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Challenge for Suriname

Challenge for Suriname

Out of your Box thoughts eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, March 1st, 2023– Dutch companies will import green hydrogen from Spain, which can produce more sustainable energy than it can consume itself. Spain and Portugal also produce more solar and wind energy than they need themselves.They convert that energy into hydrogen for export.Dutch companies will bring this hydrogen…
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Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland.

Brazil’s Defender of the Indigenous Brings Their Fight to the Shed

Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/arts/design/brazil-yanomami-indigenous-andujar-photographs-shed.html?smid=em-share

Funds for Sustainable living in Suriname Forest

Funds for Sustainable living in Suriname Forest

Five million euros eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 8 Feb 2023 — The European Union has approved a grant of ten million euros for the project ‘Sustainable Forest Livelihood for communities of Guyana and Suriname’. The protection and sustainable use of the Amazon rainforest in Suriname and Guyana is the main goal of this project.The intention is that…
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illegal Gold mining

Illegal Gold Mining in Brazil/Suriname

Causing Death and Destruction and Desitution [ = extreme poverty ]Brazilians guilty of polluting Suriname ?? Amsterdam, 7 feb 2023 –Brazil’s Minister for Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara described the presence of illegal mining (known locally as “garimpo”) in the Yanomami Indigenous Land as destructive, Agencia Brasil reported Monday. The official spent Sunday night at the…
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Yanomami Woman

Brazil possibly responsible genocide

Not only in Brazil but also in Suriname eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, February 1st, 2023– Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice  Luís Roberto Barroso has ordered an investigation by the Attorney General of the Republic, the Military Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety, and the Regional Superintendence of the Federal Police of Roraima into…
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Brazil Presidential Election

Brazil’s Presidential Election Will Determine the Planet’s Future

Opinion Video Featuring Txai SuruíBy Agnes Walton and Alessandra Orofino Video by Agnes Walton and Alessandra Orofino Ms. Walton is a producer with Opinion Video. Ms. Orofino is a co-founder and the executive director of Nossas.On Oct. 30, Brazilians go to the polls to elect their next president. But at stake is something far more…
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The immidiate Future

antonfoek Amsterdam, October 1st 2022– At the age of 57, John B. Goodenough invented the lithium battery which powers all our smart phones, tablets and laptops – as well as electric cars. 37 years later at the age of 94, John has unveiled a new, ultra-efficient, low cost battery which uses a sodium or lithium…
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Kakadu

UN global effort

Agreement to conserve and harness biodiversity. eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, July 18th 2022– Efforts to protect and sustain the natural world are just as crucial as global action on climate change – and are similarly beset by a lack of concerted decision-making. The natural world is in trouble.  Some 40 per cent of the world’s amphibians, 25…
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Lightyear 0 Solar Car

A Bright Horizon — Global Premiere of the World’s First Solar Car

The global premiere of the first production-ready solar car, a vehicle for change. We believe in a world where driving is clean and effortless. Unrestricted by plug-charging. In 2016, we began building it: a revolutionary electric car, capable of harnessing the sun’s power. Thousands of lightbulb moments brought us here, to its official premiere. A…
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Brazil Amazon

China’s Greater Amazon Footprint

And in Suriname China has become a major stakeholder in the Amazon region’s infrastructure and exports. Its new domestic orientation to ‘ecological civilisation’ brings some hope of greening the trade partnership. Sarita Reed, Lulu Ning Hui/ Anton JieSamFoek Amsterdam, May 17 2022– Chinese investment in Brazil reflects “a marriage of interests”, according to Tulio Cariello, research…
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