Tag: Kenya - Page 4
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Tea Time: Educating a Workforce
In order for any company to be certified sustainable by the third party organization The Rainforest Alliance, there are certain areas in which they must be compliant. One of those areas is in the treatment of their work
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Tea Time: A Human Face on Where Your Cup of Tea Comes From
Waking up on our first morning in Kericho we were greeted with a spectacular sunrise and a slightly cool temperature. The journalists involved in the trip to the Lipton Tea Plantation in Kericho were scheduled to do a
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My Brush with the Wildlife in Kenya (Slideshow)
There is nothing as exhilarating as seeing animals in the wild. I was incredibly lucky to see a huge number of animals on my visit to Kenya. In both Nakuru National Park and Nairobi National Park I saw lions, baboons, tons
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A View of Kenya by Air and By Car
Join me for a mini tour of Kenya, with photos taken on a flight from Nairobi to Kericho and then covering the trip by car returning three days later. It turns out that the images that interested me were reflective of some of the pressing issues that
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Tea Time: Efficient Cooking in Rural Kenya
When I got to Kenya, everybody told me that I had to try ugali, which is pretty much considered the national dish. So I did. It's corn meal and water, cooked until it resembles bread dough before it rises. I can't honestly say it was the most delicious
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Tea Time: A Visit to a Sustainable Tea Plantation
I've just arrived back in Canada from a trip to Kericho, Kenya to see the Lipton Tea plantation. They are working in partnership with the Rainforest Alliance to have all of their tea plantations certified sustainable by the
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Get Out Now! 8 Places Soon to be Uninhabitable Because of Climate Change (Slideshow)
It's very tempting to think that sea level rise caused by climate change is something which won't be a problem for at least a couple of decades. And for some places that's probably true. However, for some islands around the
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Loving Trees in Kenya
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) is giving new meaning to loving trees and hugging trees in their Trees4Love campaign in Kenya. Over 5,000 trees are planned to take root in the Karura Forest in Kenya to fight climate change,
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300 MW Wind Farm Will Supply 30% of Kenya's Electric Demand
In any nation a wind farm of this size is worth announcing, but when it's going to be built in Africa it's doubly worth announcing. Lake Turkana Wind
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Nature Inspires Art in San Diego
Watching the world around us and the changes big and small that occur all the time, sometimes you just have to do something to reflect what you are experiencing. It is this need to create that brings
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A Solar Refrigeration System, Carried by Camels
Reaching the nomadic communities who roam the arid and hot Sahel of Africa with vaccines has always posed an exceptional challenge to health workers, particularly because vaccines need to be refrigerated. (See past posts on the Ice Battery.) National
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Protecting the Environment Will Combat Poverty: Wangari Maathai
The morning plenary session at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting last Friday was on the "Global Impact of Rural Innovation" and had quite a distinguished panel of speakers. Well, every session at CGI had impressive
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118,000 Mobile Phone Towers to be Powered by Renewable Energy in Developing World
In many parts of the developing world mobile phones have brought communications capabilities to places where building regular telephone lines would be
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5 Ways Geothermal Power is Heating Up Around the World
Last week when the US Geothermal Energy Association released it's biannual report which stated that geothermal power had grown by 20% so far this year , it cemented what TreeHugger said over a year ago: Geothermal power is the poor
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Kenyan Biofuel Expansion in Wetland Halted by Court, Temporarily
Plans by the Kenyan government to approve expansion of sugarcane cultivation in the Tana River Delta by Mumias, the nation's largest sugar cane producer, have been dealt a blow by the courts.
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Biofuel Crop Expansion Will Destroy Important Kenyan Coastal Wetland
A recently approved plan by the Kenyan government to expand sugarcane cultivation for biofuels in the Tana River Delta will devastate this important coastal wetland, according to The Royal Society for the
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The TH Interview: Wangari Maathai (Part Two)
"How can the planting of trees threaten presidents and ministers and people in authority? It's not the act of planting trees, it is the act of exposing the injustices that people in office carry out." Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai empowers
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The TH Interview: Wangari Maathai (Part One)
Yes, Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement, was the first to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for environmental work. But as she makes ever-so-clear, trees are not just ecological super heroes. They form a bridge to women’s rights,
