The southern side of the Atlas Mountains in Algeria’s desert is turning green! What started as a vision of the civil engineer Mr. Madjid Abdellaziz, has over the past years turned into a wide green oasis, where now fruit trees, vegetables and wheat grow in the Sahara Desert. Even truffles, an exclusive gourmet delicacy in [...]
This is a very informative and inspiring video from the website of Project GreenHands (http://www.projectgreenhands.org), an action-driven organization committed to developing a hands-on approach that can be easily replicated by other rural communities worldwide. Project GreenHands (PGH) was established by Isha Foundation as a grassroots ecological initiative in Tamil Nadu. Through its activities it aims [...]
December 7th – 18th there will be the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. For this occasion the Guardian UK invites everybody to send a personal message to the conference by submitting a picture to the flickr group “a message to Copenhagen”.
One simple, heartfelt and beautifully designed message will surely inspire the hearts of [...]
