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Deutsche Welle: Global Ideas
Melting ice caps, catastrophic hurricanes, floods and drought plunging entire regions into a water crisis. These are the drastic images often associated with climate change. But what's actually being done on the ground to halt global warming? What kind of projects are helping to reduce emissions, inform people and spurring them to change their lifestyles?
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Protecting Mexico's rich forests | short version
The Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range is one of Mexico’s most precious natural treasures, boasting lush forests with rich biodiversity. It also s...
Protecting Mexico's rich forests
The Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range is one of Mexico’s most precious natural treasures, boasting lush forests with rich biodiversity. It also s...
A new start for old mills in Nepal | short version
Is there a way to update traditional and now obsolete machines to make them greener and more efficient? That’s the focus of next week’s Global Ide...
A new start for old mills in Nepal
Is there a way to update traditional and now obsolete machines to make them greener and more efficient? That’s the focus of next week’s Global Ide...
Solar stadiums in Brazil
Brazil is a solar energy pioneer in Latin America. The country’s biggest photovoltaic facility is a unique one: it generates 600 MWh, but unlike oth...
Solar stadiums in Brazil
Brazil is a solar energy pioneer in Latin America. The country’s biggest photovoltaic facility is a unique one: it generates 600 MWh, but unlike oth...
Cooking without firewood in Madagascar | short version
Madagascar, once a lush, green island in the Indian Ocean, has seen vast swathes of valuable forestland disappear in recent years. The destruction ste...
Cooking without firewood in Madagascar
Madagascar, once a lush, green island in the Indian Ocean, has seen vast swathes of valuable forestland disappear in recent years. The destruction ste...
How to Tighten Up Your Home | Infofilm
Global Ideas seeks answers to pressing, complex questions on climate change. Towards that end, we've begun a series of information films. In this epis...
Eco-friendly palm oil in Colombia | short version
Palm oil is a valuable commodity. It’s cheaper than other plant-based oils, and the palm fruit is both productive and versatile. Palm oil can be fou...
Eco-friendly palm oil in Colombia
Palm oil is a valuable commodity. It’s cheaper than other plant-based oils, and the palm fruit is both productive and versatile. Palm oil can be fou...
Electricity from mustard plant harvests
Harvest residue from mustard plants were earlier simply burned in India. Now, a project in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan is using the pla...
Electricity from mustard plant harvests
Harvest residue from mustard plants were earlier simply burned in India. Now, a project in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan is using the pla...
Electricity from mustard plant harvests
Harvest residue from mustard plants were earlier simply burned in India. Now, a project in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan is using the pla...
Cleaning up Lake Managua
For decades, household sewage and industrial effluents generated by residents and farmers in northern Nicaragua ended up unfiltered in Lake Managua, o...
Cleaning up Lake Managua | Short Version
For decades, household sewage and industrial effluents generated by residents and farmers in northern Nicaragua ended up unfiltered in Lake Managua, o...
Women in Bangladesh fight climate change | Short Version
Soils with high salt levels are incapable of producing good harvests. Droughts or floods often worsen the situation. Women in southeastern Bangladesh ...
Women in Bangladesh fight climate change
Soils with high salt levels are incapable of producing good harvests. Droughts or floods often worsen the situation. Women in southeastern Bangladesh ...
Thai firms on low-carbon path | Short Version
The demand for energy in developing countries is skyrocketing, especially in export-dominated economies. But as consumption climbs, so, too, do energy...
Coconut briquettes in Cambodia | Short Version
The humble coconut has the power to save Cambodia’s forests. Because wood is heavily used for energy production, the country’s virgin forestland i...
Coconut briquettes in Cambodia
The humble coconut has the power to save Cambodia’s forests. Because wood is heavily used for energy production, the country’s virgin forestland i...
What is your personal CO2 balance? | Global Ideas
Global Ideas seeks to break down pressing, complex issues about climate change. We've begun a series of information films to help answer climate quest...
Water Strategy for Bolivia | short version
Precipitation in Bolivia has become unpredictable - rainfall is heavier but shorter than it once was. That leads to periods of both flooding and droug...
