The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) is a project created by two Swiss government agencies: the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA). It is located in Dübendorf, which is in the canton of Zurich.
The U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are rules set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit the amount of six harmful pollutants in the air. These pollutants cause smog, acid rain, and other health problems.
Household Air Pollution (HAP) is a major type of indoor air pollution (IAP) that mainly happens because of cooking and heating methods in developing countries. In many areas, cooking is done using fuels like wood, charcoal, animal waste, and plant materials. These fuels are often burned indoors without proper ventilation, which puts millions of people—especially women and children—at risk for serious health problems.
One part of energy poverty is not having access to clean, modern fuels and tools for cooking. As of 2020, more than 2.6 billion people in developing countries often cook using fuels like wood, animal waste, coal, or kerosene. Burning these fuels in open fires or traditional stoves creates harmful air pollution inside homes.
The Clean Cooking Alliance, which was previously called the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, is a non-profit group that works with the United Nations Foundation to help spread clean cooking technologies in countries with lower and middle incomes. Each year, four million people die from health problems caused by air pollution inside homes that comes from using open fires and fuels that are not clean for cooking. The Alliance was launched in 2010 by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was then the U.S.
One part of energy poverty is not having access to clean, modern fuels and tools for cooking. As of 2020, more than 2.6 billion people in developing countries often cook using fuels like wood, animal waste, coal, or kerosene. Burning these fuels in open fires or traditional stoves creates harmful air inside homes, leading to about 3.8 million deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Ignacio J. Pérez Arriaga was born on June 23, 1948, in Madrid, Spain. He is a Spanish professor who teaches engineering, economics, and how to regulate the electric power sector.
In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are designed to gather, hold, bounce off, and spread solar energy as heat during winter and block excess heat during summer. This method is called passive solar design because it does not use machines or electrical systems, unlike active solar heating systems. The main goal of designing a passive solar building is to use the local climate effectively by carefully studying the area.
Solar power, also called solar electricity, is the process of changing sunlight into electricity. This can happen directly through photovoltaics (PV), which are solar panels that use the photovoltaic effect to create an electric current. It can also happen indirectly through concentrated solar power systems, which use mirrors or lenses and tracking systems to focus sunlight into a hot spot, often to power a steam turbine.
“Solar Sister” is a song by the American alternative rock band The Posies. It was released in 1993 as the second single from their album Frosting on the Beater.