First Nation to go 100% renewable
Malo ni! My name is Mikaele Maiava. I’m writing from the Pacific Island archipelago of Tokelau to ask you to join with us in action as we take on the fossil fuel...
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Southwest Florida Eagle
You will fall in love with these two bald eagles caring for their eggs, live on Eaglecam! Few birds are as fierce and beautiful as the bald eagle, a predator who is both...
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Polly Higgins – Lawyer for the Earth. Taking Ecocide to the ICC
Polly is on the course of making environmental destruction history – through law. While this idea may seem a hopeless dream to most, Polly’s proposition is already...
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Cycle Chalao! A Happy and Economic, Environmentally Sustainable Initiative
Cycle! It reminds me of childhood. When I just started learning to cycle. It was such a fun time. When I got to know about Cycle Chalao, which is India’s leading...
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Japan making its mark by reducing it – with Bicycles!
Why the heck there’s so much pollution in cities, such noise and heavy air compared to towns and villages, where the pollution count is much lower? And the air is as...
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Judge Deliberates on Whether to Save Earth’s Atmosphere
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 people can sue to...
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Phebe Meyers – Bird Whisperer & Rainforest Saviour
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 and inexperienced....
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Grandpa Oyster & the ‘Forests are Lovers of the Sea’ Campaign. Meet Shigeatsu Hatakeyama.
Grandpa Oyster is the mythical alias attached to Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, the nurturer of forests and the cleanser of oceans in Japan’s Kesennuma Bay. Faced with the...
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Robin Bryan, the diehard protector of East Shore Wilderness Area in Manitoba, Canada
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 his mind to stand up...
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Bag It: A Day Without Plastic
Try going a day without plastic. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he embarks on a global tour to unravel...
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Christina Wong carries out a fulfilling mission on Conservation & Urban Ecosystem
Conserving environment involves everything, like, rivers, forests, mountains, and wide-open spaces. Of course our cities and urban centers are also connected to the...
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Zander Srodes: Let’s Share the Beach with Sea Turtles
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 time and effort to a...
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Alafuro Sikoki: Design for Ecosystem Benefits
The water hyacinth is a beautiful plant, floating in water with beautiful purple and pink blooms. However, this plant can quickly take over, choking lakes and ponds,...
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Spiti Ecosphere
Spiti refers to the ‘Middle Land’, that is, the surreal mountain valley, lying between India and Tibet. Spiti is home to a homogeneous Buddhist community of 10000,...
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Human Ecology – Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development, by Gerry Marten
From 50 years experience in ecological research, Gerald Marten explains why we have environmental problems and what we can do about them. The explanation employs a...
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‘Green Yatra’ and 400+ volunteers keeping Mumbai beaches clean post Ganesh Chaturthi
Small efforts can make a big difference-we all can. If living a little simple, we make this world a better and beautiful place, is it not worth a try? GREEN YATRA, as...
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Raju: 1 Billion(!) Trees in a Day! Meet India’s Planting Guru.
An Indian civil servant, SM Raju, has come up with a novel way of providing employment to millions of poor in the eastern state of Bihar. According to a report by BBC...
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Gaukhar Yerezhepova – Clean Air for Kazakhstan
2011 is the United Nations International Year of Forests (find more online: Forests, 2011 at www.un.org). So, with a good part of the year already over, how much do...
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CAFI and the Nature Conservancy: Empowering Indigenous People
The Amazon Indigenous Training Center (CAFI, as it is locally known) is a groundbreaking TNC-sponsored initiative for indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon....
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The Million Tree Project: Taking Action To Protect the Environment in China
Not much happening in China as far as ecology goes? Be surprised! Discover the Shanghai crew of Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots program and see how they do BIG as...
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Test trial rules oil company CEO’s guilty of Ecocide!
We have witnessed a historic moment as the UK’s high court room experienced the first trial of ecocide taking on the Tar Sand Oil Extraction. An environmental...
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The 13 Grandmothers Council
“Nothing will change until we change” from “For the Next Seven Generations”, a documentary about the Thirteen Grandmothers Alliance This...
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Brandon Sutton: Campaigning for a Better Tomorrow
“The past 48 hours have been some of the most intense, emotional, rewarding hours of my life. I participated in an act of civil disobedience in front of the White...
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Sharon Smith. Building a Green, Healthy Movement!
How exactly can we acquire the knowledge that is needed for making our planet healthier and greener? Where to kick-start our personal campaign for a sustainable green...
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An Oasis In a Desert- Fighting Desertifiction through Reforestation and Sustainable Agriculture
In 2008, Jesús León Santos and the Center for Integral Farmer Development (CEDICAM) have revolutionized La Mixteca through reforestation and soil conservation ,...
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No Pesticides > Higher Yields & Income. Health.
3,500 Indian villages have already replaced toxic, expensive pesticides with a broth of local plants. Villages are returning to prosperity, heath and integrity. This...
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Captain Paul Watson- Skipper of Neptune’s Navy
Paul Joseph Watson A.K.A Captain Paul Watson is a man on a mission- to save the planet and its oceans. The youngest co-founder of Greenpeace, Paul has ever been a direct...
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John Liu. Large Scale Ecosystem Restoration; for Climate Stability and Abundance
For 15 years, John has been identifying ecological ‘concerns’ and documenting effective methods for large-scale ecosystem restoration. His personal method is...
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WWF – the World Wildlife Fund
In almost 5 decades, WWF (the World Wildlife Fund) has become one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. With almost 5...
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Restoring Mangroves, Abundance, Community Management (ETP)
Yadfon, a small development organization whose name means ‘raindrop’ in Thai, successfully empowered the communities of Leam Markham and Thung Dase to, not only...
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Flower Walls Beautify Cities, Climate and Quality of Life
Wall greening has been found to be one of the best ways for improving cities’ microclimate, building insulation, saving energy costs, and – making cities more...
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I am calculating carbon footprint of my city, are you?
An agent of change, a savior of earth and a representative of youth force, Ayan Sengupta is a British Council’s International Climate Champion for 2009 and the winner...
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