Water Strategy for Bolivia
Precipitation in Bolivia has become unpredictable - rainfall is heavier but shorter than it once was. That leads to periods of both flooding and droug...
Thai industries on low-carbon path
Energy use is rising rapidly in emerging economies, especially those with strong export industries. The result is growing carbon emissions and soaring...
Pedal power to recharge light | Short Version
Rural Rwandan households usually rely on dangerous and unhealthy kerosene lamps for illumination. Now one project has come up with an innovative, clea...
Pedal power to recharge light
Rural Rwandan households usually rely on dangerous and unhealthy kerosene lamps for illumination. Now one project has come up with an innovative, clea...
Chile - children's project in the Andes | Short Version
Millions of Facebook users plant crops and tend to their own farm in the popular online game Farmville. Children in a Chilean valley are doing the sam...
Chile - children's project in the Andes
Millions of Facebook users plant crops and tend to their own farm in the popular online game Farmville. Children in a Chilean valley are doing the sam...
Composting for a cause in Capetown | Short Version
For years, green waste such as shrubs, cuttings and plant remains from parks, fields and football stadiums have ended up on massive trash heaps in Sou...
Composting for a cause in Capetown
For years, green waste such as shrubs, cuttings and plant remains from parks, fields and football stadiums have ended up on massive trash heaps in Sou...
Cashing in on camel milk in Kenya | Short Version
The cow is the most important farm animal in parts of Africa. But climate change is threatening the existence of the animal. Recurring droughts and ex...
Hydropower in Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, hydropower could be the key to ensuring a clean and stable energy supply in the future. Water weaves throughout the small island, emptyi...
Hydropower in Sri Lanka | short version
In Sri Lanka, hydropower could be the key to ensuring a clean and stable energy supply in the future. Water weaves throughout the small island, emptyi...
Kenya's dairy industry switches from cows to camels
The cow is the most important farm animal in parts of Africa. But climate change is threatening the existence of the animal. Recurring droughts and ex...
Volcanic power in El Salvador | Short Version
El Salvador is well-known for its majestic, powerful volcanoes. The hot, steaming lava that bubbles just under the earth’s surface serves the countr...
Volcanic power in El Salvador
El Salvador is well-known for its majestic, powerful volcanoes. The hot, steaming lava that bubbles just under the earth’s surface serves the countr...
Solar power shops in the Philippines | Short Version
On the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, many villages go dark at night. There is no electrical grid, and generators are too expensive. Solar lamp...
Solar power shops in the Philippines
On the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, many villages go dark at night. There is no electrical grid, and generators are too expensive. Solar lamp...
Solar-powered irrigation in Nicaragua | short version
Climate change has made rainfall in Nicaragua increasingly erratic and the long periods of drought have been spelling trouble for farmers. They're for...
Solar-powered irrigation in Nicaragua
Rainfall is increasingly erratic in Nicaragua, and the long periods of drought are spelling trouble for famers. They're forced to depend on expensive ...
What economic value do forests have? | a Global Ideas informa...
GLOBAL Ideas seeks to break down complex issues regarding climate change. That’s why we've begun a series of information films to answer some basic ...
Combating climate change in Laos
The Nam Phui national protected area in Laos near the border with Thailand plays an important role in maintaining the world's climate balance. But the...
Combating climate change in Laos
The Nam Phui national protected area in Laos near the border with Thailand plays an important role in maintaining the world's climate balance. But the...
Does global warming really exist? | GLOBAL IDEAS
Global Ideas is on to find the basic answers to climate issues. In our series of information films, we explain these complicated issues in a very simp...
Gorilla habitat in Rwanda
Rwanda's verdant Virunga forests are home to rare mountain gorillas. Their habitat however is critically endangered. New projects seek to protect the ...
Lima's looming water crisis
It hardly ever rains in the Peruvian capital of Lima, which is surrounded by desert. With less than one centimeter of rainfall per year, the city's po...
