Reports from GAIA activities in Southern Africa and India

A pamphlet on the food situation in the world today and local defensive actions that can be taken.

Read the pamphlet with information about Global Warming and Climate Change, as well as descriptions of what can happen in various parts of the world during this century.

24 suggestions for concrete and simple actions that can be taken as an individual or in groups. The last of the four pamphlets in this series - find all under "Fight Global Warming"

Open or download this presentation on how producing biofuel from jatropha can assist smallholders, local economies and both local and global environment.

Photos from visit and training by FACT Foundation and GAIA-Movement at ADPP's Farmers Club Project in Northern Mozambique, Nov 2007

"Water - soon a rare commodity" made for the Development Instructor Conference in Denmark, where international volunteers preparing themselves to work at projects in Africa and India discussed the issues.

Read the GAIA Newsletter with extracts from GAIA reports and a new project in Mozambique funded by Toyota.

Leia sobre as experiências sobre irrigação com bombas de corda na Escola de Artes e Ofícios, EAO Nhamatanda

See the final photo report from the biofuel project in Zambia - promoting jatropha production and testing use of the oil in dual fuel systems

Read the report and see photos from the biofuel conference held as part of the project funded by the Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP International)in Chibombo District, Zambia

Download or read the manuals describing how to set up low-cost or no-cost systems to improve environment and livelihoods

Open or download the poster on GAIA Activities

See photos from 6 projects and from Development Marketplace in Washington
Também em português, sob boletins

See the photo report from environmental training carried out by Christian Fenger, May 2007

A Newsletter in connection with World Water Day 2007 - "Coping with Water Scarcity"
Também em Português sob "Boletins"

Read the 2006 report on activities started by teacher trainees in 30 rural communities in Central Mozambique

Read the 2006 report on the project to promote jatropha plants for live fencing and future biofuel uses in Central Mozambique

See photos from the project in Quirimbas National Park in Northern Mozambique

See photos from four GAIA initiated projects such as the Chimoio project that has built the first rope windpump in Africa.
Também em português

Download the second and updated Portuguese version of 40 manuals for use in rural areas of Africa.

Read how Africa has a huge opportunity as producer of biofuels, and read a review of Lovelock's book "The Revenge of GAIA"

See the photos and texts of the permanent GAIA exhibition under Tvindkraft - the largest windpower plant up to the 90's

About various nutritious leafy vegetables locally found in Africa. How to grow and use them

How soaking seeds for half a day increases survival and yields.
Also in Portuguese

Volunteers needed to assist in translating manuals, applications, newsletters, etc., into Portuguese

Data in a new report from the Danish Technological University show the many environmental benefits of donating used clothes.

The newest report from the Rajasthan project about youth clubs, model gardens, rainwater harvesting, and much more

California's Silicon Valley is helping to make solar energy more cost-effective. Nanosolar in Palo Alto can make solar cells that are more durable than conventional cells and turn about 15 per cent of solar radiation into electricity.

Chardust has teamed up with an NGO that has an existing garbage collection program to encourage Kibera slum dwellers in Kenya to act as “carbon collectors”, salvaging charcoal dust to sell to Chardust for processing into briquettes.

A new type of biofuel with more energy than ethanol, and which can be produced more quickly and efficiently than other biofuels is produced by Researchers, study published in journal Nature.

The first commercial batch of environmentally-friendly biofuel from the sweet juice in the stalk of a new sweet sorghum hybrid has been produced in India.

July 31 was the greenest day of the calendar in India when more than 10 million trees planted in Uttar Pradesh in a single day by 600,000 volunteers.

In an attempt to avert a global health catastrophe, China has shut down five of its six remaining plants, putting the country two and a half years ahead of the Montreal Protocol's 2010 deadline for phase-out of the two ozone depleting chemicals.

Montreal Protocol's 20th Anniversary Celebrations led to an historic agreement by governments to tackle the twin challenges of protecting the ozone layer and combating climate change.

China has proposed to hasten development of clean renewable energies in an international multilateral science and technology cooperation scheme.

The renewable energy has evolved rapidly from an 'alternative' source of energy to a mainstream energy option, according to the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report 2007.

A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith, says David Dickson, Director of SciDev.Net.

The South African cabinet has approved an ambitious biofuels industrial strategy that will meet 75 per cent of the country's renewable energy target, in compliance with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

After the first oil crisis of 1973-74, Brazil began exploring ethanol production from sugarcane, as a way to reduce the country's reliance on oil imports. It now produces 15 of the 25 billion litres of ethanol used worldwide for energy production.

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and two Nepali NGO partners have developed a low-cost, innovative household water filter that is providing a long-term, sustainable solution to the problem of arsenic contamination.

SHE Inc has developed an affordable, efficient, eco- friendly cooking and portable “HotPot” solar oven in Mexico. Evolved from a single “panel”, the solar oven is priced at less than $30USD and can cook an entire chicken in less than 2 hours.

BushProof, a private business with offices in Madagascar, now providing low-cost water supply in record time. The organization has given concept for rapid water provision by “jetted well” in rural areas.

Though the way is long but Jatropha plant is making differences by yielding eco-friendly biodiesel as an alternative to fossil fuels. May it be Africa, parts of Asia or Latin America, plantations of jatropha are progressively appearing.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a way to convert carbon sources, such as coal to diesel fuel.

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center have developed a simple, cost-effective, energy-device designed to harvest daylight automatically.The device was designed as an alternative to traditional dimming ballast systems.

A record number of wind turbines were installed in the US in 2005. The wind power generated from these installations is expected to offset 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

About the new report "Africa up in Smoke" and how GAIA activities combat global warming. Também em Português.

A árvore moringa, com folhas nutritivas, e sementes para óleo e purificação de água

Read the March Newsletter - também em Português

Como proteger áreas naturais

Entrevista de BBC Brasil com o cientista James Lovelock

Read the February Newsletter with news from around the world - Also in Portuguese

Tephrosia - Usa-la como biopesticida e adubo verde