Sustainable tourism experience in World Heritage Site Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California. Cabo Pulmo is a conservation success story of local, national, and international significance. In the 1970s-80s, rampant overfishing severely degraded the reef. Local communities recognized that fact, and petitioned the government
Read more →Strengthening community ties via solar energy. 2,000 Warao Indian households in the lower Orinoco Belt have access to electricity supplied by hundreds of photovoltaic systems installed and maintained by the local Ruta de la Energía Solar (Path to Solar Energy) association. Launched in 2006, this rural electrification
Read more →Community Energy in Greater Blue Mountains Area World Heritage site. BM Renew is a volunteer group of Blue Mountains people working together to create community-owned renewable energy projects right here in World-Heritage listed area. In September 2011, a public forum on renewable energy was organised by Permaculture Blue
Read more →Remediation action in Shennongjia biosphere reserve. With abundant rain and water resources and a mid-latitude location, Shennongjia is home to more than 3,700 kinds of plants and at least 1,060 species of animals, including the famous golden monkeys. About 96 percent of the reserve is covered by primeval
Read more →RE city in the hearth of Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve. In 1999, the executive committee of Kristianstad municipality unanimously decided to declare its will to become a Fossil Fuel Free Municipality. The reduction of fossil fuels is to be achieved primarily by the use of bio-fuels,
Read more →A model of self-supported settlement based on RE Create a model of self-supported settlement in the Issyk-Kul Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO aegis with the maximal use of local resources. The project is aimed at complex approach to problem solving regarding the use of local resources to generate
Read more →Large scale wind power in Pincher Creek. Wind energy is an emerging economic influence. The BR was not positioned for the first wave of wind farm development in southwest Alberta in the early 2000s due to distance away from transmission lines. New opportunity will be available when the
Read more →Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Babia Gora biosphere reserve The Suski district is located in southern Poland. In the southern edge of this district lies the Babia Gora National Park, which back in 1977 was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. Furthermore, the Suski district is
Read more →A case of innovation in Global Sustainability Governance. Prevents emission of 400 millon tonnes of CO2 keeping the oil underground in Yasuní biosphere reserve. The Yasuni-ITT Initiative aims to avoid extraction of 20% of the oil reserves of Ecuador which is committed to achieve up to 95% of
Read more →Solar Ice for Fuerteventura biosphere reserve. Fisheries are fishermen associations dedicated to extractive fishing, fish processing and distribution. Energy consumption to maintain the fish cod for storage and distribution is a relevant part of their cost structure. Usually, most of the electrical energy consumed is dedicated to
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