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Thursday
July 28
2011On Opposite Continents, 2 Individuals Turning Waste Into Wealth
Solid waste management is a serious problem in developing countries like Nepal, as dumping garbage in open spaces causes disease and pollution. Meanwhile, the favelas of Brazil offer few options for sustainable living, but one low-cost, sustainable village is in the planning. Courtesy of ViewChange, two videos explore real ecological alternatives.
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Thursday
June 16
2011A Kenyan Pedal Power Solution for Charging Mobile Phones
In rural Kenya, electricity sockets are hard to find but pedal power is everywhere, which is why inventor Pascal Katana has come up with an ingenious method to charge mobile phones using the energy generated by bicycles.
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Friday
June 10
2011ViewChange Video of the Week: Coconut Oil is Helping to Power Papua, New Guinea
It’s cheap, in plentiful supply, contributes less greenhouse gases that diesel, and smells great. The people of Bougainville have found their own solution to the energy crisis: the humble coconut tree. German emigrant Matthias Horn who established a "coconut refinery" several years ago, and now produces an oil that can replace diesel.
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Friday
May 20
2011ViewChange Video of the Week: Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
With drought prevailing in areas bordering the Saharan desert, farmers in Burkina Faso are exploring alternative ways to generate income. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) supports a program that provides training and support to people with ideas that could be transformed into successful business ventures.
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- Agriculture
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Thursday
May 12
2011ViewChange Video of the Week: Turning ’Chocolate Country’ into Co-Op Country
In the backcountry of the Dominican Republic, poor cacao farmers have been fighting a losing battle with the global economy for as long as anyone can remember. But the thriving Loma Guaconejo cooperative has found a way to turn the system on its head, sidestepping the middlemen and reaping increased profits for their goods.
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Sunday
May 8
2011Making a World of Difference this Mother?s Day
We know that extremely cost-effective investments allow more children and mothers to survive and thrive - from birth to early childhood education. This year, Save the Children partnered with Link TV’s ViewChange.org to create a documentary that takes a global tour of motherhood, while highlighting some of the remarkable approaches to change.
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Monday
April 25
2011ViewChange: Harnessing Commercial Markets to Fight Malaria
Today is World Malaria Day 2011. NextBillion video partner ViewChange is highlighting several films today that shine a light on successful anti-malaria enterprises, including NetMark, a public-private partnership dedicated to reducing malaria by harnessing the power of commercial markets to distribute insecticide-treated bed-nets (ITNs).
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Friday
April 22
2011On Earth Day: From Ecuador, Portrait of a Green Enterprise
Decades of oil drilling in Ecuador has devastated huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest and its wildlife, threatening to destroy the ancestral homes of native tribes and their culture. But some of these indigenous people are finding a way to balance development and conservation, while building an ecologolically friendly business enterprise.
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