Solution I: Neem – pesticide Neem seeds soaked in water for 24 hrs to facilitate the removal of seeds. Dried seeds were decorticated and crushed into fine powders and then put in spraying device and use it to spray the plant and the product without fear of any damages. Solution II Hot paper pesticide( Chilli) Mixing kilograms and a half of red chilli «pepper powder, cayenne» with 15 or 20 liters of water, left it for 4 hours For fermentation, knowing that it must not exceed these … Read more
Solutions
- Lifelong Education
- Diversity & Cohesion
- Trust & Communication
- Health & Healing
- Leadership & Governance
- Conflict Resolution
- Wisdom & Innovation
- Art & Celebration
- Vision & Purpose
- Nature Connection
- Mindfulness & Self Reflection
- Defend & Protect
- Leading from the Future
- Contextualised Design
- Whole Systems Thinking
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Intervention & Transformation
- Alliance Building
- Prototyping & Feedback
- Rank & Privilege
Solar Energy Disseminating solar energy in far west villages in DRC. (Luc/GENDRC)
Create a partnership network for solar kits, ensure supply. Ensure that transport is possible, if not also create partnerships for transport in this direction. Identify the beneficiary villages. Identify people to train, for stability, women. Train women leaders per village. Create microcredits around the solar project to support sustainability. Install kits with persons empowered. … Read more
Resilient School Communities Inclusive and participatory planning and implementation of resilient school community plans
School communities (learners, teachers and parents) use the Integrated Land Use Design (ILUD) tool to improve land use and environmental consciousness and practice at their schools. The core principles of ILUD are: Promoting deep and thoughtful care for the environment Emphasis on identification and use of local and indigenous resources and knowledge Inclusive and active participation of the school community Genuine and wide participation of young people at all levels of our … Read more
Regenerative Organic Agriculture The answer is under our feet
Regenerative organic agriculture remove the carbon from the atmosphere and oceans by sequestering it into the soil. It creates humus, made up of the stable, long-lasting remnants of decaying organic material, which expands the soil’s water-holding capacity and improves the fertility of the soil and our ability to grow nutrient-rich crops. … Read more
Vermicomposting Worm composting
Worm composting (also called Vermicomposting) is a method for recycling food waste into a rich, dark, earth-smelling soil conditioner. The great advantage of worm composting is that this can be done indoors and outdoors, thus allowing year round composting. It also provides apartment dwellers with a means of composting. In a nutshell, worm compost is made in a container filled with moistened bedding and redworms. Add your food waste for a period of time, and the worms and micro-organisms will … Read more
Intercropping Mixing it up with your crops
Intercropping offers farmers the opportunity to engage nature's principle of diversity on their farms and have the following advantages: Benefits of intercropping are crop yield, productivity of various plant constituents, economic return, yield stability, social benefits, pest control, and nutrient use efficiency. Furthermore, because of some favorable exudates from the component legumes, greater land-use efficiency, greater yield stability and increased competitive ability towards weed, … Read more
Hugelkultur
Hügelkultur is making raised garden beds made of and covered with organic material for cropping. It has several advantages: The first few years, the composting process will slightly warm your soil giving you a slightly longer growing season. The organic material will also shrinks inside the garden beds, making more tiny air so there is no need for tilling. As the years pass, the organic material keeps nutrient excess from passing into the ground water and refeeds that to the garden plants later: … Read more
Freinet pedagogy Improving education
Freinet pedagogy, while contributing actively for socialization and solidarity thanks to its cooperative organization allows the child to get in contact with the reality of the world in the 21e century using different tools such as the free text, the correspondence, the printing, the school magazine, the scientific reports, the audiovisual tools as well as the critical use of the new communicative and production technologies . It is a method which assures the liberation of the whole creative … Read more
Earthship Biotecture Building radically sustainable buildings
Earthship use solar power and carbon-zero technology and are made of natural and recycled materials. It integrates all elements with food production to assure a minimal reliance on public utilities and fossil fuels. It can be modified for almost any climate and comes in many sizes. It can also come in custom sizes. It has been built enough times that it has become a well oiled machine both in terms of performance and production. Biotecture, based in Taos, New Mexico commercialize it. It costs … Read more
No Till Gardening Avoiding soil degradation
The benefits of no-till gardening are therefore numerous: it promotes natural aeration and drainage, it saves water, reduces or eliminates the need to weed, it saves time and energy, it builds earthworm population and helps to reduce the soil erosion and to retain carbon. No-till gardening requires some experimenting to find the right techniques for each growing region but oneself can find a good documentation about how to apply principles of no-till gardening (Preparing the bed before adopting … Read more
