Tag Directory > Afforestation
- Home
- >>
Tags
We have 20 results for Afforestation.
1Outlook for ?Green Jobs? / Prognóstico para ?empleos verdes? 1 Citation While the idea of creating a ?green economy? with ?green jobs? has been around quite a while, it really started to gain serious consideration as the climate change debate heated up, and recently moved front-and-center during the US presidential elections and the debates about how best to respond to the global financial crisis (here, here, , technorati.com
|
1 Citation When I was 6 or 7 years old it was one of my dreams to buy land so that I could plant trees all over it... a few years later, I had another dream which was to have some land in an urban centre and make it into a park... so when I visited the garden set up by the Green Guerillas in New York City I was gob smacked by the vision and its impact on the immediate environment. I had an equally gob-smacking experience when, the other day I photographed Sakthi Amma's reafforestation revolution, technorati.com
|
1 Citation Tip O?Neil, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, once declared that ?all politics is local?. The same might be said for climate change. While its consequences are global, its root cause is the greenhouse gas emissions each of us emits directly or indirectly from our vehicles, buildings and appliances. If anthropogenic climate change is the result of the millions of energy decisions each of us makes in the course of our lives, then it stands to reason that the solution to climate cha, technorati.com
|
Praj Foundation launches afforestation project 1 Citation Indian Express : Praj Foundation, the CSR arm of Praj Industries, has designed and developed an afforestation project which was today inaugurated by mayor Rajlaxmi Bhosle. Parimal Chaudhari, managing trustee of Praj Foundation, Pramod Chaudhari, chairman Praj, Shashank Inamdar, CEO and MD Praj, were also present. The project includes tree plantation on BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) basis on 2 acres of land allotted by Pune Municipal Corporation. The project is located near Pashan lake. Ove, technorati.com
|
Africa proposes own solution to climate change: full range of bio-carbon sequestration actions 1 Citation Africa has not benefited from the carbon markets even though it has a large potential to help win the fight against climate change. Now a large coalition of African countries calls for the inclusion of carbon credits generated from agriculture and forestry in future climate agreements. This was the key message behind a fresh and bold initiative launched at the COP 14 meeting in Poznan, Poland. The initiative aims to become a movement comprising all countries from the Global South, where most pe, technorati.com
|
Africa proposes own solution to climate change: full range of bio-carbon sequestration actions 1 Citation Africa has not benefited from the carbon markets even though it has a large potential to help win the fight against climate change. Now a large coalition of African countries calls for the inclusion of carbon credits generated from agriculture and forestry in future climate agreements. This was the key message behind a fresh and bold initiative launched at the COP 14 meeting in Poznan, Poland. The initiative aims to become a movement comprising all countries from the Global South, where most peo, technorati.com
|
1 Citation In one year, the people of Warangal were able to raze to the ground 1,000 acres of forest land! This amazing achievement occured in the wake of the lifting of the ban on naxal groups by the Andhra Pradesh government. Tribals and non-tribals were instigated and encouraged to go on a felling spree and claim the land for agricultual purposes. However, the forest department has been on its toes to prevent the situation from getting out of hand, and reversing the damage. Gollapudi Srinivasa Rao repo, technorati.com
|
WaterBoxx Grows Forest in the Desert (CNW / Aquapro) 1 Citation Read at : CNW Group http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2008/17/c8639.html WaterBoxx Grows Forest in the Desert - New Dutch Invention Wins Prestigious Innovation Technology Award AMSTERDAM, Nov. 17 /CNW/ - A new Dutch breakthrough invention makes it possible to reforest large desert and rocky areas on the planet in the coming years. Experiments in the Sahara , technorati.com
|
REFORESTATION: Macedonians plant six million trees in single day 1 Citation In an attempt to replenish trees destroyed by wildfires and to green its countryside, Macedonia, a Balkan country that separated from Yugoslavia in 1991, recently held a mass reforestation project that planted 6 million trees. Imagine if citizens in every state of the United States planted 6 million trees or imagine if every country through reforestation and afforestation projects planted six million trees. Certainly, it would be a great event to bring the world together for a good cause. From, technorati.com
|
Another photo from Malawi, Africa 1 Citation We continue our daily presentation here of photos from Malawi, Africa, where our planting partner RIPPLE Africa has finished another successful planting season. About 1.5 million trees being planted on December and January! Today we have a photo of the Makuzi Afforestation club. We'll continue our celebration this upcoming week with new photos from RIPPLE Africa. Yours, Raz @ Eco-Libris www.ecolibris.net, technorati.com
|