The Daily Populous

Chicago, which has committed to power its 900 municipal buildings with 100 percent renewable electricity by 2025, has joined a seven-city collaboration to request price estimates for renewable electricity.

The collaboration, led by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, also includes Los Angeles, Houston, Portland, OR, Orlando, FL, and Evanston, IL.

The cities expect to issue a single request for information (RFI) to renewable developers later this summer. »

Johannesburg - The Constitutional Court has confirmed a Western Cape High Court ruling that certain parts of the Promotion Access to Information Act (PAIA) fail to provide for the recording of private political party funding.

The court ruled that voters have the right to know who funds political parties.

“It is declared that information on private funding of political parties and independent candidates must be recorded, persevered and made accessible,” said Mogoeng. »

Japan’s commitment to addressing its dismal record on work-life balance has been called into question after a civil servant was punished for “habitually” slipping away from his desk a few minutes early to buy a bento lunch.

A spokesman for the bureau told AFP: “The lunch break is from noon to 1pm.

The worker had violated a public service law requiring officials to “concentrate on their jobs”, according to the bureau. »

You get hooked up to a ventilator, the machine forcing air into your lungs because your diaphragm is paralyzed.

She was just hanging out, hoping for a crab snack, when you went all Curious George on her.

Of course it’s part of our nature to gawk at cool animals we find on the beach. »