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Environmental Talk: Managing Utility Bills Now Requires Ingenuity
Not only is your TV set emptying your wallet when turned on, it may be emptying your piggy bank even when it is turned off!
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Mechanical Pitfalls: What to avoid while driving in Uganda
With Uganda's multitude and increasing size of potholes, an average driver finds him/herself executing no less than a dozen emergency stops a day.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Uganda's Sewerage Problems: Where Does the Buck Stop?
Uganda's progress downhill in sanitary terms went so well that most of Kampala's residents now compete for the sidewalks with openly flowing sewage on the streets.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Electric Lingo: What does it mean?
The terminologies describing the field of electricity are demystified and given practical explanations.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Environmental Talk: Charcoal, Uganda's Darling Fuel
Each batch of charcoal is made in its own oven, which is broken apart to retrieve the charcoal after the burning process.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Environmental Talk: What has Spilling Petroleum Products got to do with our Potholes?
A thin, slippery film of spilled diesel stays around after a spillage but becomes invisible to the eye.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Environmental Talk: From China with lots of lead
Children visiting from UK admire toys at Garden City Shopping Mall, Kampala.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Environmental Talk: Green Water in our Pipes - Chickens coming home to roost
Residents of Kampala wake up to green water in their taps.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Views from Fiona: Commonwealth Heads Of State General Meeting- Kampala's New Look
Providing connectivity to many rural Ugandans.
Fiona Abaasa
Environmental Talk: Moving Ugandas Factories Away from Jinja Comes at a Cost
Should we encourage factories to be located near power sources?
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Mabira Forest: Cost Of Disappearing Forests in Uganda
Does industrialisation have to swallow what is left of Uganda's forests?
Gerald Businge
Environmental Talk: Do we need Sports Utility Vehicles or SUVs?
Land of the Pajero.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Environmental Talk At UGPulse: Alternative Energy Solutions for Ugandans
In Uganda, even a nursery kid knows what Umeme means-- black outs!
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Environmental Talk At UGPulse: What is in Your Rubbish?
Of garbage (rubbish) and recycling.
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli
Environmental Talk At UGPulse: Turn Down That Noise
How fast are you losing your sense of hearing?
Ivan Kibuka-Kiguli