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GAIA Africa Commemorates World Cities Day with a Campaign on Electric Vehicle Batteries

The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Africa held a social media campaign focusing on the crucial topic of Electric Vehicle (EV) Batteries. As the shift towards electric vehicles accelerates, the campaign aims to tackle the life-cycle challenges of EV  batteries and sustainability issues associated with the materials used in them. Batteries are crucial to harnessing the abundant energy from renewable sources like wind and solar, ultimately helping to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. However, as with any energy system, they present their own set of challenges and impacts. With rapidly evolving battery technologies and the push for electrified transportation means, it is imperative to address urbanisation, waste and pollution concerns of EV batteries. In the last few months, GAIA has published a series of 8 papers bringing about essential information to the public about EV batteries. The series starts by  explaining the technical aspect of how an EV battery is mad
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CELEBRATE YOURSELF - Elvira Jordan

CELEBRATE YOURSELF - Elvira Jordan Good Morning Beloved! Sometime last week, I was in a negative head space…kind of. You know that type when you just can’t keep your mind in the present. Always taking yourself to things that happened a few days, weeks, months or years before, or just thinking about the far future. Most of the time, such reflections never come with happy or joyful memories. It is either regret or anxiety. Good thing I was able to catch myself in my thoughts and switch it up all the time. Rather than dwelling on things that I can’t change and things that haven’t even happened yet, I decided to reflect on the beautiful parts of my life, the things I have going on for me and some of the milestones I have accomplished.  It has been a roller coaster season for a lot of us, especially those who live in Nigeria. This year has been quite challenging, from the inflation rate and resultant increase in the price of petrol, ever rising dollar rates, insecurity etc. In some parts of
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SLOW IT DOWN - Elvira Jordan

SLOW IT DOWN - Elvira Jordan Good Morning Beloved! We have come to that time of the year when everyone is on alert… on edge. This is the season of rush and desperation, especially in these climes where everyone is trying to prove their worth. We want to achieve all that we have planned for the year. We want to end the year with a bang. We want to close the year with a lot of victories. We want to show our village people how successful we are, when we travel home for Christmas. This need to end the year in the best way, has given birth to a kind of rush that makes the “ember month mythology”; that evil things like accidents, ritual killings and other tragedies are bound to happen in the last quarter of every year. Some people link this mythology to spiritual mysteries that they associate with the end of the year. On the contrary, I don’t think there is any negative spiritual thing linked to the “ember month” season. It is simply a case of “cause and effect”.  The adrenaline rush people
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VACANCY: COOK (Port Harcourt)

VACANCY (Port Harcourt) Cook A family is looking to employ a live-in cook REQUIREMENTS ·           Preferably male ·          Certified Cook ·           Accommodation available LOCATION Peter Odili Road, Port Harcourt SALARY To be negotiated To apply, send CV to jobs.elviraspen@gmail.com with COOK as the subject. **** For more information and job updates, join our WhatsApp Job Hub: https://chat.whatsapp.com/ISoSlhChpNp55q9IXPGguB Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elviraspen?mibextid=LQQJ4d Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elviraspen11?igsh=Znp1YTk4cHU2NG1l&utm_source=qr Read, comment and share with friends
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IGNORE THE NOISE OF THE WORLD - Elvira Jordan

IGNORE THE NOISE OF THE WORLD - Elvira Jordan Good Morning Beloved!!! Today, I want you to reflect on the happenings in the society for any given period. Have you noticed that there is a constant circle of negative events and happenings around the world, to keep us on our toes? Whenever you switch on your radio, television or you just decide to cruise up on social media, the media always has a load of negative or devastating events that keeps people talking, lamenting, criticizing or just simply holds our minds in a constant vibration of fear, worry and anxiety.  In the world we live today, so many things are trying to make us loose focus in the most important things that we need, by dragging at our attention with negativity. Everything in the news, on social media, on conventional media, is trying to distract us.  It may seem like a normal life situation to have negativity happening around us, but it is not just a coincidence. It represents something very serious in the general progre
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ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS AT THE AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CONTER COP DEMANDS POLICIES ON METHANE REDUCTION

Environmental activists have called on African governments to enact laws and policies that protect the environment from methane emission, as the world moves towards zero waste and climate change mitigation. This was stated at a side event organized by GAIA Africa, in collaboration with Community Development Advocacy Foundation (CODAF), Center for Earth Works (CFEW), Zero Waste Senegal and Andasonia Green, as part of the ongoing African People’s Counter Cop by the Africa Climate Justice Collective (ACJC) holding in Sally Senegal. Presenting a document with the theme, “Zero Waste As A Solution”, Coordinator of GAIA Africa, Niven Reddy stated that Waste is the third largest source of methane, primarily from landfilling organic waste, which is over 80 times as potent as CO2. He also revealed that the fastest and most economical way to reduce emissions from organic waste is to simply stop putting the waste in landfills, by scaling up proven organic waste management strategies. ” Many of
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KINDNESS IS AN INVESTMENT - Elvira Jordan

KINDNESS IS AN INVESTMENT - Elvira Jordan Good Morning Beloved! 😊 I was walking along a busy road one day and I saw a beautiful lady who should be a few years younger than me, struggling with some bags. Normally, that eternal beef between ladies (which I still don’t understand) would have made me pass without even noticing. But I did notice and offered to help. The surprise on her face, that a young girl like herself would offer help…. it was everything.  I helped her with her bags to a nearest bustop where she took a cab and we bid each other farewell. The smiles on her face and many many “thank you! God bless you” was enough payment for me. To my soul, it was like a chilled glass of juice on a sunny day. Fast forward to many months later when I moved to a new city that is known for its harshness and cruelty, I had a called a cab and had this big luggage I couldn’t lift into the cab. The cab man sat still and watched me struggle with the bags, pretending not to see. Then out of nowhe
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