Taking the climate train in South Africa
Environmental protection is a largely neglected issue in South Africa and there is little public understanding of what individuals can do to help. Few...
Greening Russia's 2014 Winter Olympics
In the city of Sochi in Russia, preparations are well underway for the Winter Olympics in 2014. But with several new venues and extensions to the exis...
Saving Kenya's forests
The Kasigau Corridor located between Kenya’s Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks functions as a critical wildlife corridor between the two par...
Saving Kenya's forests
The Kasigau Corridor located between Kenya’s Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks functions as a critical wildlife corridor between the two par...
Protecting Guatemala's forests
Guatemala's third-largest national park "Sierra del Lacandon," located in the country's north, could lose over half its rainforest cover in 25 years. ...
Wind energy in Turkey
Turkey’s economy is growing fast. The need for energy is also on the rise, and officials are worried the supply won’t meet the demand. That’s wh...
Hydropower in Bosnia
Energy generated from hydropower has been Bosnia’s biggest export for decades. During the Bosnian war, many important power plants and energy grids ...
Smart energy ideas in Germany
It may be a small, sleepy farming community in southern Germany, but Wildpoldsried is setting an important example for the rest of Germany and the wor...
Eco-friendly transport in China
China is becoming ever wealthier – especially the country’s middle class. And as prosperity grows, so does the number of cars on the streets. But ...
Energy from used cooking oil in Austria
Have you ever wondered what happens to all that used cooking fat in restaurants and kitchens? In Austria, it’s used to produce clean energy. The oil...
GLOBAL IDEAS: Jeremy Rifkin, Foundation on Economic Trends
Jeremy Rifkin is the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, he has written seventeen books on the impact of scientific and technological chan...
Denmark's carbon-neutral island
The Danish island of Samsö has been carbon-neutral for years, generating more renewable energy than its residents need. The farmers here have investe...
London's Green Olympics
The countdown is on – in less than a year, London is to host the Olympic Games. The organizers have promised to make it the "greenest games" yet. Th...
Electric rickshaws in the Netherlands
Three wheels, an axis and a two-stroke engine – that’s the classic motorized rickshaw seen on the roads of India, Thailand and other countries in ...
Tidal power in Northern Ireland
Waves and tides contain enough energy to meet the electricity needs of all of mankind. Two thirds of the earth’s surface is covered by water and sci...
Food security in Ethiopia
Extreme drought and famine in East Africa have affected over 12 million people who are now in need of humanitarian aid. The reasons for the catastroph...
Web Special: Helicopter approach to Monte Rosa Hut
For his shoot on location at Monte Rosa Hut in the Swiss Alps our reporter Sascha Quaiser took a short cut and ascended to the mountain shelter via he...
Eco tourism in Switzerland
Global warming has already made an impact on tourism in the Swiss Alps. Several hiking trails have had to be diverted because existing paths have simp...
Partying with a green conscience
Europe’s largest indie and electronic music festival emits as much carbon dioxide over one single weekend as a small town. That’s now set to chang...
Wind energy in Vietnam
Vietnam's thirst for energy is growing, and being quenched with power stations powered by fossil fuels. Renewables have yet to be tapped, even though ...
GLOBAL IDEAS Statements: Izabella Teixeira, Brazilian environ...
New data show that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is on the rise again. What is the Brazilian government doing to halt destruction? ...
Water security in northern India
In the Indian state of Sikkim, some 80 percent of farmers get their water from springs rather thanrivers. But a lack of rainfall and deforestation mea...
GLOBAL IDEAS interview with C. B. Bhattacharya at the SBRT, B...
Today we had the opportunity to talk to C. B. Bhattacharya, E.ON Chair Professor in Corporate Responsibility, at the ESMT European School of Managemen...
GLOBAL IDEAS: Robin Chase, ITF
Robin Chase is the founder & CEO of Buzzcar, an peer to peer carsharing company. She is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing...
GLOBAL IDEAS: Jack Short, ITF
Jack Short is the Secretary General of the International Transport Forum. He is also the Director of the Joint OECD/ITF Transport Research Centre. In ...
