Excellent Development - improving food production in rural Kenya
Excellent Development supports community groups in semi-arid rural Kenya to improve their enviroment sustainably through soil and water conservation, improving food and water supply, health and incomes. The key activities are terracing land, building sand dams and planting trees. These three work together to significantly improve conservation of soil and water in this delicate environment.
Excellent Development field staff visit farmers on their farms to provide support to increase food production. After terracing land and maximising the use of available water, techniques such as intercropping, zero grazing, using cover crops and drought resistant crops can dramatically increase yields.
“When Excellent Development Kenya started working with us, Field Officer Muthama trained us on terracing and I took the initiative. He laid the standard terraces for me and I dug and there is a big change. My harvest increased from 3 bags of 90kgs to 8 bags of 90kg. I am encouraged and I will dig the whole farm. Terraces conserve water. My orange trees don’t dry anymore and I am happy.”
Mr Mutunga Ngitu, Kilili Catchment
Duration : 0:5:56
Shiny water in Urban Terror
New water look and an example of a back flip animation.
Duration : 0:1:38
Philippines Environment Monitor: Water Quality
Poor water quality has large economic and quality of life costs, in terms of health impacts and foregone revenues. According to the Philippine government’s monitoring data, just over 36 percent of the country’s river systems are classified as sources of public water supply and that up to 58 percent of groundwater sampled is contaminated with coliform and needs treatment. Approximately 31 percent of illnesses monitored for a five-year period were also caused by water-borne sources, and many areas are experiencing a shortage of water supply, during the dry season.
Link to the report:
http://go.worldbank.org/H32MXEOV40
Duration : 0:21:13
Telecom Report - The Green Show Part 1
Green business has been around for generations, but it’s just now hitting the tipping point. A call from the Worldwide Fund for Nature urges telecoms businesses to take the lead in this trend.
Telecom Report is an online magazine that looks at trends and issues in the telecom business. Brought to you by Ericsson. Ericsson is shaping the future of mobile and broadband internet communications through its continuous technology leadership.
Providing innovative solutions in more than 140 countries, Ericsson is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world.
Read more at http://www.telecomreport.com
Duration : 0:2:59
water pollution is really bad (geo)
a video i made on water pollution for my geography class
Duration : 0:2:4
Sustaining Sparty: Environmental Sustainability at UNCG
Sustaining Sparty is a short documentary about sustainability at UNCG, Greensboro, NC. It was created for a class on Sustainability taught at Mary Foust Hall.
Created by:
Nick Stubblefield (orig. music/editing)
Wyatt Rollins
Kayla Newman
Duration : 0:10:0
Rachel Barge - speech at 2007 Brower Youth Awards
Rachel was an avid contributor to various environmental initiatives at the University of California, Berkeley beginning in her freshman year. She realized that one underlying factor preventing her campus from becoming more sustainable was a lack of funding for necessary projects. To overcome this challenge, Rachel co-created The Green Initiative Fund, a student fee referendum passed by the students at Berkeley. The Green Initiative Fund successfully secures more than $2 million over ten years - $200,000 annually - for sustainability projects on campus, including clean energy, sustainable transportation, improved energy efficiency, water conservation, “green” internships, and improved recycling and composting programs. The Green Initiative Fund essentially tripled the amount of sustainability funding available at UC Berkeley and raised awareness about sustainability issues at the University. Rachel also founded The sustainability Team (Steam), a student internship program now consisting of 60 members dedicated to creating, implementing and leading a variety of projects aimed at establishing sustainable practices. The Sustainability Team implemented the first recycling program in student union buildings and founded the first organic, local, student-run cooperative produce stand on campus.
Duration : 0:4:16
Groundwater and Sustainable Use
Groundwater is of paramount importance to our planet and the people upon it. Management and use of groundwater should be based on thorough knowledge. An IGRAC initiative.
Duration : 0:5:20
Back To The Future-The Water Cycle! Fresh Water Conservation
http://water.totev.com/
http://www.watev.com/
Water goes into a cycle and what we do today with it will come back to us!
In the past century water policies relied on the construction of massive dams and pipelines. While investment in these facilities can increase the freshwater supply and provide water for billions of people the construction of dams have serious social, economical, and ecological costs. Some implications of the use of dams are modification of the water quality, increased waterborne parasitic diseases, and reduction of fish yields downstream. Another issue is that people need to be replaced, to build new dams. Also dams are build where animal used to live and trees used to thrive. Dams could fail which may result in flooding and destruction of property and people. “More than half of the world’s large rivers are fragmented and regulated by dams, including all the largest and the most biologically diverse rivers,” according to new research from the University of Umea in Sweden and the Nature Conservancy in the United States. Many water problems occur with the development of dams, and present approaches may not be sufficient in the future.
Read more and watch more at:
http://water.totev.com/
Duration : 0:1:24
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