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ECHO - Selbsthilfegruppe

Here i want to present you an organization, we are running here in Germany. Its name is Echo. There is a close collaboration between ECHO and PatchworkThe aim is to help disabled persons, also woman und children in Sri Lanka who were affected by the cruel war. The plan is to helm them sustainable. We work with both local and international NGOs, and government agencies to provide services focusing on sustainable development and community…

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Added by Elaventhan Arunakirinathan on June 5, 2012 at 8:59am — No Comments

sustainable water management in mideast

The Mideast is a extremly dry region. Therefore we have to use the water thrifty. The lakes are in danger of salinization.

„Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies” or shortly SMART is a research group which is working in that region. Most of the farmers are using ground water for their plants. One approach to be sustainable is that they can also use absorbed surface water. SMART…

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Added by Elaventhan Arunakirinathan on May 21, 2012 at 2:45pm — No Comments

Light Up Africa

John Harkness, Alan Hurt, Jason Schwebke and Mike Sutarik, students at the Northern Illinois University, invented a sustainable way to create electricity by using the movement in our everyday lives such as driving bicycles and motorbikes. The long-term goal of their project Light Up Africa is "to provide safe, inexpensive electrical power to the 1.4 billion people worldwide who currently do not have access to electricity" (…

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Added by Matthias Kauke on May 13, 2012 at 5:35pm — No Comments

IMAGINE3

In the year of 2020 I will take a stand for environment protection. In this case, I will celebrate a special day for supporting the sustainable energy. This day should show the german population how easy you could produce energy by yourself. I will try to catch lots of people to a huge public place, where they should produce energy by riding a bicycle. Today we already have bike-constructions for producing energy by riding it. Have a look at this video…

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Added by Kim Gross-Hardt on May 10, 2012 at 4:22pm — No Comments

On EcoTourism...

I decided to dedicate a part of my blog for your input about challenging food security and water scarcity, sustainable energy sources, empowering women and perserving Indigeneous Knowledge!

My thesis question is: what is the impact of tourism and how to promote a more sustainable travels?

I chose Sinai Peninsula in Egypt for a case study!

Why Sinai?? because it has biblical, has ancient history and is a World Heritage to perserve, it has a diversified ecology from wetlands, red…

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Added by Aseel Honein on May 18, 2010 at 4:16pm — 9 Comments

[+] - - - - - Strategy for a Sustainable Rockville, Maryland



"Why do We Want to be Sustainable?
As a sustainable community, Rockville residents will…
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Added by Bonan Zhang on May 18, 2010 at 2:50am — No Comments

Stakeholder groups: the next step in ensuring sustainable fisheries development

Jacques Cousteau said " We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about — farming replacing hunting. Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians." Interview (17 July 1971)… Continue

Added by Kevin DiVico on May 12, 2010 at 8:48am — No Comments

Stakeholder groups: the next step in ensuring sustainable fisheries development

Jacques Cousteau said " We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about — farming replacing hunting. Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians." Interview (17 July 1971)… Continue

Added by Kevin DiVico on May 12, 2010 at 8:48am — No Comments

Ethiopia 2020 -Journal Entry

Journal Entry May, 2020



Ate a delicious dinner with Jean, a schoolteacher from Ethiopia. We met online, and instantly realized that we shared the goal of using technology in education. It didn't take long for us to get some projectors shipped, and start a webinar classroom in his home town, that was years ago, an I'm finally getting to meet him. The meal tonight was fantastic, its amazing how my diet has transformed, as I have transformed others diets as well.

Over the years of… Continue

Added by Gabriel Martin on May 12, 2010 at 7:05am — 1 Comment

Giant Kites as Free-Flying Wind Turbines - LEARN3

Saul Griffith dreams of giant kite turbines creating huge amounts of

clean, renewable energy.







Wind is the second largest renewable resource after solar. But the majority of wind power is in high altitudes, well above 300 feet - beyond the reach of today's wind turbines. We don't have a technology (yet) capable of tapping into this rich source of wind energy.