Eco loans in Serbia
Serbia's energy infrastructure is in desperate need of an overhaul. Though demand for energy is soaring, much of it is inefficiently delivered to the ...
Stemming the flood in Bangladesh
Life in Bangladesh is determined by the two largest rivers in South Asia, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. To local populations, these two waterways ar...
Gita Wirjawan, Head of Indonesia's Investment Board
Gita Wirjawan heads up the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board. He talked to GLOBAL IDEAS about the impact of climate change on his country and ho...
Gita Wirjawan, Head of Indonesia's Investment Board
Gita Wirjawan heads up the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board. He talked to GLOBAL IDEAS about the impact of climate change on his country and ho...
Russia's melting permafrost
For generations, Russia’s nomadic Nenets have been hunting and herding reindeer in western Siberia. But the region is severely affected by climate c...
Renewables on the Cape Verde Islands
The Cape Verde Islands get plenty of sunshine and strong winds all year long. The island nation in the Atlantic Ocean already draws a fourth of its en...
Dry forest protection in Zambia
The region of West Lunga in western Zambia is home to the vast Miombo dry woodlands. So far, the forest has remained largely free of human interventio...
Eco-industrial parks in India
Many industrial firms in the Indian subcontinent are housed in large industrial parks where clean energy and efficient use of resources have so far no...
A thousand solar roofs for Brazil
Solar power is still rarely used in Brazil, despite ideal weather conditions as well as rising gas and electricity costs. But that?s set to change. In...
Energy-efficient vineyards in Chile
In the past, Chile?s winegrowers wasted vast amounts of energy. But now six vineyards are pioneering energy-efficiency in the country and have joined ...
Volunteers aim to protect threatened sea turtles
Sea turtles around the world are at risk from commercial fishing and the growing pollution of oceans. Each year, thousands of the marine creatures die...
Costa Rica's rich natural wealth
Costa Rica has a wealth of stunning landscapes – from dry woods, rainforests to mangrove belts on the coastline. The tiny Latin American country is ...
Herbert Samuel, founder of "welectricity.com"
Welectricity is one of the top 10 ideas that hat been put forward in the General Electric ECOmagination global contest. It is a web based, social netw...
Saving Russia's boreal forests
The Komi Republic in Russia is home to a wealth of biological diversity including some of the world’s last boreal forests. They play a significant r...
Insuring harvests in Ghana
Recent years have seen West Africa plagued by extended dry seasons that spell financial ruin for many small farmers. In Ghana, standard insurance agai...
Renewable energy in the Caribbean
The Caribbean islands are still almost entirely dependent on oil for their electricity needs. Renewable energy plays a negligible role in the region...
Climate champions in Uganda
Uganda is one of the most fertile countries in Africa. So why are harvests getting worse every year? Partly, because dry seasons are lasting longer. F...
Winds of change in Egypt
Not only is Egypt witnessing political change - it's also improving its environmental track record. The Zafarana Wind Park is the largest of its kind ...
Turkey turns waste into electricity
In Turkey, household rubbish is usually deposited in large trash dumps and left to decay for years. But the rotting of organic waste, in particular, r...
Water power in Taiwan
Taiwan is known as a hi-tech country. But the country still relies largely on polluting coal-fired power plants for generating electricity. But things...
Green energy in Namibia
Africa boasts an abundance of natural resources that can be used to produce alternative low-carbon energies. It’s estimated that the continent’s e...
GLOBAL IDEAS: Best Practice models to fight climate change
Melting ice caps, catastrophic hurricanes, floods and drought plunging entire regions into a water crisis. These are the drastic images often associat...
Sisters doing it for themselves in Malawi
Over 90 percent of Malawi's rural population cook over an open fire. But traditional wood burning stoves consume vast amounts of firewood and expose t...
What makes rice a climate killer
For more than 3 billion people around the world - 50 percent of the global population - rice is a staple of the daily diet. But not only are rice harv...
