Watamu Community and Marine Park Solid Waste Management Project
The Malindi and Watamu Marine Parks and Reserves were designated as Kenya’s first marine protected area in 1968 and later as part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1979. Watamu Marine Park covers 10 km2. The overall Park and Reserve area amounts to approximately 30km of coastline, with a fringing coral reef along its entirety. The Project area will cover approximately 8km of Marine Park and Reserve beaches as well as the immediate environs adjacent to the beaches.
Give Sustainable Independence to the Children of Uganda
After facing decades of conflict and internal displacement perpetuated by a brutal rebel army, the people of northern Uganda are eager to return to peace and stability. Those returning to areas hit hard by conflict face the new obstacle of rebuilding entire homes, schools, and water and sanitation systems. Earthships and Invisible Children are excited to launch collaboration with the local community in northern Uganda to reconstruct Puranga Secondary School.
Green Village = Green Future
There is an old African saying: Haba na haba, huijaza kibaba - little by little, all things are possible For me, the Carbon14 Environmental Award could be the difference between what is imminently possible and what is virtually impossible. As an educator, I spent several years traveling to and from Tanzania, in East Africa, working with local schools to improve teaching and learning.
GREEN WATERHUT
To me life is not worth living if nothing is done immediately for safeguarding the image of water resources and our environment. Why do I say that? We can not prevent poor people from destroying the environment or rich industries from polluting the environment if there are no alternatives to satisfy the needs of these people and protecting the environment.
Engineers Without Borders Clean Water Project in Yoro, Honduras
2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation; this is almost two fifths of the world's population. Water is a necessity, taken for granted in the United States, but in the rural village of El Convento, Honduras, clean water is not easily accessible. The water source currently available for the community is a polluted stream trickling through the small village of 45 families. Water in El Convento is extremely poor quality and contains chemical contaminants and microorganisms that cause frequent sickness.
A community-based tiger conservation initiative in the northwestern Himalayan tiger range areas in India
Conservation Himalayas (CH) is a non governmental organisation working with a mission to save wildlife and natural habitats in the northwestern Himalayan region in India. As the wild tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) population in India is fast declining with the current statistics showing an alarming figure at 1411, there has been now an urgent need to find strategic plan to save the remaining wild population of tigers motivating all sections of the society to understand severity of this tiger problem and get involved practically in the tiger conservation programme.
USES OF DISUSES(WASTAGE)
Nature is beautiful in itself but if it is disturbed then it will have the ugliest face of all. I am the bonafied member of non profitable environmental organization FEALPEC (Forum for Environmental Awareness OF Public Legal Concern). Butwal, my hometown is a city with beautiful scenery but due to increasing urbanization the environment of my surrounding is degrading day by day, increasing population of the city has led to increase in wastage in the city that has seriously polluted the surrounding environment and the nearby Tinau River.
From Miserable to Sustinable
From Measurable to Sustainable
When I was a young boy, living in a remote village in faraway western Nepal, I remember how my eyes would always burn and the dry, hacking cough I and my five siblings suffered from, resulting in my older sister Kalpana getting tuberculosis.
Smallholders Farmers Rural Radio - " education to protect and restore natural system that sustains life"
Nigeria’s greatest biodiversity wealth is found in rural poor communities. However, 70% of Nigeria’s 150 million people are rural dwellers but has been denied access to priority natural resources management information due to the collapse in agricultural extension services, the unreliable power supply system and lack of infrastructure to support rural internet penetration. This continuous inaccessibility to critical information has exacerbated environmental degradation, deepened rural poverty and accelerated food insecurity.
Living Museum and Youth Rural Life Improvement Initiative
Our organization:
Our organization the Association of Locally-Empowered Youth in Northern Mindanao (ALEY-NM) establishes and nurture “Living Museums” in poor, marginal, upland communities with the main aim of empowering local youth members so that they take care of the environment at the same time earn from the low external input sustainable farming ventures. Knowing the crucial link between poverty and dwindling resource-base, our focus will be to develop the land and improve the quality of lives of the youth.
Purpose:
Nic Tuff - History of Blue Lake
I am applying for the C-14 grant to accomplish my dream project: doing a documentary on the History of Blue Lake: My father was touring the White House at the time of the transfer back to the Taos Pueblo in 1970 by Richard Nixon and established family relations with members of the tribe that continues to this day. "Taos Blue Lake Hidden in the mountains of northern New Mexico lies Blue Lake or Ba Whyea, an ancient sacred site for the Taos Pueblo community.
Natalie Jeremijenko - Amphibious Architecture
I just launched a new project.
Amphibious Architecture, that is, arrays of fish-sensing-water-quality-displaying buoys you can text/sms, floating in East River and
http://amphibiousarchitecture.net/
AFRICA CDM CARBON MARKET FRAMEWORK
The purpose of this initiative is to launch a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Nairobi in partnership with CDM and Carbon market participants to facilitate CDM transactions and bridge both information and knowledge gaps required for high quality CDM investments, carbon financing, insurance/reinsurance, environmental management and sustainable development in Africa in general and Kenya in particular.
Bring clean water to the villages
When I traveled to a village outside of Gulu, Uganda which had been abandoned for many years, I saw something that gave me this idea. Use existing infrastructure and keep wells running.
Help Vicki, Help Frogs
My cause is frog conservation. I developed an apparatus that assists frogs during their metamorphosis from egg to adult that I call the Pollywoggery. I successfully raise Pacific tree frogs in an urban environment and they return to the Pollywoggery to breed year after year. I and Great Wilderness (a California based nonprofit)plan to conduct research on the efficacy of the Pollywoggery at the La Hesperia Biological Reserve in a cloud forest in the Andes of Ecuador. I need help in the form of money and volunteers to conduct this research.
The Carbon 14 Green Entrepreneur Project
This award will provide funds needed to promote conservation of biodiversity of the Mache Chindul Ecological of Ecuador (REMACH) by training low income young-entrepreneurs from small scale cacao producing communities, in the skills they need to overcome unemployment, poverty without jeopardizing biodiversity. Youth will learn sustainable business practices focusing on production of native cacao and ecotourism, so they can contribute to sustainable development of their community as well as protecting the forest.
Bringing Biogas to Bhutan
In the spring of 2008, I travelled to a remote part of Bhutan, a small developing country nestled in the Himalayas between India and China, as part of my work for the Tarayana Foundation. Nagor, one of the villages I visited, is a small farming community perched at the top of a mountain and a 3 day hike from the nearest motor road. A few years before, a company had proposed to undertake a biogas program in the area, but never fulfilled its promise. Therefore, with the help of the foundation I constructed a pilot biogas plant in Nagor to introduce the technology to the region. The C-14 grant would go a long way to bringing biogas to Bhutan and would substantially benefit the remote and poorest regions of the country.
Greenbird - Speed Sailing Machine
For the last 10 years I have been working towards the goal of being the fastest naturally powered human on the planet. This mission was accomplished on March 26th of this year, when I set a speed record of 126.2 mph on Dry Lake Ivanpah, near Las Vegas. The vehicle, Greenbird, was the 5th generation of a series of vehicles that I have designed, built and tested over the past 10 years.
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