Tag: Kenya - Page 2
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PeePoo Bio Bags: A Cure For The 'Flying' Toilet
Approximately 40% of human beings alive today - 2.6 billion people - don't have access to toilets.
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Somalia Famine Could Claim 750,000 Lives in Next Four Months Without Better Aid
Children have walked for weeks across the desert to get to Dadaab, and many perish on the way. Others have died shortly after arrival. On the edge of the camp, a young girl stands amid the freshly made graves of 70 children, many of whom died of
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KFC Comes to East Africa, and Why That's a Bad Thing
Reports have been flowing out of Kenya about how long the lines have been at the newly-opened KFC in Nairobi. People are excited. But it's not a good thing for anyone except the beneficiaries of Yum Brands' bottom line.
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Refugees From East African Drought & Famine Tell Their Harrowing Stories
We've tried painting a compelling picture of the ongoing drought in East Africa, and accompanying famine in parts of Somalia, but without anyone on the ground there we've mostly just used stats and short clips of video. There have been few personal
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Profit for Good: Carbon Credits Bring Clean Water to Rural Kenya
I spent part of last month walking from home to home in Kagamega, Kenya, a mostly-rural region known for one of the last remaining tracts of the Congolese forest belt. It is not dissimilar to so much of the developing world,
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U.S.-Made Pesticide Continues to Kill Off Lions in Kenya
Despite people knowing for years that carbofuran, a pesticide also known as furadan, has been devastating the lion population in Kenya, and despite continued calls to ban the pesticide, it continues to be used—or more
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Kenya Supersizes Wildlife Corridors to Provide Safe Passage for Elephants
Compared to planting "bee roads" or building tunnels for toads, the task conservation groups took on in Kenya was a gargantuan one: Creating Africa's first dedicated elephant underpass, part
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Source of Sanitation Crisis Becomes Sustainable Power Solution in Africa's Largest Slum
In the impoverished Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera, often called "Africa's biggest slum," the lack of toilets and sewer systems leaves hundreds of thousands of people
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Proposed Biofuel Project in Kenya Would Produce More Emissions Than Fossil Fuels
People living on the coast of Kenya are
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Kenyan Villagers Turn Invasive Plant into Moneymaker
The rapid growth of invasive water hyacinths has taken a serious toll on Kenya's Lake Victoria, creating inhospitable conditions for the fish local people depend on, while sheltering other
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7 Volunteer Vacations...in Warm Climates
Right about now, winter is getting a little old -- especially for residents of the Northeast U.S. and Western Europe who've been pounded with snow, slammed by wind, and chilled with freezing temperatures for more than
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Yoga for Unity: Can Sun Salutations Resolve Tensions in Post-Conflict Areas?
It's hard to picture some of the most impoverished, and at one point violence-prone, regions in Kenya being turned into yoga studios, but that's what Yoga For Unity aims to do—and is starting to make happen. On December
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Red Cross Uses Solar-Powered Pumps to Increase Water Access in Sudan
However the referendum in South Sudan turns out, one thing will not go away quickly: the lack of water in the region. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, is at work on a project that will mitigate that
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Kenya Grants Environmental Rights in New Constitution
The issue in all this will obviously be in implementation and enforcement, but taking that as a given, this is really pretty great news: As AlterNet reports, Kenya's new constitution takes an important step in
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How Saving Energy at Work Can Light Up Africa With Solar (Video)
I already wrote about the Off-On program's efforts to turn energy savings in London into money for solar in Africa. We already know that solar can be a life saver in developing countries, and it can be a great
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"Pay As You Plant" Insurance Helps African Farmers Recover from Climate-Induced Crop Loss
Micro-insurance might be the latest in a string of technology applications that have brought exciting developments to perhaps one of the most surprising regions, rural Africa.
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Steve Daniels on Remarkable Innovation in Kenya's Informal Economy (Podcast)
In the US, do-it-yourself culture is counter culture, a playful middle finger to the silos of cookie-cutter consumerism (just look at Maker Faire). But in Africa, nearly everyone's a DIY-er to some degree. Steve Daniels became fascinated with the Jua
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Kenyan Man Builds Himself an Airplane From Scratch
If all goes according to plan, this week Gabriel Nderitu will join the ranks of aviation history by becoming the first Kenyan to achieve flight with a homemade airplane. The 42-year-old, like the Wright brothers before him,
