Lorenzo Perissinotto on Wild Fish resources
Lorenzo Perissinotto, Professor of Marine Biology, Zoology and Entomology at Rhodes University, South Africa, briefly talks about fishing and aqua culture.
Luke Boshier – Sustainable Farming – Part 1
Permaculture farm – Kwa-Zulu Natal – Umgazi River – Luke Boshier – discussion on community land that will be developed. Workshops for 200 people (lifeskills), 60 people (food gardens), other courses on building, water and sanitation. The soil is dead from repeated burnings which has destroyed all micro-organisms in the soil; top soil has been […]
Luke Boshier – Sustainable Farming – Part 2
Permaculture farm – Kwa-Zulu Natal – Umgazi River – Luke Boshier – discussion on how aid and grants create dependency and destroy local farming
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 […]
Maneka Sanjay Ghandi – The Impact of Female Hormones in Meat
Maneka Sanjay Ghandi, Union Minister and Environmentalist, India – discusses the use of female hormones in meat production and its impacts on the environment, other animals and the human body
Marcel Cruse – Smart Fish
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 5 – Marcel Cruse – Indian Ocean Smart Fish Project – This is a programme for the Implementation of a Regional Fisheries Strategy for the Eastern and Southern Africa – Indian Ocean Region
Marcus Asner – US Attorney – Prosecutor Bengis Case
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 8 – US Attorney, Marcus Asner, currently a lawyer in New York, was a federal prosecutor between 2000 to 2009 in Manhattan, and prosecuted amongst others, the James Bengis South and West coast Rock lobster and Patagonian toothfish […]
Mark Marcovino – Law Enforcement and Moving Sushi
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 7 – Marco Marcovino, EU Commission for Monitoring, Control and Surveillance of Fisheries; Multi-party Task team in Tanzania on Environmental Organised Crime, and leads an NPO called Moving Sushi, which provides ope access to an International Marine Database […]
MID-CENTURY CARBON NEUTRALITY PLAN ~ GET OUT OF COAL!
At a COP 22 Press Conference on Mid-century De-carbonization Strategies held in Marrakech, moderator Alden Meyer, Dir of Strategy and Policy at Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS-USA) introduces the panel speakers and summarizes the key reason for the presentation as being primarily a report back on the Paris Agreement encouragement for all countries to develop […]
Mining – Gunter Pauli
Gunter Pauli discusses Mineral Wealth and the need to rethink minerals as an engine for development
Mining and Oil – Tar Sands – Canada – Indigenous Environmental Network
Indigenous Environmental Network is a NPO working on behalf of indigenous communities located in areas where Tar Sands are being mined for oil. They are suffering from increasing levels of illness and cancers.
Mining and Oil – Tar Sands – Canadian Youth Protest
Demonstration by Canadian Youth at COP 20 concerning the lack of a coherent climate policy for Canada that would protect the rights of its citizens to a clean environment. Steven Harper’s government