September 2010
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“There is no romance in rural life. Rural living is the largest single killer...”
– Canadian journalist Doug Saunders has written a book called “Arrival City.” Like my thesis, it promotes the importance of informal settlements in urban centres, and their sophisticated networks that support new arrivals to the city as well as permanent residents who begin to change...
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“Providing modern energy to the very poor—the population that the United Nations...”
– The Solvable Problem of Energy Poverty
A side note from this quote: “The UN has called for nations to set aside 70 cents of every $100 generated by their economic activity to fight poverty. But only five European countries now meet that level of giving, and the United States, which has never...