The fashion industry, especially "Fast Fashion", is responsible for huge environmental impacts, such as loss of biodiversity, climate change, pollution etc. This video is about how can we mitigate the harmful effects of clothing from a consumer view.
Pour assurer la gestion durable des ressources naturelles et pour pallier aux impacts des crises climatiques et de la biodiversité, nous nous proposons de raconter comment notre technique de Lombricompostage a contribué à résolution des impacts des crises du climat, de la biodiversité et comment cela impactent-elles les systèmes de base, et comment impactent-elles les crises.
The story highlights my rude awakening to the intersection of fashion, biodiversity loss, and the climate change nexus with an African perspective shared. It provides system change recommendations that can be pursued to achieve sustainable fashion through advocacy and social movements that promote responsible production and consumption.
The story’s setting is a village in the Menabe region of central-western Madagascar. Affectionately called “the Land of Baobabs”, it is also unfortunately the land of slash-and-burn agriculture. Tahina, an agronomist and forester, believes firmly that soil is the core ingredient of a resilient and sustainable relationship between the local communities and their landscape. He journeys to meet his friend Bendray, a farmer-ranger and together they launch an initiative called “Taniala Regenerative Camp”. This initiative contributes to the regeneration of soils and ecosystems through permaculture design, agroecology, agroforestry and ecological restoration.
This is a story of a naturally endowed region of Nigeria, a state likened to a proverbial food basket in which the carrier is starving. It is a short submission of how human activities have through cultural practices inflicted harm on the natural environment (biodiversity). Included in this story is the need to reverse the negative trends and review steps towards achieving sustainable and harmless biodiversity.
Memoir From A Troubled Land, is a fictional work that focuses on the life of a young lady, Chinelo, who lives in a community that is laced with various environmental problems, such as deforestation, plastic pollution. This story explores the role Chinelo plays in achieving climate justice in her own right. But, she has to live with the guilt of her actions for a long time. Also, this story highlights steps public office holders can take in ensuring a safe, and conducive environment in their respective communities.
From a very young age at the high school level, I had a strong passion for the environment. This is when I started to volunteer under the United nation school club. I continue to gain relevant experience at environmental projects and through wide-ranging involvement with youth environmental organizations, especially the Tanzania youth biodiversity network.
A young boy aiming to be that change in his community, I am Fontoh, Age 29 from Cameroon, Founder of Cepow Cameroon. 10 years ago, in our community forest, common activities practised were bush fires, deforestation, and Sand extraction. This forest was home to a lone water catchment supplying 10000 inhabitants. Pollution and defecation on water sources were predominant. I can remember at age 23, my peers always insulted me for going to study rocks and claiming to be involved in keeping a legacy for Mother Nature. This became worst when a close friend told me “Desmond: A guy who plants trees, what gains will you have? Your friends are in search of corporate jobs and you are here planting trees”. Today we have planted, 7500 trees, trained 400 kids, created 5 Eco Clubs, Pick-up 10000kg of plastics, and trained about 100 youths on forest conservation and plastic recycling.
My story tries to touch on the most encountered most frequently whenever we participate in a litter clean up whether along the road or beaches: plastic bottles. This impacts biodiversity, especially marine, since when we have seen how a whale died due to ingesting 80 kg of plastics.
Even if we are not able to quit the use of plastic all of the sudden, we should still be innovative in recycling those plastics into useful products like eco-bricks. This at least will help to tackle plastic pollution and save our biodiversity.
New reforms to education in Africa are transforming learning opportunities for the continent's youth, but learners still lack access to relevant skills that will help them secure employment opportunities. What can be done? I am passionate about science, one of the things about science that drew me to it is the fact it's about the discovery of knowledge. I believe that Africa, and especially Kenya, has all the resources that it needs to keep its people healthy, yet people are not enjoying the best health. One way that I believe I can solve that problem is by researching medicinal plants because I believe we have those resources we just need to find out the compounds in plants that we can utilize to keep ourselves healthy. Everything that we need to be healthy is provided to us by nature, we just have to tap through research and also by educating people on how to apply those principles and knowledge that we learned from research into being healthy. I envision a world where there is equality, quality education, improved health services for all, and good, effective and transformative leaders.
Food is vital for survival, so making money of it comes with a sweet feeling knowing one can pay bills easily. The rural livelihood is always linked to the forest, putting the forest at the expense of risk. Should we eat at the forest's expense? Or, should the forest be preserved while the people starve? This is the current situation that has put the Indigenous people of Onigambari forest reserve communities in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria, in a dilemma over the past years of their existence.
Forest in the stomach is about actions that balance both forest and farming to coexist together in an environmentally sustainable manner.
de Nkolo Ayissi Victor Rodrigue
Je suis Monsieur NKOLO AYISSI Victor Rodrigue, née le 15 Septembre 1988 à NKOLFEP dans le Département de la LEKIE, Région du Centre Cameroun. Autodidacte, j'investis mes talents artistiques comme consultant dessinateur-illustrateur-bédéiste et innovateur dans des Institutions gouvernementales, Fondations et des ONG, dans le cadre des projets visant à sensibiliser et à soutenir les objectifs du développement durable(ODD). J’identifie également des opportunités là où les jeunes de mon âge ne voient que des obstacles et crises, raison pour laquelle j’ai décidé de dessiner et d’innover autrement en m’engageant pour la planète via le projet d’innovation (ABSORBER-CLEANER). Je compte à mes actives 13 années d’expérience atypique dans le domaine de l’Art et du design.
There is a need for the community to move away from short term solutions with negative impacts on the environment, and instead embrace solutions that are from nature itself and nature friendly when it comes to agriculture. At The Polly Foundation, we are training farmers to adopt the use of natural products that they can easily access either at no cost or less cost to help them in farming.
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