Global Warming Communication It's Getting Hot in Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement ...an online weblog (blog) project supporting a global movement of youth researching and reporting on global warming and its effects in their countries, communities, and individual lives... Quantum Shift TV ...a web-based effort intended to renew the cultural values of community, care, and interconnectedness through the use of technology and citizen journalism. For example, "SOIL: The Secret Solution to Global Warming", was uploaded to the website by a Canadian farmer, who makes the case that shifting existing subsidies to sustainable farming practices could offset greenhouse emissions 10% to 20%... Campus Climate Challenge ...working - through interpersonal communication, community organising, and online interactivity - to grow a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by reducing the pollution from high schools and colleges down to zero...
Rural Tech Transfer - Impact Coastal Resources Management Project (CRMP) ...local leaders participated in a television series addressing agriculture technology transfer. The actors traveled around the country and continued to serve as coastal resource management advocates, and the series was used as a training and education tool... Information and Communication Technology in Rural Development ...includes case studies of various applications of ICT that have made a difference in the delivery of services or products in rural areas in India. IT-based machines at milk collection centres are being used in cooperatives to measure butterfat content of milk, test the quality of milk, and make prompt payments to farmers. "This has resulted in the removal of incentives to cut the milk by adding water, reduced time for payments from 10 days to less than five minutes, and has thus instilled confidence in farmers"...
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