OK.. so we are quickly dipping our toes into ‘mainstream world’ for a good reason… we felt a need to draw your attention to the efforts of Matt Damon’s new non-profit organization called Water.org. It is a project that is rapidly transforming hundreds of communities in Africa, South Asia and Central America by providing access [...]
The Digital Dump: Exporting High-Tech Re-use and abuse to Africa, exposes the ugly underbelly of what is thought to be an escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete, discarded computers and other e-scrap collected in North America and Europe and sent to developing countries by waste brokers and so-called recyclers, who blatantly dump containers full of [...]
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Tagged Africa, america, ban, cell phones, computer, cyber, digital, dump, earth, environmental, Europe, global, high tech, import, lagos, market, monitors, News, recycle, system, toxic, trade, TV, waste
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This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving [...]
The aim of Stamp it Out is to get rid of the use of out-of-date and racist phrases like ‘stone-age’ and ‘primitive’ from the language used by some journalists and writers to describe tribal peoples.
What’s the problem? “It is incorrect because all societies adapt and change, and it is dangerous because it is often used [...]
“I am worried about the destruction, because we don’t know if the people in the forest are still living. I had a sister among them”. – Native Amazon Indian (Arhi)
Unfortunately, with the expansion of certain corporations, comes the high price paid by uncontacted tribes, who suddenly find their world invaded by [...]
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Tagged communities, contact, environment, forest, julie christie, killing, logger, nomadic, protect, sister, survival-international, Tribal, tribes
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