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A delegation from Rwanda is attending the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Madrid, Spain. The delegation is led by Minister of Environment, Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya and includes representatives from government, the private sector, civil society and young Rwandans.
The COP25 aims to raise global ambition to address climate change and develop a robust rulebook to govern the Paris Agreement.
UN Environment hosted the 2018 Champions of the Earth Awards in New York City on September 26, 2018. (C) UN Environment / Russ Rowland and Andi Schreiber
The tango and belly dancers encouraged audience members to dance with them. Soon lots of people were dancing, This was one of my favourite parts of The Offering.
Hairy bittercress blooms near Pope Branch in Southeast Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2019. The common yard plant is considered a weed as well as an early source of food for pollinators. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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These photos and videos show the 121 volunteers hard at work in Bread and Cheese Creek in the Berkshire area and along the Berkshire Road Tributary on 4/14/12. Together we cut up and removed 8 fallen trees blocking the flow of the stream, over a Forty Yard dumpsters worth of trash and debris (475 trash bags) as well over 2,000 pounds of metal, which included 6 shopping carts, 5 tires, 5 unused shotgun shells, 5 full cans of spray paint, 3 bicycles, 3 cell phones, 2 scooters, 2 TV sets, 2 tire rims, a recliner, a port hole, a car batteries, a lawnmower, a can of paint, a concrete donkey and much, much more!
All left over donated food is re-donated to the local food kitchen “Saint Rita's Table”; which hosts dinners for Dundalk's needy and homeless every Monday evening.
Although we had help and volunteers from many organizations we would like thank the following: The Ocean Conservancy, Sun Products Corporation, American Rivers, Entenmanns Discount Bakery Outlet of Dundalk, DEPS, Baltimore County Highways, Charlie’s Discount, The Baltimore County Geocache Club, Team HellCamino , Gold’s Gym, Gotugo, Constellation Energy, Towson University and Circle K, and the Boy Scouts all provided lots of hardworking volunteers! ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS – We couldn’t do any of this without you!
If we missed your group, please let us know and we will include you as well!
We are a not-for-profit organization with no paid positions and absolutely no funding relying completely upon donations to clean and restore the environment in the Dundalk Area.
Thank you volunteers and sponsors, we couldn't do it without you!
To learn more about Clean Bread and Cheese Creek please visit our www.BreadandCheeseCreek.org
“My dream is finally in motion! With a team of Greenfleet superheroes, we're working to turn all the steep and wet parts of my farm back to native bush. This is an area of 34.5 hectares!! I can't wait for the day that I can make this area into a sanctuary for our native animals and birds and see bush instead of bare hills being reduced by wind and soil erosion.”
Emma Brown could not wipe the smile off her face in June 2016, for every tree planted on her farm by the Greenfleet team brought her one step closer to fulfil a dream she’s had ever since she bought the land.
After investigating a range of options over the years, from grants to partnerships with not-for-profits, Emma had concluded that “Greenfleet was the only organisation that could help me do what I wanted to do.”
Together with tree planting professional Frank and his team, we planted 30,000 native trees at Glorious Googies with a mixture of 28 species, re-establishing the wet forest and warm temperate rainforest ecosystem that once existed on the Gippsland farm.
“The team at Greenfleet is very clever. They have done a survey of what the original bush would have been like. They're also using flowering native plants that are indigenous at my request for the insects and bees and birds,” Emma explained.
“The area we’ve chosen is steep and rugged – and should never have been cleared in the first place. Working with Greenfleet provides us with a great opportunity to leave a legacy beyond what the two of us and our chooks could ever hope to do,” she added.
Trees will help with the visible erosion on Korumburra and provide natural shelter for the 1,200 free-range chooks which spend their days foraging around the paddocks. “It gets windy here – so the trees will help with protection against the wind, as well as with the water evaporation that further damages the soil,” she explains.
A recent academic study by Nagle and Glatz has found enriching the free-range environment attracts chickens out of their coops and onto the land. The research confirms that well-sheltered pasture areas produce healthier and happier hens.
Emma is “100 per cent confident” that the revegetation process of this ‘chicken haven’ will improve the farm’s productivity, as well as providing new habitat for native wildlife.
“It will be a ‘bush block’ that we can enjoy for bushwalks in our own backyard. How good is that?”
Find out more about Greenfleet and how you can help plant more trees: www.greenfleet.org.au
On Feb. 24, 2016, we brought our Environmental Film Festival to VWO/HAVO Maho in Saramacca. The students watched documentaries on mercury pollution and climate change. Thanks for inviting us to your school!
Anti-war protestors climb onto the Victoria Square fountain in the middle of the Adelaide CBD, while other dissenters stand and applaud.
Enjoy this image from Earth 2050, our free community event hosted by Green Change on Sunday, April 24, 2022 in Mill Valley, California.
Over a thousand people of all ages joined our Earth Day celebration, to enjoy informative exhibits and activities, fine art, good food, inspiring talks and music. We invited participants to help create a better world by taking actions such as: use clean energy, eat sustainably, live lightly and build healthy communities.
