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Learning Today to Change Tomorrow |
Video Clip Competition Submission deadline: July 28, 2010 The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) Secretariat is launching a video clip competition open to people of all ages and backgrounds worldwide. The winner will receive a Sony HDR-CX-116 Camescope Full HD with flash memory, generously donated by Sony France; finalists will have their video featured on UNESCO´s DESD website.
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Seven CoCooN Integrated Projects awarded |
The first call of the CoCooN programme – Conflict and Cooperation over Natural Resources in Developing Countries – has resulted in the awarding of seven Integrated Projects. Each of the awarded project demonstrates integration and synergy of three perspectives: a clear development perspective, high-quality knowledge and research, and capacity building. All with the same purpose, to adequately manage, resolve and learn from conflicts over natural resources.
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Cso Consultation Session by Mahlet Tadesse On May 12, 2010, Forum for Environment, Secretariat of the Ethiopian Civil Society Network on Climate Change (ECSNCC) organized a half day consultation meeting with ECNSCC members to discuss on the recent developments in the country concerning climate change, specifically the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA), Program of Adaptation for Climate Change and Carbon Neutral Climate Resilient – Ethiopia (CNCR-E) program.
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Enhancing Communication & Client's Facilities in Suswa |
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Mt. Suswa has well renowned lava tunnels (caves). It is considered to be the world’s most complex braided system of lava tubes. The Suswa Caves will be the main tourist attraction in the Mt. Suswa Conservancy. It has a Pre-historic occupation and a historic habitation by Kenyan Mau Mau fighters during the colonial era. It has ecologically important new insect species, rare bat colonies and habitation by carnivores such as leopard. Their ecological impact on the caves has been the source of many studies and scientific papers.
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ETHIOPIA: The village that will not need food aid |
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ABREHA WE ATSEBEHA, 9 June 2010 (IRIN) - "We will be self-sufficient," said Gebremichael Giday, chairman of Abreha we Atsebeha, a village high in the arid uplands of northern Ethiopia, about 45km from Mekele, capital of the Tigray region. He is confident that in another 10 years they will not need food aid.
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International Congress: Water 2011 |
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Integrated water resources management in tropical and subtropical drylands Location: Mekelle, Ethiopia Date: 19-26 September 2011 Over the last decade, significant advances have been madein tropical and subtropical drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa to boost sustainable use of water resources for increasing food production. This international symposium aims at creating a forum for those conducting research in drylands of Africa as well as in comparable regions around the globe to discuss results and to exchange experience during paper and poster sessions as well as during field excursions. The congress will be held at Mekelle, the regional capital of Ethiopia’s northern province Tigray. Mekelle University has been spearheading interdisciplinary research on water resources management in the Ethiopian dry lands, covering issues that are of relevance for many tropical and subtropical regions in the world.
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Method That Turns Wastelands Green Wins 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge |
BY Cliff Kuang, Wed Jun 2, 2010
Livestock might not be just the cause of desertification--they might also be the solution. Today, the Buckminster Fuller Institute announced the winner of its 2010 Challenge: Allan Savory, who has spent the last 50 years refining and evangelizing for a method of reversing desertification that he calls "holistic management." The African Center for Holistic Management International, an NGO he helped found, will take home a $100,000 grant.
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World Environment News from Planet Ark |
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World simmers in hottest year so far Date: 19-Jul-10
Country: US
Author: Alina Selyukh
The world is enduring the hottest year on record, according to a U.S. national weather analysis, causing droughts worldwide and a concern for U.S. farmers counting on another bumper year.
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