Greening Our Planet, One Bulb at a Time
by Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
At 6,500 miles, Los Angeles has the largest network of streets and roads and the second largest number of street lights – 210,000 – to light the way. In 2009, the City of Los Angeles teamed up with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) to find out how much those lights were costing the City - and our climate.
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Africa
Partnerships Bring Opportunity to Uganda
Today, I had the privilege of traveling with President Clinton to three separate events in Uganda.While each event focused on a different issue – education, the provision of hearing aids, and averting childhood deaths due to diarrhea – there was a common theme throughout the day: Our challenges will not be solved...
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Africa 2012: Day 5
Yesterday in Rwanda President Clinton visited the Mount Meru SoyCo factory, a Clinton Hunter Development Initiative project outside of Kigali, and the Rwamagana School of Nursing and Midwifery to discuss the Clinton Health Access Initiative's new Human Resources for Health program. View photos of the visits. Chelsea Clinton shares her thoughts on our blog about her visit to Rwanda and Valerie Alexander, director of marketing and communications for the Clinton Foundation, discusses the impact of seeing the Foundation's work in Rwanda on our blog.
Mount Meru SoyCo Limited was established in 2009…
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Building Systems That Change Lives in Rwanda
On staff, I have the privilege of communicating the Foundation's great work to people the world over. Yet this past week, people have been communicating the Foundation's great work to me.
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Letter from Rwanda
My father and I just spent two incredible days in Rwanda seeing work supported by the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI), and catalyzed through the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) – always with the Rwandan government setting the priorities and working as...
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Africa 2012: Day 4
Yesterday President Clinton traveled to Rwanda for the opening of the Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence, which is the result of a Clinton Global Initiative commitment by the Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation and Partners in Health. Amitabh Desai, director of foreign policy for the Clinton Foundation, reflects on our blog about the significance of the center and President Clinton's...
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