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Video: Aga Khan Planning and Building Service receives Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy (June 2011)
London, United Kingdom, 16/06/2011 – The world’s most prestigious green energy awards tonight announced that the Aga Khan Planning and Building Service’s (AKPBS) innovative Building and Construction Improvement Programme (BACIP) has received the Award for Avoided Deforestation at this year’s Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. Princess Zahra Aga Khan, Head of the Social Welfare department of the […]
AKPBS, Pakistan: Saving trees and warming homes | The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy
In North Pakistan, winters in the mountains are harsh and natural disasters are part of life. Wide-scale forest destruction causes damage from flooding and disrupts the country’s water supply because the region acts as a watershed. Over 14 years ago, the Aga Khan Planning and Building Service (AKPBS) began a concerted drive to make homes […]
Photographs from Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2011 ceremony
London, United Kingdom, 16 June 2011 – The Aga Khan Planning and Building Service’s (AKPBS) innovative Building and Construction Improvement Programme (BACIP) received the Award for Avoided Deforestation at the 2011 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. http://www.ashdenawards.org/media/photos/2011_ceremony http://www.akdn.org/photos_show.asp?Sid=177
Video: Ashden Award for Aga Khan Planning and Building Service’s Building and Construction Improvement Programme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzKznNA7lRY http://rockhopper.tv/programmes/505 http://rockhopper.tv/programmes/506 http://www.akdn.org/Content/1055 Session 4 includes a keynote speech from Stephen O’Brien MP, films and presentations from Pankaj Patel (Abellon CleanEnergy), Suraj Wahab Ologburo (Toyola Energy), Qayum Ali Shah (Aga Khan Planning & Building Service, Pakistan), followed by a Q&A session chaired by Madeleine Bunting http://youtu.be/DIZYqGDPaBA
Speech: Princess Zahra Aga Khan speech at the 2011 Ashden Awards
(following a film on AKPBS’s BACIP programme) Those were the rugged valleys of Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan area. It is a lot further than Devon but we would love to have you come visit us anyway. It is an area of high seismic activity and frequent natural disasters. Here, the consumption of natural resources has been causing […]
Live Updates from Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy
Princess Zara just spoke on behalf of Aga Khan foundation! http://twitter.com/#!/GreenBeltMovmnt/status/81439903942057984
Ashden Awards – live webcast
Aga Khan Planning and Building Service a Finalist for Ashden Awards — watch the live webcast on 15 June http://bit.ly/m2SHqp http://twitter.com/#!/TheIsmaili/status/80693760396234753 Earlier related: Aga Khan Planning and Building Service Pakistan’s innovative project selected for 2011 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy All related: Aga Khan Planning & Building Services
Aga Khan Planning and Building Service Pakistan’s innovative project selected for 2011 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy
A Pakistani project has been selected as a finalist for the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2011. A statement here on Tuesday said that the finalists will compete for more than pounds 120,000 prize money. It said that the winners would be announced at a ceremony to be held in London on June 16. The […]
Small-scale tech can transform women’s lives in a big way – The East African
The electrification of remote villages in the north of Pakistan, introduced by another NGO, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP), shows how three simple ingredients — running water, community organisation and some technical know-how — can help women. The district of Chitral and the northern areas of Pakistan lie where the Karakoram, the Himalaya […]
Photo Essay: Aga Khan Development Network Work in the Mountains of Pakistan
ABSTRACT: The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is abundant with activities and projects around the world. The visionary Imam of the Ismailis, His Highness the Aga Khan, is constantly on the go to sign new accords and agreements as well as initiate new projects around the world. With so much development work taking place, some […]
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Clean Energy Pioneer Aga Khan Planning & Building Services Receives Prestigious Environmental Prize
London, 16 June 2011 – The world’s most prestigious green energy awards tonight announced that the Aga Khan Planning and Building Service’s (AKPBS) innovative Building and Construction Improvement Programme (BACIP) has received the Award for Avoided Deforestation at this year’s Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. Princess Zahra Aga Khan, Head of the Social Welfare department […]
Energy is central to development | Madeleine Bunting – guardian.co.uk
Affordable renewable energy needs to be taken seriously as the crucial ingredient of sustainable development, and the Ashden Awards recognise this Energy, it seems, is the Cinderella of development policy. Listen to governments, aid agencies and the big foundations, and the priorities have been malaria, maternal mortality, vaccinations, HIV – health has hoovered up attention […]
