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Ecology Embassy in the Culture Street
In a Belgrade neighborhood, the so-called Culture Street, there is a completely new and dynamic combination of culture and ecology – the first solar cultural centre in Serbia and beyond, called Eko...
BY MARKING TREES, MONTENEGRO PREVENTS THE ILLEGAL CUTTING OF FORESTS
With innovative equipment for digitizing the monitoring of forest areas, Montenegro will prevent illegal logging.
The Near Field Communication (NFC) is a technology that enables communication between devices located close to each other...
ANOTHER “LIQUID TREE” ON THE STREETS OF BELGRADE
The urban photo bioreactor called LIQUID 3, the first of its kind in Serbia, is an innovative biotechnological solution for combating air pollution in urban areas. The project was initiated and designed...
The First Glass Packaging Containers on the Streets in Sombor
The citizens of Sombor and the surrounding areas can start recycling glass, with the first 70 packaging waste containers being placed on the streets, and another 80 containers expected in the weeks...
KEPA Initiative “75UN – 75 Trees UNAI SDG7”
Responding to the invitation of KEPA for participation in the initiative "75UN - 75 Trees UNAI SDG7", the Chania Forest Directorate of the Decentralized Administration of Crete (DAC), will undertake the planting...
This Initiative Can Give City Trees a Second Life – and Create Jobs
The city is a difficult place for a tree to survive. Compared to their counterparts in the countryside, urban trees generally get less water, suffer more intense heat, compete for space with...
This App Plants Trees When People Make Lower-Carbon Choices
Ant Forest is a mobile game that has become China’s largest private sector tree-planting scheme.
The game has funded the planting of more than 120 million trees, covering more than 100,000...
From Farm to Street – Animal Health and Welfare at the Heart of the European Union Policies
We are still getting used to the absence of the purple cow from the packaging of popular chocolates and the faces of Gerda, Muccha and Marisa, wondering if their predecessor went on...
Entrepreneur Hoping to Make Electric Motorbikes a Staple of Thailand’s Streets
Bangkok has an extensive public transit network, but its maze of small side streets—sois—means that a destination is often a hike from a transit stop. In a city of extreme temperatures and...
Innovative Program Connects Donors and Tree-Planting Groups
In 2018, the United Nations (UN) declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration in an effort to reverse centuries of damage to forests, wetlands and other ecosystems. The following year, as...
The African Country That Inspired More and More Countries to Plant Billions of Trees
In the past 50 years, Ethiopia has lost 98% of its forested areas.
To mediate this, it planted an estimated 350 million trees in just a single day in 2019.
Their...
Harnessing Tech to Employ Last-Mile Tree Planters in a COVID-19 World
The year 2020 started with such optimism and hope for nature-based solutions and environmental sustainability.Environmental, social and governance investments were high on the agenda at Davos; the World Economic Forum launched the 1...
The Wonder Trees That Nurture Marine Biodiversity
This 2020 theme for the International Day of Forests on 21 March is Forests and Biodiversity. It's an often-quoted fact that forests are home to 80 per cent of terrestrial biodiversity, but...
A Future in Recycling: From Street Waste Collector to Entrepreneur
Young people on parts of the African continent sometimes turn to waste management as an ad hoc or extra job to make small money when they are struggling with unemployment, but often...
Kenyan Women Fight Invasive Species by Planting Indigenous Trees
When Zipporah Matumbi was growing up, she loved the way the forest in her village in East Kenya had a dense canopy. As an adult, she noticed that with extensive logging, the...
Trees in the City – Plaudits for Sustainable Urban Forestry Trailblazers
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Arbor Day Foundation announced the first cities to be recognized under the Tree Cities of the World programme, designed to help...
