Tác giả: Đào Thu Hằng

I'm from Hanoi, Viet Nam. I'm an author of Dot Chuoi Non (dotchuoinon.com/author/hangbelu/), a blog on Positive thinking, founded by Dr. Tran Dinh Hoanh, an attorney in Washington DC. I'm a co-founder of Conversations on Vietnam Development - cvdvn.net, a virtual think tank. I am a co-founder of two companies in Viet Nam working on children education services. I advise companies on STEAM education, English language education for children and students in Vietnam. I'm studying the Buddha's teaching and the teaching of Jesus. I practice mindful living including meditation. I hold a PhD on Sustainable Energy Systems from University of Lisbon and Aalto University. I graduated from Hanoi University of Technology on Environmental Engineering. I obtained a Master degree of the same major from Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University. My English-language blog at: hangbelu.wordpress/. I play table tennis as a hobby.

Phá hơn 100 ha rừng để… kịp thi hoa hậu!

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ 1 bình luận

(PL)- Phú Yên cho doanh nghiệp phá hơn 100 ha rừng phòng hộ ven biển để làm sân golf khi chưa giao đất, chưa chuyển mục đích sử dụng…

Ngày 21-4, ông Mai Kim Lộc, Phó Giám đốc Sở TN&MT tỉnh Phú Yên, xác nhận UBND tỉnh đã cho phép phá 116 ha rừng phòng hộ ven biển tại xã An Phú, TP Tuy Hòa để Công ty TNHH New City Việt Nam thực hiện dự án khu du lịch cao cấp New City Việt Nam.

Điều đáng nói là khu rừng phòng hộ ven biển này bị phá trắng nhưng đến nay vẫn chưa trình hồ sơ lên Thủ tướng để xin chuyển mục đích sử dụng đất.

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Monsanto Tribunal Judges Slam Monsanto over Violation of Human Rights

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ 3 bình luận
Posted on Apr 18 2017 – 4:57pm by Sustainable Pulse

Today the five international judges for the Monsanto Tribunal presented their legal opinion, which include key conclusions, both on the conduct of Monsanto and on the need for important changes to international laws governing multinational corporations.

International_Monsanto_Tribunal

The judges conclude that Monsanto has engaged in practices that have impinged on the basic human right to a healthy environment, the right to food and the right to health. Additionally, Monsanto’s conduct has a negative impact on the right of scientists to freely conduct indispensable research. Tiếp tục đọc “Monsanto Tribunal Judges Slam Monsanto over Violation of Human Rights” →

Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

poynter_If you know Art Cullen, it’s not exactly a surprise to learn his initial words upon watching the livestream of the Pulitzer announcements and learning he’d won for editorial writing.

“Holy shit,” he yelled out to his brother, John, the publisher of the family-run, 10-person Storm Lake (Iowa) Times.

The only surprise was that there wasn’t a longer string of un-family-like adjectives or adverbs.

Big-paper editorial writers, perhaps laboring in well-appointed individual offices in relative urban splendor, be apprised: Writing editorials is merely one of a multiple daily duties of Art Cullen, Monday’s Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing.

Sitting in an office he calls a “gray metal wreck,” he’s de facto city editor, part-time reporter and editorial writer at the twice-weekly, 3,000-circulation Storm Lake, Iowa Times. Tiếp tục đọc “Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business” →

Tiêu điểm kinh tế – Gỡ rào cản để năng lượng tái tạo phát triển

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

Chính phủ đặt mục tiêu ưu tiên phát triển năng lượng tái tạo nhằm đa dạng hóa cơ cấu nguồn điện cũng như hướng tới một nền kinh tế xanh và sạch hơn. Tuy nhiên, việc khai thác nguồn năng lượng tái tạo đến nay vẫn chưa phát huy được hết lợi thế sẵn có từ thiên nhiên. Vậy đâu là mấu chốt cần tháo gỡ để phát triển mạnh hơn nữa nguồn năng lượng xanh tại Việt Nam?

