Luke Boshier – Sustainable Farming – Part 3
Luke Boshier discusses building methods with compacted soil and 3% cement – wattle and daub methods. The way the poorer people in the area build at the moment shows a victim mentality – they do not knead the clay properly or add mealie husks/grass to the mix so their houses collapse within a year. Tudor […]
Roger Godwin – Bees and Pollination
Roger Godwin, Project and Environmental Research, discussing Bees and the pollination services for the fruit industry. South Africa as a microcosm of what is happening globally. The American Foulbrood disease is just one disease being found in hives. There are not enough hives and bees left to manage pollination needed. The fruit industry in South […]
COP 21- Q&A Time – Green Funding, Natural Resources and Communities
The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Regulatory Frameworks and Green Funding with regard to helping Communities develop and exploit their own Natural Resources
John Turner – Organic Growing Soil
Permaculture – John Turner – A good soil develops over many seasons. It is a living entity, a synergy of bacteria, fungi, algae, and roots not just the actual soil type. The roots bring solar energy into the soil. The prediction of climate change was that there would be uneven rainfall. We can see that […]
COP 20 Stuart Scott Money Operating System
COP 20 Lima. Stuart Scott presentation on the Money Operating System, Neo-classic Economics and the role Money has played in the destruction of the global environment.
COP 21 Brighter Green – Meat as a driver of Deforestation
The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Executive Director of Brighter Green, Mia MacDonald, and Associate Wanqing Zhou presents a film narrated by Wen Bo of the Global Exploration Fund, on the increased demand for meat in China since the 1990s and the introduction of western fast foods into their economy. […]
Solar Panels – Gunter Pauli
Gunter Pauli talks about new Solar Panels designed in Sweden that continue to produce energy at night. See more information atgunterpauli.com/ and theblueeconomy.org/
COP 21 – Laurent Fabius – Four Categories at COP
The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP21: Paris 2015: Laurent Fabius, President COP21 – Introduction to the Conference – Question Time
Discussion on Whistleblowers – Burden of Proof on Perpetrators
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 12 – Discussion on Whistleblowers, Compensation for same, Burden of Proof to be placed on Perpetrators
Discussion Heidi du Preez and Beatrice Rabkin
Discussion by three Nutritionists – Heidi du Preez and Beatrice Rabkin, Regarding Nutrient-dense food in its most original form, preferably home-grown, wild foods
Global Warming – Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Union Minister adn Environmentalist, India – We need to understand that Global Warming is already upon us, we have already lost quality of life, now we are discussing life itself. Each country needs to take action with or without legislation.