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Healthy people in a healthy environment
Good health and well-being require a clean and harmonious environment where physical, psycho - logical, social and aesthetic factors are all given their due importance. These factors are affected by actions and choices which can secure considerable health benefits. The environment is thus not only important for its own sake, but as a resource for better living conditions and well-being.- What we’ve agreed: the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Development Goals
- Green savings
- What young people want
- Water – the key to life
- The air we breathe
- Safer, quieter towns and cities of the future – reclaiming the streets
- Active, healthy lifestyles
- Making energy sustainable
- On the safe side
- Listen to our voices – the Bandung Declaration
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Soil Archive
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LIFESTYLE CHOICES: A rewarding experience
Posted on September 30, 2011 | No CommentsAllotments – small plots of around 250 square metres – have been a feature of European cities since the early days of industrialization. Typically, they are owned by municipalities, and...
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SOIL: did you know?
Posted on October 2, 2011 | No CommentsAn average soil sample is 45 per cent minerals, 25 per cent water, 25 per cent air and 5 per cent organic matter; the organic portion can rise to 10... -
Youth action: saving our soils 1
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThere are many things you can do to improve soil right where you are, so be inspired by these examples promoting soil improvement and sustainability, led by young people from... -
Youth action: saving our soils 2
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsBüyük Kolej team, Turkey Oxygen Instead of Waste, Volvo Adventure 2011 Finalist Between 1980 and 2005, 40 million tonnes of trash were thrown into the 100-hectare Ankara Mamak City Dump... -
Youth action: saving our soils 3
Posted on October 8, 2011 | No CommentsKennedy Mbeva, Kenya, BYEE 2010 We’re always looking at modern solutions, looking to the future. But what if we look back? In May 2010, I read about how farmers in... -
Youth action: saving our soils 4
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsJerry Lee, Malaysia, BYEE 2010 I present an interactive, mobile environmental education exhibition to young people in Malaysia to promote the recycling of sewage sludge and treated effluent. In Malaysia,... -
Youth action: saving our soils 5
Posted on October 12, 2011 | No CommentsShalmali Tiwari, team Green Battle, India Volvo Adventure 2011 finalist In India, government-run schools in rural areas provide a midday meal, but students only eat a little and throw the... -
Youth action: saving our soils 6
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsVictoria Rogers and Michael Stevenson, Northern Ireland Think Globally, Eat Locally, Volvo Adventure 2011 2nd prize winner Our project, Think Globally, Eat Locally, at East Belfast’s Grosvenor Grammar School, encourages... -
Desertification: Not About Deserts 1
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsThe United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, established in 1994, is the only international agreement that links environment, development and the promotion of healthy soils. TUNZA spoke to Luc Gnacadja,... -
Desertification: Not About Deserts 2
Posted on October 18, 2011 | No CommentsTUNZA spoke to Luc Gnacadja, the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, about an issue that affects us all: TUNZA: Are modern, intensive farming practices a factor...
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