Hands to Hearts International
Nurturing Children ~ Empowering Women
Hands to Hearts International (HHI), is a nonprofit dedicated to helping the world’s most needy children at their most vulnerable time. HHI combines economic development and empowerment for disadvantaged women with desperately needed health services for orphaned children. See: Hands to Hearts International at http://www.handstohearts.org/home.htm ...learn more
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Created: Nov 16, 2007
Updated: Sep 09, 2009
Membership: Open
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Updated: 5 days ago
Women Need Water Rights, Not Just Technologies
In poor communities, technologies are often touted as panaceas for
poverty. For wom...
Areas: Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Water and Energy, Water and Sustainable Development, Water Law and Policy, Water Quality and Health, Water Rights, Water Supply and Conservation, Watershed Management, Sustainable Urban Environmental Services, Sanitation ...
Type: Website - Author: Masum Momaya
Type: Website - Author: Masum Momaya
Updated: about 1 month ago
Mekong's dams wreak havoc on rural poor
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
CHIANG RAI, Thailand - In a rush to emulate Thailand's model of
building dams in the name of development, countries that share the
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Areas: Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Acid Rain, Ecosystem Services, Coastal Ecology, Marine Ecology and Conservation, Land Restoration, Land Stewardship, Natural Resource Conservation, Restoration Ecology, Electric Power ...
Type: Article - Author: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Type: Article - Author: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Updated: about 1 month ago
Social Media and People Power saving our rivers.
Please watch our first Let it Flow Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHf_XbKQwCI(are ...
Areas: Arts Activism, Environmental Justice, River-Lake Ecology and Biodiversity, Rivers and Creeks, Wetlands, Inland Aquatic Ecosystems, Media and Communication, Video, Water and Sustainable Development, Water Rights ...
Type: Other - Author: Susan Rooney-Harding
Type: Other - Author: Susan Rooney-Harding
Updated: 3 months ago
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Updated: 3 months ago
World Bank supports controversial $80bn project
Plans to link Europe to what would be the world's biggest
hydroelectric dam project in the volatile Democratic Republic of Congo have
sparked fier...
Areas: Dams, Inland Aquatic Ecosystems, Precautionary Principle, Natural Resource Conservation, Protected Areas, Individuals, Objects and Property, Water and Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice, Global Governance ...
Type: Website - Author: Nick Mathiason
Type: Website - Author: Nick Mathiason
Updated: 3 months ago
Plans to build more than 200 hydroelectric dams bring
prospect of cheap electricity but destruction of Amazon habitats
Activists say government plans for up to 16 new
hydroelectric plants pose ...
Areas: Dams, Inland Aquatic Ecosystems, Restoration Ecology, Precautionary Principle, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Natural Heritage Conservation, Local Food Systems, Distributive and Economic Justice
Type: Website - Author: Tom Phillips
Type: Website - Author: Tom Phillips
Updated: 3 months ago
Water is life! - a Model for Renaturation of Dry Regions
In southern Portugal, a pilot model shows how the desertification of the Mediterranean and other threatened places in the world can be stop...
Areas: Permaculture, Organic Farming, Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Biocultural Diversity, Seed Conservation, Youth Participation, Communication Training, Community Resources, Community Training, Land Restoration ...
Type: Website - Author: Leila Dregger
Type: Website - Author: Leila Dregger
Updated: 3 months ago
The project may help to cut down on the need to clear forestsBy James PainterAug. 18, 2009BBC News, Trinidad, BoliviaPoor farmers in the heart of Bolivia's Amazon are being encouraged to embrace th...
Areas: Riparian Ecology and Conservation, Rivers and Creeks, Wetlands, Soil Conservation and Management, Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Inland Aquatic Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services
Type: Website - Author: James Painter
Type: Website - Author: James Painter
Updated: 3 months ago
Sierra Permaculture Design
Permaculture design, consulting & project management for homes, farms, ranches, retreats and public facilities.
Permaculture provides positive, sustainable solutions ...
Areas: Permaculture, Agroecology, Organic Farming, Rural Farming Communities, Ecosystem Services, Land Restoration, Culture and Sustainability, Sustainability Education, Energy Flow in Ecosystems, Energy Efficiency and Conservation ...
Type: Website - Author: Paul Racko
Type: Website - Author: Paul Racko
Updated: 4 months ago
Implementing a Community-Based Watershed Approach
Available Information
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Areas: Watershed Management, Water Law and Policy, Water and Sustainable Development, Water Supply and Conservation, Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Water Quality and Health, Water Pollution, Inland Aquatic Ecosystems, Sustainable Urban Environmental Services
Type: Video - Author: US Environmental Protection Agency
Type: Video - Author: US Environmental Protection Agency