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Featured Peace Day Global Broadcast Solutions:

Featured Solutions By Corresponding United Nations Millennium Development Goals: More Solutions Follow Below

Plumpynut: One 3-ounce Plumpy'nut packet addresses hunger with 500 Calories per serving.  see video: Anderson Cooper

Action Against Hunger: Innovative, lifesaving programs in nutrition, food security, water and more.  see video

UN World Food Programme: the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. see video

PlayPumps: Improving access to safe water (see Water Crisis Facts) for growing food using pumps powered by kids playing.  see video

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Computers: Hand cranked computers for learning from a distance so children from the most impoverished places have access to education. see video

Room To Read: Partners with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality education by establishing libraries, constructing schools, and providing educators. see video

SEWA Nepal: Providing civil institutions, parents and individuals with emotional literacy education.

 

KIVA Micro Loans: Empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. They work in 194 countries, have provided loans to over 318,00 people, of which 82.33% were women. see video

Global Fund for Women: International network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. Since 1987 they have awarded over $71 million to 3,800 women's organizations in 167 countries.

Plant Trees: "They began to see that they were capable of many things, and they were equal to the men" Read On

 

Water.org: Clean water that decreases risk of death from sanitary diseases.

Project Concern International (PCI): Lifesaving resources for high-risk pregnancies and complications during childbirth. 

Mobile Telemedicine Technologies: Improved heath care for children in remote areas.

Therapeutic Milk F100: Contains all the nutrients necessary in the treatment of severe malnutrition.  see video: UNICEF

 

Medicine For Humanity: Works to improve the health of women in underserved populations by bringing much needed medical care and creating sustainable programs of education, prevention and treatment. Read On

Malnutrition Matters: providing sustainable food technology solutions for malnutrition, primarily by using soya, but also cereals, grains, fruits and vegetables. These plant-based foods offer the greatest nutritional, environmental and economic benefits.

Therapeutic CMV:  Mineral and vitamin complex designed for the treatment of severe malnutrition.

 

Nothing But Nets: Every $10 contribution to Nothing But Nets covers the cost of purchasing a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net, distributing it, and educating communities on its use. see video

GMHC: World’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy.

Doctors Without Borders:  Over 27,000 nurses and doctors who volunteer to provide medical to people whose survival is threatened by armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

 

Bloom Box: new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid, that's inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. see video: Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes

Aprovecho Rocket Stoves: This ingenious technology decreases pressures on deforestation, health disease caused by smoke, and pollution form open fires.

Paulownia Tree: Fastest growing Hardwood Tree on Earth. it can be used for reforestation, sustainable lumber and fuel.

 

INVENEO:  Provides people at the local level with Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) systems thereby empowering a means for them to prosper from the global marketplace of goods and ideas, get educated, and through telemedicine improves a number a health issues.  See Video: CNN Gobal Challenges

Clinton Global Initiative: Practical solutions to global issues through measurable Commitments to Action.

Peace Portal: Project networking and sustainable solutions community network.

 

Additional Solution Segments Planned For Inclusion in the 2010 Peace Day Global Broadcast

Malaria No More: Blanketing Africa with mosquito nets, effective medicine and targeted spraying to stop people dying from malaria.

Better World Campaign: Works to foster a strong, effective relationship between the United States and the United Nations (UN) through outreach, communications, and advocacy.

Sky Farming: Imagine a cluster of 30-story producing fruit, vegetables, and grains while also generating clean energy and purifying waste water.

Solar Fridge: Small portable unit requiring no outside power source that is used to keep food cool for days so it does not spoil.

SolarFlex Fruit & Vegetable Dryer: Passive solar fruit and vegetable dryer that has a flexible design and is inexpensive to manufacture. Drying fruits and vegetables with this system is a cost effective long-term food storage solution that requires no external electricity to operate, and eliminates the need for chemical preservatives.

Trees For Life: Using the fabulous Moringa Tree, and working on projects that address soil regeneration, this organization has planted tens of millions of fruit trees in India, Guatemala, Haiti, and Brazil since 1984.

SRI Rice Intensification: Methodology for increasing the productivity of irrigated rice cultivation by changing the management of plants, soil, water and nutrients. SRI practices lead to healthier, more productive soil by nurturing the abundance and diversity of soil organisms.