Canary in the coal mine Lacklustre power demand in Asia throws a cloud over coal

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

A surge in renewable energy is another threat to the black stuff’s future

From the print edition | Finance and economics

Apr 1st 2017

economist_THE Hazelwood power station in Australia’s state of Victoria started generating electricity 52 years ago. The stark symbol of an era when coal was king, Hazelwood was one of Australia’s dirtiest: its fuel was the Latrobe valley’s brown coal, a bigger polluter than the black sort. The station was due finally to close on March 31st. Days earlier, chimney stacks were demolished at Munmorah, a black-coal station north of Sydney, already closed. Australia has shut ten coal-fired power stations over the past seven years, yet coal still generates about three-quarters of its electricity. Tiếp tục đọc “Canary in the coal mine Lacklustre power demand in Asia throws a cloud over coal” →

Một năm của ‘Chính phủ kiến tạo, hành động’

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

news.zing.vn_Ngày 7/4/2016, ông Nguyễn Xuân Phúc thực hiện nghi lễ nhậm chức Thủ tướng lần đầu sau khi được Quốc hội bầu với hơn 90% số phiếu thuận.

Hai ngày sau, Chính phủ của ông được kiện toàn với 27 thành viên, chính thức nhận nhiệm vụ.

Zing.vn trao đổi với các chuyên gia trong và ngoài nước về một năm nhận nhiệm vụ của Chính phủ mới, vắt qua 2 nhiệm kỳ khóa XII và XIII.

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From dams to basins: mapping across scales

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Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

Gutsy girls skateboard, climb trees, clamber around, fall down, scrape their knees, get right back up — and grow up to be brave women. Learn how to spark a little productive risk-taking and raise confident girls with stories and advice from firefighter, paraglider and all-around adventurer Caroline Paul.

Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure

TED

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This new REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ 1 bình luận

This new REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report presents views of 114 renowned energy experts from around the world, on the feasibility and challenges of achieving a 100% renewable energy future. Their thoughts are grouped into 12 Great Debates ranging from the future of heating and transport, the interconnection of sectors, the role of mega-cities and what utilities of the future could look like. The report does not predict the future but should spur debate about the opportunities and challenges of a 100% renewable energy future.

Read more at: http://www.ren21.net/future-of-renewables/global-futures-report/

Substandard, spurious, falsely labelled, falsified and counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products

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WHO

Key facts

  • SSFFC medical products may cause harm to patients and fail to treat the diseases for which they were intended.
  • They lead to loss of confidence in medicines, healthcare providers and health systems.
  • They affect every region of the world.
  • SSFFC medical products from all main therapeutic categories have been reported to WHO including medicines, vaccines and in vitro diagnostics.
  • Anti-malarials and antibiotics are amongst the most commonly reported SSFFC medical products.
  • Both Generic and Innovator medicines are falsified including very expensive products for cancer to very inexpensive products for treatment of pain.
  • They can be found in illegal street markets, via unregulated websites through to pharmacies, clinics and hospitals.

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UPDATE 1-Companies to invest $3.3 billion in solar projects in Vietnam’s Daklak province

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

By Mai Nguyen

Reuters_Vietnam’s Daklak province on Saturday granted licences and signed memorandums of understanding for the development of several solar power projects worth a combined $3.3 billion.

Vietnam has been mostly reliant on coal-fired and hydro power plants to accommodate its annual electricity demand growth of around 11 percent, but wants to boost its renewable energy output amid rising resources scarcity and environmental issues.

U.S. group AES Corporation signed an memorandum of understanding with the province to invest $750 million in a solar plant with expected capacity of 300-500 megawatts.

Vietnamese private firm Xuan Thien Daklak on Saturday received a provincial government licence to invest $2.2 billion in a 2,000-megawatt solar power project in Daklak province in the Central Highlands.

South Korea’s Solar Park Global also received a certificate to invest $45 million in a solar power project and Vietnamese Long Thanh Infrastructure Development and Investment Company will invest $308 million in a 250-megawatt solar plant.

Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are seeking to secure sources of solar energy and have introduced targets to fire up green energy generation as global agreements to curb pollution take effect. (Reporting by Mai Nguyen; Editing by Sam Holmes)