This idea was described by Miles L. Loyd in his paper "Crosswind Kite Power". He… Continue

Added by Jean Frankly on May 10, 2010 at 3:51pm — 1 Comment

The party of the POLAR BEAR in 2020

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, 2020.

Tonight we are celebrating that there is a tiny chance for polar bears…

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Added by Ternura Rojas on May 10, 2010 at 1:47pm — No Comments

More on Gardening "in the News"

Searching the news will provide you the projects that are catching the eye of the news. Publicity like this is expensive to buy, but free? It is INVALUABLE! How can you get your project featured in the news?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/04/27/iyw.argentina.kids.garden.cnn near
Buenos aires. It's Huerta nino, " child's Garden" a sustainable gardening project.

Added by John D. Boyden on May 8, 2010 at 8:43pm — No Comments

Cooking Locally

Here are the ingredients my favorite meal made from products available in Vancouver right now:

Lamb chops
rosemary, basil, thyme
morel mushrooms
baked potatoes
butter from local dairy

I think I could do the 100 mile diet. It would take a bit of work but I think it would be worthwhile.

Added by Madison DeNiro on May 7, 2010 at 1:40pm — 1 Comment

Learn8

I have decided not to pick one of the case studies that Alchemy has given us to choose from, but to remember my own story that I heard of a similar community eco-focused success story.



While at a conference my freshman year, I heard this story.



In Thailand, I believe, there was a small fishing village. It was a very, very poor village and the worse yet: it's source of income was running out. The village relied on selling seahorses in local markets to make money, as seahorses… Continue

Added by Ashley Bartlett on May 1, 2010 at 10:14pm — No Comments

Imagine a world where that weather didn't matter.

Imagine a world where that weather didn't matter. A world where you can grow tomato's, lettuces, and a wh*** host of other fruits and vegetables, even when its 30 below.

Welcome to Ted Marchildon world. We can be in doors so you can set

this like clock work. It high noon all day every day 24 7. In Teds

world plants aren't affected by drought, cold, or any other plait

affecting the farmer today.…

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Added by Oliver Kopec on April 28, 2010 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Masdar City, an example of things to come.

Masdar City


The World's first self-sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste city based in Abu Dhabi. The city is powered by it's use of solar plants, wind farms, hydrogen plants, geothermal power with plans of recycling 80% of it's water with waste water being recycled and used for crop irrigation. Biological… Continue

Added by Matthew Ceo on April 25, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

LEARN-1: Incentives and economic sustainability is key to sustainable social innovations

Economic Sustainability is key to a continous social innovations.

Without it, being dependant on fundings, continous presence of an NGO/INGO to making a difference to a society would be chronic at the level of "investment dilemma" -- the more you are investing your time and funds in that particular community, for particular issue, the more 'addicted' society is to the funds, and the more failure it becomes.…

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Added by Nanang Chalid on April 23, 2010 at 7:14am — No Comments

Indigenous Knowledge - Native Bees

It's 2073 and I am still teaching sustainable farming. In todays class I tell of a free local garden input that is already available for home use. The native bee.



Native bees are usually unnoticed by most people. They are the best pollinators around. Compared to honeybees, native pollinate 10 to 15 times more efficiently, both males and females pollinate, the are more hardy in their local environment. Making accommodations for them is also a lot easier and requires very…

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Added by Theodore Burt on April 22, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

Video Resources

I've posted several video resources folks might find useful for teaching about local food production here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jgerber123#g/c/01D96808ED530B0C

John Gerber

Added by John M. Gerber on April 20, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Drip Irrigation: Farming with Less Water - LEARN4

How can poor farmers grow their crops using less water and fertilizer?



Drip irrigation (also: trickle irrigation or micro-irrigation) saves water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either onto the soil surface or directly onto the root zone, through a network of values pipes, tubing and emitters.



I first read about drip irrigation in the book "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World". It… Continue

Added by Jean Frankly on April 20, 2010 at 1:23am — 2 Comments


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