Thanks to everyone who made Earth 2050 possible, including our wonderful exhibitors, artists, musicians, speakers, volunteers and team members! Special thanks to our partners at Mill Valley Recreation and to all our sponsors, including Good Earth, Marin Water, MCE, Mill Valley Refuse and Straus Family Creamery, to name but a few. We loved your thoughtful participation and hope you found this event as fulfilling as we did. :)
We’re particularly grateful to all our volunteer photographers and videographers, who graciously captured the spirit of our community celebration through images like this one. Kudos to key media contributors Stu Bass, Luis Costa, Dana Dworin, Fabrice Florin, Sonia Lee and Michael Wanger – as well as to Kathi Ellick, Vickisa Feinberg, Tom Flynn, Molly Given, Sean McGrew, Paul Moe, Erma Murphy, Max Perrey and Emma Sixta, for contributing their photos and videos of Earth 2050 as a public service for GreenChange.net .
Our Earth 2050 images are freely licensed for public and educational use under the terms of Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0, which requires credits to our photographers, as well as to GreenChange.net . Creator names for each photo or video in this album are shown as tags: click on any tag to see more images from that creator.
Click the links below to see more photos and videos of our favorite moments from Earth 2050, along with related information. We hope they will inspire you to take action in your own life to protect our future and build a more just and sustainable world by 2050.
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• Earth 2050 Photo Album: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72177720298766189
• Earth 2050 Video Album: vimeo.com/showcase/9506624
• Earth 2050 Event Page: www.greenchange.net/earth2050/
• More Green Change Videos: vimeo.com/showcase/5820202
• About Green Change: www.greenchange.net/
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An American beaver is seen at Greenwoods Conservancy, a 1,200-acre property in Burlington, N.Y., that is owned by Earle Peterson and protected through a conservation easement with the Otsego Land Trust, on May 23, 2015. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Marine turtles have been used for eggs, meat, shell, oil, leather or other products for 7000 years. Modern times have introduced another way for society to profit from these species - to generate economic income as a tourism attraction. Sound turtle management relies on local communities, which – as economic incentive - should receive a fair share of the revenues. In many cases, the bulk of the revenues from the local level end up elsewhere, even outside the country – through international tour operators, for instance. Nearly half of the gross revenue from tourism expenditure in Costa Rica remains outside the country. Potential tortoiseshell exports from Cuba to Japan, would add up to 70% of revenue within the importing country.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
An important role played by the ocean is the storage and exchange of CO2 with the atmosphere, and its diffusion toward deeper layers. At high latitudes, dense waters sink, transferring carbon to the deep ocean. Warming of the ocean surface inhibits this sinking process and therefore reduces the efficiency of CO2 transport and storage. Furthermore, as water warms up, the solubility of CO2 declines, therefore less gas can be stored in the sea water.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Riccardo Pravettoni
Unstable Empathy is an intimate environment mediated by the mind activity of two players who are constantly
forced to negotiate their empathic state, it's a collaborative experience in which the meanings of cooperation and entangment
are directly perceived on the physiological level.
The installation consists of a sculptural object functioning as an intimate interface between two players equipped
with EEG (electroencephalographic) headsets who, by means of their own brain activities, are forced to negotiate their emotions
in order to unveil their facial details. With the only prompt being to “feel," the two players develop their own methodology
of interaction to discover their own physiognomy, and ultimately experience their separate selves as a whole entity.
Unstable Empathy is a project by Mattia Casalegno and Enzo Varriale (LanVidesource), produced by iMAL.
Curators and coordinators: Marie-Laure Delaby and Yves Bernard
Funding Partner: European Commission Culture Programme, French Speaking Community of Belgium (digital art commission)
EEG technology provided by Emotiv inc.
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
UN Environment hosted the 2018 Champions of the Earth Awards in New York City on September 26, 2018. (C) UN Environment / Russ Rowland and Andi Schreiber
Inspired by the traditional all-night concerts along India’s Ganges River, Sun to Stars evokes the traditional durbar and bethak-style concerts where performers and audiences interact in an informal setting to create an intimate artistic experience. With a backdrop defined by both natural and urban elements, the performers present work that grapples with the environment, be it through mythological folktales or a particular raga connected to nature.
The Sun to Stars festival is solar-powered by the energy collected by the photovoltaic panels on the Solar 1 roof. The event also features a market place that includes regional South Asian cuisine from local chefs, Indian style seating with floor rugs and cushions, and information about important local South Asian and environmental nonprofit organizations.
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Dr. Jaime Prohens (Spain; left), with Dr. Hemal Fonseka (Sri Lanka; middle) and Dr. Auguste Kouassi (Cote d’Ivoire; right) exchange seeds that “allows the complementarity of environments in order to obtain a maximum of seed combinations”, says Prohens. “Sometimes hybrid or backcross seed for particular combinations are obtained in one country but not in the others.”
Credit: Shawn Landersz for the Crop Wild Relatives Project
Women doing on-the-spot training at COP15. Target 22 is being held up by a single word. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.