Micro-hydropower plants in Peru
Peru is among the countries hardest hit by climate change. The population is grappling with the fall-out from natural disasters, water shortages and a...
Building efficiently in Ukraine
Most houses in Ukraine tend to waste huge amounts of energy, with windows that don’t shut properly and radiators that can’t be regulated. But one ...
Recycling in Bali
The scenic Indonesian island of Bali has a serious trash problem: It lacks any organized waste disposal system. Vast landfills are not only an increas...
Andrea Arzaba and Leela Raina
Meet Leela Raina from India and Andrea Arzaba from Mexico. The two young climate activists attended the COP16 climate conference in Cancun, Mexico, in...
Eco-friendly transport in Colombia
Medellin, the second-largest city in Colombia, poses a unique challenge to urban planners. Many residential neighborhoods line the steep slopes of the...
Spending a day with the UN Volunteers in Cambodia
GLOBAL IDEAS met the United Nations Volunteers of Cambodia celebrating the 10th anniversary of the International Year of Vonteers (IYV+10). The event ...
Wind energy in Vietnam
Vietnam's thirst for energy is growing, and being quenched with power stations powered by fossil fuels. Renewables have yet to be tapped, even though ...
Irrigation projects in Ethiopia
Small farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are witnessing both drought and flooding increasingly often, and their harvests are suffering. In Ethiopia, some 8...
Renewable energy in Cambodia
Four out of five Cambodians lack access to the national electricity grid which doesn't extend into remote parts of the country. The capital Phnom Penh...
Sushma Joshi, Nepal
Sushma Joshi is a Nepali writer and filmmaker based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her book "End of the World" was long-listed for the Frank O' Connor Internat...
Dr. Anil Khurana, Director PRTM Management Consultants
Dr. Anil Khurana is a director of the PRTM Management Consultants, situated in Dubai. GLOBAL IDEAS (www.ideasforacoolerworld.org) did an interview wit...
Doug Smith, Managing Director of Village Green Global
Doug Smith is the founder and Managing Director of Village Green Global, a company that provides other companies with environmental solutions. GLOBAL...
Eva Oberender, reeep
Eva Oberender is the regional director for southeast asia & pacific @ reeep, the renewable energy & energy efficiency partnership. GLOBAL IDEAS (www.i...
Samuel Tumiwa, Asian Development Bank
Samuel Tumiwa is a Principal Planning and Coordination Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He's working at the Regional and Sustainable De...
Brazil switches to cleaner refrigerators
In the favelas of Brazil, old fridges are being traded in for new ones. At a state-of-the-art recycling facility, the old appliances are disposed of w...
The Humboldt scholar from Mexico
International cooperations play a key role in the spread of climate protection awareness. Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, for example, aw...
Eco-Tourism in Thailand
The island of Kho Khao in Thailand was devastated by the 2004 tsunami. Recent years have seen developers rebuild hotels, but unlike in many of Thailan...
Ethan Zindler, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Ethan Zindler is Head of Policy Analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance and is charged with managing and expanding BNEF’s coverage of key policy de...
Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk, GE Energy
Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk is the Global Smart Grid Technical Solutions Leader at GE Energy. GLOBAL IDEAS (www.ideasforacoolerworld.org) did an interview w...
Preserving the wetlands of Turkey
Wetlands play a key role in helping preserve biodiversity, and are also valuable in carbon storage. But farmers in Turkey often convert wetlands into ...
Climate protection comes to Croatia
Renewable energy is a topic that has yet to top the political agenda in Croatia, with only a handful of local projects addressing climate change-relat...
Fighting desertification in Morocco
Increasingly, arable land in Morocco is disappearing under the desert. Year by year, desertification poses a growing problem for farmers - and in Moro...
Species protection in Suriname
Healthy rainforests are key to the planet's survival. But how exactly do these unique ecosystems work? What are the principles of carbon sequestration...
Water Management in Madagascar
The Mahafaly Plateau in the southwestern region of Madagascar is one of the driest corners of the country, and also has one of its highest poverty rat...
