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  • How solar power is keeping Lebanon's lights on

    Laure Delacloche

    May 17, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Lebanon

    People in Lebanon are installing their own rooftop solar panels and batteries to have constant access to energy instead of relying on expensive and unreliable community diesel generators.

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  • Domestic Workers in Lebanon Are Making a Dramatic Escape

    Laure Delacloche

    January 07, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Lebanon

    Ethiopian domestic workers stuck in Lebanon can now rely on help from an organization started by Ethiopian women who were once in their shoes. Victims of labor exploitation have a hard time escaping abusive situations, leaving them stranded in Lebanon without a place to stay or a means to get home.

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  • Beirut Is Greening the Aftermath of Disaster

    Laure Delacloche

    August 03, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    In 2020, a devastating explosion in Beirut that came from a warehouse released 800,000 and one million tons of construction and demolition waste and 20,000 tons of shattered glass into the city. The waste was being thrown into landfills. However, landfills are notoriously bad for the environment. Out of that rubble an idea was created; disposing waste sustainably. Rubble Mountains was created specifically to do this. They've been able to restore four quarries, use materials to create public amenities, and diverting up to 50 tons of demolition waste from landfills.

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