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Condoms: Use Them to Slow Climate Change, Or Make a Soccer Ball

by Deric Stowell on September 17th, 2009

Condoms: Use Them to Slow Climate Change, Or Make a Soccer Ball

<snip> from TreeHugger.com </snip>

Lack of Access to Both Reproductive Resources and Resources in General Can Add Up to Conflicting Use of What’s Available
A shortage of and limited access to contraception in Africa is a major issue related to population growth and therefore environmental damage and even greater limited access to vital resources. However, a lack of access to resources means people will use whatever they have on hand to create what they want and need. Africa is a continent rich with people who come up with solutions using just what’s around them (remember the Ugandan woman who made her own battery charger, or the solar vest idea for Boda Boda operators, or all the things that came out of Maker Faire Africa…) except this is one use of a resource that we see has a far greener application than becoming a football:

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