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"Gashaw Tahir, an American citizen, returned to his birth country of Ethiopia to find the green hills that surrounded his home eroded and ruined due to deforestation. So he decided to do something extraordinary: Plant one million trees."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa69MVyGNkA
Exemplary!
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"Is it possible to live without spending any cash whatsoever? After becoming disillusioned with consumer society, one man decided to give it a try.
An excerpt:
"I suppose the seeds of my decision to give up money – not just cash but any form of monetary credit – were sown seven years ago, in my final semester of a business and economics degree in Ireland, when I stumbled upon a DVD about Gandhi. He said we should "be the change we want to see in the world". Trouble was, I hadn't the faintest idea what change I wanted to be back then. I spent the next five years managing organic food companies, but by 2007, I realised that even "ethical business" would never be quite enough. The organic food industry, while a massive stepping stone to more ecological living, was rife with some of the same environmental flaws as the conventional system it was trying to usurp – excess plastic packaging, massive food miles, big businesses buying up little ones.
My eureka moment came during an afternoon's philosophising with a mate. We were chatting about global issues such as sweatshops, environmental destruction, factory farms, animal testing labs, wars over resources, when I realised I was looking at the world the wrong way – like a western doctor looks at a patient, focusing on symptoms more than root causes. Instead, I decided to attempt what I awkwardly term 'social homeopathy'."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/mark-boyle-money
He became joyful cooking outside even with rain and snow, he used a solar panel to power his cell phone, laptop, shower, lived with a compost toilet and growing organic food.
An other big lesson learned from this way of living beside being free and independent was bonding with others for kindness not for money.
What a beautiful story, what a beautiful person and great example for us all, I admire your experiment which is probably, now, your way of life.
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The Maldivian President is asking nations most vulnerable to climate change to take the lead in reducing global warming.The leader of a country threatened by rising sea levels slammed rich countries at a two-day conference for doing too little to prevent climate change.
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed says countries like his that are most at risk from global warming are looking not for what he called a "global suicide pact," but rather a "global survival pact."
(more at link)
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I think that asking those nations that are the most vulnerable to climate change to take the lead in reducing global warming is an absolutely brilliant idea. There's an element of "help yourself and God will help you" to this initiative, as well as giving a fine example to those countries which most pollute and most contribute to global warming.The Maldivian President is asking nations most vulnerable to climate change to take... more
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Very inspiring and courageous speech.
He built a wind mill from scraps to power his family's home, young William Kamkwamba.
P.S.: This is the update.Very inspiring and courageous speech.
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Excerpts:
"You may have heard something about "No Impact Man" or you may have heard about the guy who was going to live in New York City without making any environmental impact for a whole year (crazy, right?)."
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"Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.
It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, buses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage.
No problem - at least for Colin - but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own."
Great example and definitely inspiring.
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