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90% of Asian school leave...

90% of Asian school leavers have impaired vision, African school leavers have best eye-sight.The solution; Spend time outdoors!

A new study has found that up to 90 per cent of school-leavers in Asia’s major cities are suffering...

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Abandon what has no futur...

Abandon what has no future

My friend Hans wrote these words following a workshop we were at last week: “We should want to abandon...

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Katya Pospelova: YL Star ...

Katya Pospelova: YL Star Volunteer of the Month

Salut to the Team! As all of you know this is a time when we once again pick one of you who did exceptional...

RSDR: Street Dog rescue. Helping our ...

Bulgaria has many street dogs who are often subjected to the most horrendous cruelty. They are kicked, beaten and shot...

RSDR: Street Dog rescue. Helping our furry friends
posted on: May 2012 | author: Janhvi Johorey

Kimmie Weeks (17). Liberating Child S...

“I saw the mission and ultimate goal that we had to achieve as greater than myself. I put it ahead of my own life...

Kimmie Weeks (17). Liberating Child Soldiers.
posted on: May 2012 | author: admin

Youth dreamers true story- ‘YUWA’

Nobody really knew back in 2005 when few committed Nepalese youths gathered in a tea shop and gave a shape to YUWA...

Youth dreamers true story- ‘YUWA’
posted on: May 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Sulak Sivaraksa and his principals an...

Sulak Sivaraksa is a writer-activist-economist-philosopher from Thailand who has been implementing  Buddhist...

Sulak Sivaraksa and his principals and vision on LIFE, DEMOCRACY and PEACE
posted on: May 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim
Judge Deliberates on Whether to Save Earth’s Atmosphere

Judge Deliberates on Whether to Save Earth...

posted on: May 2012 | author: Janhvi Johorey

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins heard the arguments on Friday in Washington, D.C., and is deliberating now on the question of whether young...

Planetary Restoration News from John Liu

Planetary Restoration News from John Liu

posted on: May 2012 | author: admin

Dear friends, With John Liu in Andrews Forest in Oregon, collecting new film footage, observing nature at its most beautiful and functional, it ...

Phebe Meyers – Bird Whisperer & Rainforest Saviour

Phebe Meyers – Bird Whisperer & Ra...

posted on: May 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

How about protecting some rainforest by raising $165,000 through schools? Phebe has done it. The wise world out there thinks young people are naive...

The Ruins of Detroit

The Ruins of Detroit

posted on: May 2012 | author: Janhvi Johorey

The Symbol of the End of the Industrial Era: Motor City Detroit. When the old, unsustainable car industry broke down, an entire city collapsed,...

Actioneers. In touch with the Underprivileged in Bangladesh

Actioneers. In touch with the Underprivileged...

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most prominent leaders of all time and a social activist once said, ‘Everyone can be great because anyone...

Grandpa Oyster & the ‘Forests are Lovers of the Sea’ Campaign. Meet Shigeatsu Hatakayama.

Grandpa Oyster & the ‘Forests are Lovers...

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Grandpa Oyster is the mythical alias attached to Shigeatsu Hatakayama, the nurturer of forests and the cleanser of oceans in Japan’s Kesennuma Bay....

Samantha: The coolest Toy Maker turned Social Entrepreneur

Samantha: The coolest Toy Maker turned Social...

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Today YL volunteer Peach brings an in-depth story of a non-profit fair trade organization in Bangladesh whose mission is to create fairly paid, good...

EARTHLINGS cries to be seen (by you).

EARTHLINGS cries to be seen (by you).

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

I have some questions for you: Where do our food, clothes, our accessories come from? How everything in nature is depending on each other? How do you...

Samar Dudin runs a School for Enlightenment and Creativity taking the youth of Arabia from streets to theaters

Samar Dudin runs a School for Enlightenment a...

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Luckily, the Arab YOUTH got their own Samar Dudin on their side. She understands the potential of the youth. She harnesses all they have to offer...

350.Org leading hard-hitting climate activism. Worldwide!

350.Org leading hard-hitting climate activism...

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

How often do we think of our planet and all the elements which help it to function; the sea, rivers, eco systems, weather patterns? When we wake up...

iWatch: Transforming India by empowerment of the people

iWatch: Transforming India by empowerment of ...

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by...

Robin Bryan, the diehard protector of East Shore Wilderness Area in Manitoba, Canada

Robin Bryan, the diehard protector of East Sh...

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

When Robin realized that so much of the wildlife, parks and public land in Manitoba were endangered due to unsound industrial practices, he made up...

Justice Restored: Bannerman and Trench Sentenced for Ecocide

Justice Restored: Bannerman and Trench Senten...

posted on: Apr 2012 | author: Janhvi Johorey

On Saturday two fictional CEOs, Mr Bannerman and Mr Tench were sentenced for committing Ecocide. The two separate counts of Ecocide committed by the...

Jessie-Ruth Corkins: Vermont’s sustainable energy initiator

Jessie-Ruth Corkins: Vermont’s sustainable en...

posted on: Mar 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

High school science fairs are usually limited to soda volcanos, the life cycle of a butterfly and the tending of plants through different...

Christina Wong carries out a fulfilling mission on Conservation & Urban Ecosystem

Christina Wong carries out a fulfilling missi...

posted on: Mar 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Conserving environment involves everything, like, rivers, forests, mountains, and wide-open spaces.  Of course our cities and urban centers are also...

Zander Srodes: An Award-Winning Environmentalist Conserving Sea-Turtles

Zander Srodes: An Award-Winning Environmental...

posted on: Mar 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

When he was merely eleven years of age, Zander Srodes, a native of Placida, Florida, knew what he wanted to do with his life and set about giving...

South Africa – Working for Water

South Africa – Working for Water

posted on: Mar 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Ayliff Nasayi Madlokazi was 18 years old when he was alongside the person who planted the first wattle tree in South Africa in 1928. What he didn’t...

Baan Unrak – The awesomeness of the ‘Home of Joy’

Baan Unrak – The awesomeness of the ‘Ho...

posted on: Mar 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Standing proudly above the Thai village of Sangkhlaburi, amongst the jagged peaks and vivid, copper roads of clay, is the Baan Unrak Children’s...

Faisal and Padma to improve lives of Bangladeshi farmers

Faisal and Padma to improve lives of Banglade...

posted on: Feb 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

Faisal Islam with his years of experience in volunteering with social development organizations is now all up for making a staggeringly positive...

How Plastic Waste Can Become a  Mountain of Treasure

How Plastic Waste Can Become a Mountain of T...

posted on: Feb 2012 | author: Janhvi Johorey

Plastic waste is scattered all over at the beach has become an issue everywhere. A project to transform these into the mountains of treasure...

Wake Up Pune – Proud to be HIV POSITIVE!

Wake Up Pune – Proud to be HIV POSITIVE!

posted on: Feb 2012 | author: Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma

How would you react to the person who has just passed across you wearing a black T-shirt with “HIV POSITIVE” written in bold white letters??? Due...

Billy Parish – Fighting Climate Change

Billy Parish – Fighting Climate Change

posted on: Feb 2012 | author: Nusrat Azim

It’s 2012. Countless people have predicted the doomsday, the day when the world will get submerged in the water, leaving no one alive. How much of...

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