Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by ChangeMaker
Maria is a ChangeMaker student (Stage 2) who lives in Kenya. She is engaged with several environmental projects. To work with “own projects” is the main activity for all Stage 2 students. One of the projects that she is working with is “Save Lake Naivasha”. She had been in the area around the lake and [...]
Filed under: Children, Climate Change, Education, Energy, Environment, Grassroots, Health, Human Rights, Hunger, MDGs, Sanitation, Uncategorized, Water, Women | No Comments »
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
A report assembled by the Rights and Resources Initiative and conservation partners argues the failure to reach a concrete initiative at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen demonstrates the West does not have an adequate plan to implement or enforce Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, its program for curbing deforestation.
Though REDD has [...]
Filed under: Climate Change, Energy, Environment | No Comments »
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
To the students of “Environment and Sustainable Development” the ChangeMakers. Your Traineeweeks starts now. Read more about it in Opit!
Filed under: Children, Climate Change, Education, Energy, Environment, Grassroots, Health, Human Rights, Hunger, MDGs, Sanitation, Water, Women | No Comments »
Posted on August 31st, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Experts predict solar panel costs, which have fallen 40% since last year, will fall further.
The price of producing solar panels has plunged thanks primarily to an increase in polysilicon production in China and a slowdown in demand, primarily in Spain — where generous subsidies for solar-panel development have been cut in response to the global [...]
Filed under: Energy, Environment | No Comments »
Posted on August 13th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
Irrigating vegetable plants by sewage water is causing various diseases in Chiniot (It is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan).
Vegetable sold in the city markets are being irrigated by sewerage water which is contaminated by the wastes of hospitals, laboratories and industries and the domestic wastes combined at the main pumping station.
The [...]
Filed under: Energy, Environment, Water | No Comments »
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by ChangeMaker
One billion people face food insecurity and hunger this year because of high prices and the continuing global economic crisis, Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, said today. Diouf said investments of $30 billion a year in agricultural production is needed to halt the spread of hunger.
The number of [...]
Filed under: Energy, Environment, Hunger | No Comments »
Posted on March 19th, 2009 by ChangeMaker
