“Her work is focused on improving the landscape and environment within impoverished and low-income communities. Carter starts at home, where she grew up, in the South Bronx.
Majora Carter is an American environmental advocate and artist. She has demonstrated a range of environmental justice solution strategies in her hometown of the South Bronx, New York and [...]
In 2006, Al Gore gave a talk during the TED Global conference in Monterey California.
In this talk on averting climate crisis, Al Gore outlined 15 ways we can address climate change. Watch this talk at the TED web site or download the video file (zipped MP4, 57MB).
Al Gore later gave another TED Talk titled ‘New [...]
What a Start!
Last Saturday (Jan 2, 2009), I was out planting trees.
I thank God for the rains that have made this very possible. Following are some of the trees I planted:
Trees:
Fruit Trees:
What else we are growing:
The objective here is to go local by growing our own food, as much as we can. And damn it [...]
As the curtain falls on 2009, following is another top post on Green Kenya. This was first published on Tuesday, July 07 2009 at 1108hrs.
It attracted interesting comments. Several agribusiness service providers too sought to offer their services to those interested. In view of this development, Green Kenya will profile, link to and promote your [...]
This post was first published on Thursday, 02 Apr 2009 at 20:46hr.
The comments this post generated are also published below. You are welcome to share your thoughts on the same.
Indigenous Tree species
When I was growing up, there were very many tree species in my village. I am still under 30, but I had the chance [...]
FACT:
It no longer rains as much as it used to.
Intermittent Rain
The absence of reliable rain patterns in Kenya in the recent past has necessitated a rethink of the way we grow food. Rain fed agriculture is becoming less and less viable in Kenya. Farmers have incurred losses when their crops have failed, owing to lack [...]
On Friday, March 20, the Business Daily published an article titled “Are we going green or is this just a sick joke?” Reading through, I do acknowledge the writer’s take on why green technology hasn’t been as widely adopted as the hype that often heralds GreenTech campaigns.
Going green is in fact informed largely by economic [...]
The Copenhagen Climate Summit has officially begun, and leaders from all over the world have converged there to deliberate on the prevailing climate crisis that threatens to plunge the entire planet in peril unless drastic changes are effected soon.
In Pursuit of Profits
I am a going-green enthusiast, and honestly believe that every passing day brings us [...]
The Simple (and largely unattended) Things in Life
Going green is not that hard. We all know that it is the simple things in life that make the biggest difference. Right?
Yeah, right. These simple things also happen to be the most overlooked, and therefore, remain unattended or largely postponed.
Information Abounds
On a personal level, I kept agonizing [...]
This past week, I went over to Kenyatta University.
I took time to walk around and really enjoyed their well manured lawns, very many trees and well-kept flower beds.
Natural Shade
Adjacent to the University Library, there is an expansive room – The Reading Area. My area of interest was the pavement that connects the reading area to [...]
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