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Losgeloest: Let the Tree Hug You
It was late last year when we brought bark cloth to your attention. Now the stuff has gone an won yet another award. Yep, one those ISPO sports awards we noted last week for the Waldmeister laminated...
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Tanzania: First African Member of U.N. Global Bioenergy Partnership
Tanzania will soon become the first African member of the Global Bio-Energy Partnership (GBEP), a partnership of nations whose purpose it is to promote the use and production of bioenergy, with a...
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Eco-tourism in Zanzibar
Zanziibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania known for its history as a key spice trading port, is still far off the beaten path of American tourists, but is increasingly on the radar of British,...
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Wonder Welders: Cool Recycled Metal Art by Tanzanians with Polio
That polio is still disabling people in this day and age is an unfortunate reality, but a group of victims in Tanzania has not let it stop them from becoming pioneering eco-artists. In 2004, they...
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Butterfly Explosion In Montréal
Image: Dave BergeronIt's that time of year again in Montréal when even the deepest and coldest snow drifts yield to the warm, melting power of the sun: the cyclists are out in full force, outdoor...
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Ah, Kipunji, We Hardly Knew You: Newly Discovered Monkey Already Threatened...
Unknown to science until three years ago, the Kipunji—a three-foot tall, grayish brown monkey with a long tail and a black face which lives in the Southern Highlands and Udzungwa Mountains of
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Green Living Project Documents Sustainability in Africa
Want a dream job? How about one where you travel to far off places, documenting all of the successful, sustainable projects that different community groups are not only trying but also excelling in?...
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Microbes in Dirt Provide Electricity for African Villagers
Providing electricity to people in countries where either the grid is not reliable, or nonexistent and unlikely ever to be built, can make a huge difference in
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"Economic Colonialism" Rears Its Ugly Head in African Biofuel Market
This is one for those people who don't believe labor and social justice issues are intimately
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Kona Donates AfricaBikes to Africa
Kona not only sells good bikes, sponsors riders to jump off things taller than our heads, and promotes recreational and functional biking, but it also is putting those bikes to work all over Africa....
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Climate Change To Take 68% Bite Out of Tanzania's Economy
Continuing its string of climate change warnings this week, the International Institute for Environment and Development has commented on just how badly the poor in Africa are going to be hit by...
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Climbing Kilimanjaro to Awaken the World to Water
How do you draw the world's attention to a deadly global scourge? Call up your friends and climb a mountain (it could help if your friends are mega-celebrities and MTV wants to make a film about it.)...
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Celebs on the Mountain: Watch MTV's Summit on the Summit
We've been closely watching the star-studded climb that brought Emile Hirsch, Jessica Biel, Isabel Lucas and others on a grueling trek to the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The climb, replete with...
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Rare Black Rhinos Return Home After 46 Years
After decades of poaching in the latter part of the 20th century, the fate of Eastern Black Rhinos in the Serengeti seemed bleak; By the 1990s, nearly all the region's rhinos had been wiped out as...
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Road Through Serengeti National Park Will Kill Annual Wildebeest Migration:...
Plans by the Tanzanian government to run a road through the northern part of the Serengeti National Park have been drawing criticism from a whole host of conservationists. Even though the part of the...
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World Bank May Save Serengeti From Bisecting Road
A quick update on the status of a proposed road that would bisect Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and potentially destroy the world renowned annual wildebeest migration. According to Mongabay, the...
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Controversial Serengeti Road Is Being Built After All
It seems some news we thought we learned about ten days ago, about the controversial road through Serengeti National Park in Tanzania being called off, wasn't entirely correct. The Tanzanian Natural...
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Solar Power Brings Computing to Rural Africa
Rural villagers, many of them women, are learning computing for the first time. And it's being done without fossil fuels.
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Another Shady Land Deal in Africa, This One Assisted By the U.S. Ambassador...
The think tank that revealed the connection between Ivy League universities and land grabs in Africa is now concerned about the support the U.S. ambassador to Tanzania is lending to a land deal in...
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