Elysabeth Alfano is Helping Businesses to Benefit from Transforming to a Plant-Based Ecosystem through investments.
Ross Houston Genetically Improves Aquaculture Species to Advance Breeding Programs
View PostAn AgTech Leader in India is Using Blockchain to Empower Farmers and Consumers
Gaurav Somwanshi is the Co-Founder and CEO of EmerTech Innovations, a 2019 Dalai Lama Fellow, and has been tapped by the British Council as a “Future Leader.” The work he’s doing by connecting blockchain to agriculture is significantly improving the supply chain, quality and waste management, and overall leadership in the agriculture space. Working with India’s largest group of fruits …
Sonita Mbah Explains Ecovillages and Permaculture to Climate Advocates
Note from Publisher: We quickly found out that our time with Sonita Mbah would be less like an interview and more like a classroom session. We learned and relearned what we thought we knew about ecovillages and how permaculture fits into the picture. Sonita Mbah is the Exec. Secretary of Global Ecovillage Network Africa. Sonita is from Cameroon, but, she …
Joshua Konkankoh Builds Ecovillages and Promotes the Benefit of Permaculture
Joshua Konkankoh weaves a fascinating story of his growing up years in the beautiful forests of Cameroon. Those same forests thread throughout his life journey into ecovillage development and permaculture. His words paint a vivid picture of these villages where the connection between natural resources and human beings has a distinctive flow. His work, advocacy, activism, and love for Africa …
Jeanette Johnsen of FarmingAcademy Talks About the Education Platform That Pays its Educators
Jeanette Johnsen lights up when she talks about sheep – yes – sheep. Raising them has been a long-awaited childhood dream and one that has morphed into a mission to provide education in farming and all things agriculture to learners around the world. Her new platform, FarmingAcademy, is the solution she’s founded. More than an educational solution, it is also …
Festus Kiplagat of Green Planet Initiative in Africa is Organizing Thousands of Farmers to Improve Agriculture
Festus Kiplagat is a charismatic leader, advocate, agriforestry expert, and founder, but, he’s something more: He’s a grower from Kenya and very proud to be one. He wants youth around Africa to feel the same passion he has for the soil and to develop and nurture it in order to save the continent and the entire planet. If you talk …
Microalgae and Climate Change by David D. Ramjohn
Microalgae can reverse Global Warming that drives Climate Change. They did it once before and they can do it again if we harness their ability in diverse sustainable economic activity while changing our patterns of production and consumption from linear to circular. Approximately two point seven billion years ago Earth’s atmosphere had no free oxygen. Life prior to this time …
Jake Harriman and Nuru International Address Challenges in Violence-Prone Areas with Solutions to Extreme Poverty
In 2003, while serving as a Platoon Commander in the US Marine Corps Jake had a critically defining moment in his life…the kind of shock that changes you forever. It’s not a pretty story, but it’s one of the most riveting I think I’ve heard. Hear it for yourself. More on Jake’s story here. Jake attended Stanford Graduate School of …