Experts

Ocean Acidification – Alicia Harold Carly, a Marine Scientist from Oceana.org, discusses how the acidification of oceans is leading to negative impacts on marine species, crashes in marine ecosystems and a decline in coral reefs.

Helen Zille, Premier of Western Cape speaks about Africa having leapfrogged the industrial revolution and headed straight for sustainable technology. Innovations coming out of Africa are excellent for combating the problems that have arisen from the Industrial Revolution in the rest of the world.

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Charles, Prince of Wales, International Sustainability Unit, Restoration of Forests. “Understanding the many praiseworthy achievements, I earnestly hope that the hours ahead, will also see the announcement of new ambitious initiatives and partnerships across sectors, communities and regions. Accelerated action ...

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP21: Paris 2015: Artha Graha Pedali, Sumatra, Indonesia, Conservation Area, Equatorial Forests, Palm Oil Industry is destroying Equatorial Forests and Orangutans

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Isis Alvarez works for the Global Forest Coalition – a group of social movements, NGOs and Indigenous People’s Organisations, which protects indigenous people’s rights when international forestry policies destroy livelihoods. The Global Forest Coalition is a collection of NGO’s, ...

Permaculture – John Turner – Organic Farming is now more popular than Genetically Modified (GM) Foods.  We have to change because the Industrial system has such a negative impact on the planet as it uses mineral dollars instead of solar dollars. GM has gone out of fashion. The feedback from ...

Luke Boshier discusses building methods with compacted soil and 3% cement – wattle and daub methods. The way the poorer people in the area build at the moment shows a victim mentality – they do not knead the clay properly or add mealie husks/grass to the mix so their houses ...

Permaculture farm – Kwa-Zulu Natal – Umgazi River – Luke Boshier – discussion on how aid and grants create dependency and destroy local farming

Permaculture farm – Kwa-Zulu Natal – Umgazi River – Luke Boshier – discussion on community land that will be developed. Workshops for 200 people (lifeskills), 60 people (food gardens), other courses on building, water and sanitation.  The soil is dead from repeated burnings which has destroyed all micro-organisms in the ...

The University of Earth –  Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Kirsty Lewis leads the Climate Security Team at the Met Office, Hadley Centre and is engaged in research about the effect of Climate Change of Global Food Security particularly for the most vulnerable