Vegawatt: The Vegawatt biofuel generator is an exellent solution for the up-cycling of used cooking oil waste. It includes a turn-key waste vegetable oil (WVO) refinery, automatically transforming  waste cooking oil to a readily available source of fuel to generate on-site electricity and hot water.

Charity: Water: Installation and rehabilitation of freshwater systems to address the Water Crisis through the formation and training of local water committees who are empowered to maintain the systems, and promote better sanitation and hygiene for the community, resulting in overall improvement in the quality of life.

Atmospheric Water Technology: Creating clean water from thin air using ozonation. Ozonation is a clean and efficient alternative to chlorine-based water treatment. It's not only a powerful way to eradicate bacteria and viruses; it's also a highly effective bleaching agent. Ozonation is also Nontoxic.

ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization): Technical support helping community development organizations and workers increase agricultural development in over 180 countries.

Micro finance: Some 500 million poor worldwide have reportedly benefited from $6 billion in micro-loans leading to greater self-sustainability and increase in local development for the poor.

SCALE: Open source economic solution allowing people to exchange (recycle) clothes, toys, gadgets, coupons and more using “community credit” to get things they need; thereby decreasing the amount of “public money” one must earn to meet their family or individual needs. Find our more about the SCALE model by clicking here.

Pedal Pro:  Energy generation using a basic bicycle for rural and village sites without electricity.

CyberSenga: Project of Internet Solutions for Kids that aims to use the Internet to help increase HIV preventive behavior among adolescents in Uganda.

I am Richard ROBINSON an independent eco activist from Erode district a small town in the state of Tamil Nadu INDIA, since my infancy I found myself attached deeply towards nature and species this further led me to learn while I walked, without knowing those scientific facts and terminologies, I started from mimicking to the black bird’s ringing, which I lately studied as Asian Koel (Eudynamys Scolopacea) and the imitation I did was bird Ringing and birding, And along with my friends we started to plant trees, further after years in 2004 and likeminded naturalists we formed a non profit organization named JEEVAKARUNYA TRUST, with a motto to Train and implement youth In Sustainable Development work promoting environmental, ecological and humanitarian values and importance,

 

And now, still learning educating and training the younger generation’s to involve individually and collectively in all eco-development activities and decision makings  I have individually conducted hundreds of seminars and converted them to eco-actions,

24 hour x 7 days Snake Rescues along with a trained team,

Free seminars, slid shows and movie for the all local and surrounded educational institutions,

Conservation based weed removal action for Tribal livelihood development trainings

Clean renewable energy solar lamp implementation to rural and tribal those not accessed with power,

And many innovative initiatives like craft from the plant lantana camera which is considered as a weed destroying native forest and farm lands, GREEN CROSS eco action clubs, and more to bring a change in the un-mind full living of the most populace   even though we find very tuff and hard to move every step without any support, I believe that we can make it, I also swear that what ever happens I am not going to quit my duty towards nature, of conserving the only home at least in this 11 hour... 

 

I believe in the world

 

This is GREAT and gave me a good belly laugh. 

The spirit of Christmas is all about LOVE, and not how much lighting one has in front of their home. I find it refreshing when people don't try to keep up with the neighbors. You can have a Less is More attitude about Christmas lighting and still be in the spirit of Christmas.


The Ditto house owners are very clever, creative and obviously have a great sense of humor.

 

 

Greenbuild 2009 International Conference and Expo is being held in Phoenix, Arizona from November 11th - 13th.

Former Vice President Al Gore will be the opening Keynote speaker tonight, November 11th at the Greenbuild conference. You can watch his speech and other keynote speakers live or as archived video later here at GreenbuildExpo.org.

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The Ki is hosting a CleanTech Road Rally along with our premium sustainable lifestyle event.  The road rally will have checkpoints at Bio-dynamic and organic wineries in addition to the Gaia Hotel and Spa in Napa Valley, eventually ending at The Ki flagship event.  The goal is to raise awareness about the need for clean, efficient vehicles and demonstrate technologies that exist today.  We are accepting entries including electric cars, clean diesel vehicles, hybrids or alternative solutions.  Would love to talk to some people about our event and interested participants.  Please check out our website at www.theki.net and e-mail me at david@theki.net for more information.