Biochar in India
Bio coal is helping transform agriculture in India. In the south of the country, farmers are learning to produce bio coal out of agricultural waste. B...
Stemming mountain-forest loss in Rwanda
Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa, and also home to most of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas. But deforestation...
Biogas in Nepal
A climate protection project under the aegis of the World Wildlife Fund is treading new ground in the Nepalese lowlands. In order to protect local eco...
Eco-city Hamburg
Hamburg has scooped up the title "European green capital" for 2011. The northern German port city convinced the jury by presenting itself not as a gre...
Protecting Papua New Guinea's natural wealth
Almost a third of the world’s coral reefs are considered destroyed. Marine pollution, overfishing and climate change are increasingly threatening th...
Solar-powered pumps in Gambia
Gambia has been hard hit by climate change, and one of the effects of global warming has been a drop in the country's groundwater levels. The governme...
Guyana's green economy
Many countries home to lush rainforests sell off timber to make way for industry, agriculture and mining of natural resources, with the ultimate goal ...
Bringing electricity to the Andes
Many villages in the remote northern highlands of Peru are not connected to the electricity grid. Alternative energy sources are proving a big help. T...
Bringing energy to the Andes
Supplying energy to Peru’s remote north is costly and complicated. Even so, a number of villages now boast alternative energy sources thanks to aid ...
Bamboo houses in Colombia
Bamboo is a renewable building material. Capable of growing as much as 35 meters a year, it lends itself well to reforestation. Moreover, it absorbs f...
Eco supermarkets in South Africa
The refrigerators that supermarkets use to keep products fresh pose a major threat to the global environment, primarily because of ozone-destroying re...
Peter Agre, USA
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? Global Ideas asked Nobel Prize winners at the Nobel...
Johann Deisenhofer, Germany
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? Global Ideas asked Nobel Prize winners at the Nobel...
Peter Grünberg, Germany
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? Global Ideas asked Nobel Prize winners at the Nobel...
Sir Harold W. Kroto, Great Britain
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? Global Ideas asked Nobel Prize winners at the Nobel...
Robert B. Laughlin, USA
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? Global Ideas asked Nobel Prize winners at the Nobel...
Yuan Lee, Taiwan
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? Global Ideas asked Nobel Prize winners at the Nobel...
Ryoji Noyori, Japan
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? Global Ideas asked Nobel Prize winners at the Nobel...
Energy efficiency in Kyrgyzstan
Awareness and understanding of energy efficiency needs to be improved in Kyrgyzstan, especially in the country's impoverished mountainous regions. Bit...
GLOBAL IDEAS Statements
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? These are some of the questions Global Ideas report...
GLOBAL IDEAS Statements
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? These are some of the questions Global Ideas report...
GLOBAL IDEAS Statements
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? These are some of the questions Global Ideas report...
GLOBAL IDEAS Statements
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? These are some of the questions Global Ideas report...
GLOBAL IDEAS Statements
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? These are some of the questions Global Ideas report...
GLOBAL IDEAS Statements: How will our world look in the futur...
What are the telltale signs of climate change, who's responsible for it and how can it be tackled? These are some of the questions Global Ideas report...
Climate Protection in Papua New Guinea
The forest on the Huon Peninsula is Papua New Guinea?s first national conservation area. More than 70 percent of the country is covered in tropical ra...
New bogs in Belarus
The draining of marshlands and bogs releases harmful carbon dioxide that has been stored in the ground for centuries. The problem is particularly acut...
Island conservation in the Maldives
Island nations have been disproportionately hit by climate change. Rising sea levels increasingly threaten to submerge entire islands and climate chan...
Electricity for Mongolia
Mongolia's energy needs are mounting and the Central Asian country faces a major electricity shortage by 2012. So far, the government has relied on co...
Solar-powered villages in Argentina
The residents of the high mountains in northwestern Argentina lead a tough and frugal life. Their villages lie at an altitude of up to 4,200 meters, w...
Biomass briquettes in India
India produces millions of tons of waste each year in agriculture and forestry. But this biomass contains much more than just rubbish. That's somethin...
