Poor Girl Cleaning Car for Livelihood. It is a national shame. Govt has failed miserably in fulfilling fundamental right and providing free education to ALL children of age 6 to 14, as guranteed under the Right to Education Act,fulifil and employing them gainfully for development of India.
Duration : 0:0:7
http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/shidhulai Shidhulai won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha was founded in 1998 to help poor, marginalised communities living in the remote Chalanbeel region of Bangladesh to develop sustainable livelihoods. Shidhulai has achieved this by building up a fleet of flat-bottomed boats, all made with locally available materials, that make their way through the shallow rivers and canals of the Chalanbeel to bring a range of educational services and renewable energy supplies to water-side families. The boats use solar PV modules to generate all the electricity they need to provide daily classes in primary education for children, libraries, training in sustainable agriculture, health advice, mobile phone and internet access and battery-charging facilities. Shidhulai has also provided villagers with 13,500 solar-home-systems, 2,500 lanterns and 15,000 bicycle pumps that deliver between 60 and 100 litres of water per minute - enough to irrigate half a hectare of land during the dry season. By putting into practice the agricultural techniques they have learnt on the boats and using the renewable energy devices, farmers have been able to significantly increase their income and reduce the use of synthetic pesticides, with about one third of farmers eliminating their use altogether.
Duration : 0:5:8
Most people in the world live in rural areas. Many of these people make less than $1 each day. This short video tells the story of one program that is helping rural people find a sustainable income and better care for their families.
Duration : 0:1:20
The video is part of the Global Nature Fund’s project to restore mangrove forests and livelihoods in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami of 2004.
The project aims at the re-establishment of livelihoods of affected communities, restoration of Tsunami affected areas and long-term environmental education. The main target groups are about 1,000 families from poor communities in the lake areas of Bolgoda, Maduganga and Madampe in Sri Lanka. A central goal is to improve the peoples self-reliance, mitigate poverty effects, increase long-term access of people to sustainable use of natural resources and protect the local communities against potential disasters by the implementation of precautionary measures.
Among the main activities are the installation of mangrove nurseries, the re-plantation of damaged mangrove forests and the establishment and operation of regional education centres. The latter serves to educate and inform the local people of negative impacts from logging in forested areas and coral reef harvesting in order to reduce or avoid them as far as possible. The project results will be transferred to the Tsunami affected Pulicat region in India.
Duration : 0:10:0
Most people in the world live in rural areas. Many of these people make less than $1 each day. This short video tells the story of one program that is helping such rural people find a sustainable income and better care for their families.
Duration : 0:5:17
Excerpts from 45-min. documentary produced in the framework of the Project “Post Tsunami Restoration of Mangroves, Education and Reestablishment of Livelihoods in Sri Lanka” funded by the EU-Comission in the frame of the Asia Pro Ec II B Post Tsunami Programme.
A project of Global Nature Fund
in collaboration with Nagenahiru Foundation and EMACE Foundation of Sri Lanka
Visit www.globalnature.org for information about Global Nature Fund projects and the International Living Lakes Network.
Duration : 0:10:0
Google Tech Talks
August 20, 2008
ABSTRACT
This presentation is drawn from Hunter’s recent lead chapter in the U.S. Presidential Climate Action Project’s report to the President-elect. It describes the business case for moving aggressively to solve such challenges as global warming, peak oil, the vulnerability of our energy infrastructure and others. Hunter discusses how climate protection, energy efficiency, renewable energy and other sustainable approaches will give us a stronger economy, and a higher quality of life. Hunter discusses how to unleash the new energy economy as the antidote to life in a carbon constrained world. The global climate crisis threatens many aspects of life on earth, including access to water. Energy is a relatively easy challenge to solve. But providing access to water, both at home and in water-short regions around the globe will not be trivial. Fortunately, in water, as in energy, there are solutions that cost less, work better and can deliver a higher quality of life. Hunter will describe how communities and companies are implementing these and many other strategies to cut their costs and drive their innovation.
Speaker: Hunter Lovins
L. Hunter Lovins is President and founder of the Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In partnership with leading thinkers and implementers, NCS creates innovative, practical tools and strategies to enable companies, communities and countries to become more sustainable.
Trained as a sociologist and lawyer (JD), Hunter co-founded the California Conservation Project (Tree People), and Rocky Mountain Institute, which she led for 20 years. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. She has consulted with large and small companies including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, Clif Bar and Wal-Mart. Governmental clients include the Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy and other agencies, numerous cities, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and the U.S. She also serves an advisor to the Energy Minister of the Government of Afghanistan.
Recipient of such honors as the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award and Leadership in Business, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet. She has co-authored nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book, Natural Capitalism and 2006 Climate Protection Manual for Cities. She has served on the boards of governments, non and for profit companies.
Hunter’s areas of expertise include Natural Capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, and fire rescue and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She is currently a founding Professor of Business at Presidio School of Management, one of the first accredited programs offering an MBA in Sustainable Management.
Duration : 1:2:28
EPi 6-6 The Mesesso Foundation
This week on Profiles in Caring, we return to Ethiopia to Profile the Mesesso Foundation. Mesesso is the Ethiopian word for the center post or main support in a house. And this group views the family as the Mesesso of a childs life. Their Vision is to build and strengthen the Mesesso in the lives of vulnerable children in Ethiopia through their education and improved economic livelihood for their families. And they view the needs of the family through the needs of a child.
http://www.mesesso.org
Duration : 0:8:2
This flim shows how MARG is igniting Smiles in the Hills of North Bengal in the area of Kalimpong, Kurseong and Darjeeling
Duration : 0:4:59
EPi 6-6 The Mesesso Foundation
This week on Profiles in Caring, we return to Ethiopia to Profile the Mesesso Foundation. Mesesso is the Ethiopian word for the center post or main support in a house. And this group views the family as the Mesesso of a childs life. Their Vision is to build and strengthen the Mesesso in the lives of vulnerable children in Ethiopia through their education and improved economic livelihood for their families. And they view the needs of the family through the needs of a child.
http://www.mesesso.org
Duration : 0:7:37