassat’s focus on innovative, water-conserving design are in part inspired by the fears of Day Zero — a reference to the day when severe water shortage would force municipal water supplies to be switched off — and threats of reoccurring droughts throughout South Africa. “As

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

People have gotten so excited about taking on climate change by planting trees everywhere — with plans underway to grow a forest across the whole width of Africa , cover a third of India in forests, and plant 1 trillion trees around the world by 2030 — that the world is approaching a seed shortage.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role, Babatunde worked as a consultant at the World Bank Group, researching the effects of import duties and VAT on solar products in West Africa. Babatunde possesses a Ph.D. in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. Africa counts more entrepreneurs than any other continent. I think [the COVID-19 crisis] will just help accelerate that," he says.

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