Rainforest Conservation in Brazil
The Amazonian rainforest, known as the "world's lung," is hurtling towards destruction. Soya farms, infrastructure projects and new settlements are en...
Climate aides in South Africa
More than a million people live in Khayelitsha, a township near Cape Town in South Africa. Most live in huts made of tin and wood. Many are bitterly p...
Green energy in Chile
With 13 major rivers, plenty of sun in the north of the country and more than 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) of breezy Pacific coast, the South Americ...
Cooling with the sun – green refrigerators in Swaziland
Swaziland, a small kingdom in southern Africa, is one of the poorest regions in the world. Most residents depend on farming and cattle grazing for the...
Water Pumps in Jordan
Water supply is one of the biggest development challenges in Jordan. A large share of the water reserves are in the Jordan Valley, located below sea l...
A New Forest for Georgia
The Caucasus is home to all kinds of landscapes - glaciers, forests, deserts, steppes. More than 7,000 species live between the Black Sea and the Casp...
Energy Efficiency in Bangladesh
Bangladesh suffers from frequent power cuts, plunging the country into darkness for hours at a time. Rural regions in particular are badly affected; s...
Clean air on Mexico's roads
Almost every day, Mexico City is shrouded in smog. To combat that problem the city has developed what it calls the "Plan Verde." This "Green Plan" is ...
Protecting Micronesia's Islands
It's the small island-nations in the Pacific Ocean that suffer most from climate change: On the Marshall Islands, on Palau and other Micronesian islan...
Coastal Conservation in Vietnam
Vietnam's coastal mangrove forests are suffering from climate change. What's more, intensive rice production and enormous shrimp farms are also damagi...
Reforestation in Tanzania
Tanzania's forests need protection. Each year wooded areas in the eastern African nation shrink by 400,000 hectares due to deforestation and wildfires...
Renewable energy on the Canary Islands
Within Europe, Spain is one of the leading nations when it comes to the use of renewable energy. One of the government's goals is for the El Hierro, o...
Efficient Stoves in Peru
Traditionally, people in the rural regions of Peru cook over an open fire at home. It's not only bad for the climate, it's also bad for the population...
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed talks to GLOBAL IDEAS
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed sat down with GLOBAL IDEAS to talk about climate change, rising waters and the potential eradication of his island...
Ghana's Eco-University
Valley View University in the Ghanian capital Accra has committed itself to sustainability. Power is generated from rooftop solar panels, rain water i...
Geothermal in Kenia
Until now, hydro power has been Kenya's largest energy source, but climate change is making this process increasingly difficult. Prolonged droughts re...
Forest Conservation in Russia
The Bikin Valley is the last real wilderness left in far eastern Russia, and is home to many threatened species. In addition, the primeval forest ther...
Sugar Cane in Brazil
The Brazilian sugar cane industry is booming. This is mostly due to the demand for ethanol which is used as biofuel. But a large part of the sugar can...
Hydropower in Honduras
In the Honduran city of La Esperanza, an old dam has been refitted to produce green energy. Designed with climate protection in mind from the start, t...
Solar Cookers in India
Hundreds of children attend the schools of the Muni Seva Ashram in the Western Indian state of Gujarat everyday. Their school meals used to be prepare...
Forest Conservation in Indonesia
Indonesia's rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. In southern Sumatra environmentalists are trying to save 24,000 hectares of peatland for...
Shore Defense in the Philippines
The people on the Philippine island of Negros are taking action against climate change. But for them it's not only about measures to save the climate....
Photovoltaic in Senegal
For the people in southern Senegal, batteries and diesel generators are a primary source of electricity. But now an increasing number of villages are ...
Palm Oil in Thailand
The stinking lagoons behind the small palm oil mill near Krabi pose a major threat to the climate. They release methane, a highly toxic greenhouse gas...
Solar Roofs in Mexico
The inhabitants of Heroes der Tecamac in Mexico City are taking action to protect the climate. To heat their water they don't use natural gas, instead...
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