The Right to Clean Water Charter Amendment The Right to Clean Water Charter Amendmen: your water, your charter, your home. If you are opting for mail-in voting, then this is already heading towards your home, even as this is being typed. For the residents of Orange County Florida, there will appear three charter amendments on… Continue reading The Right to Clean Water Charter Amendment
Permaculture: Closing the Loop Permaculture: Closing the Loop. It’s probably safe to say that most of us live similar lives in a lot of ways: we go to the grocery store to purchase stacks of packaged foods; we water our lawns; we drop cardboard boxes and bags of leaves on the pavement for the trash… Continue reading Permaculture: Closing the Loop
When most people think pest control, “eco-friendly” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. More often than not, pesticides fall into the class of anthropogenic pollution, human negligence of the fragile ecological systems that preserve our world and the environment. But what if a company took a more forward-thinking, problem-solving approach to lawn care… Continue reading Can Pest Prevention Be Sustainable?
Many of us wouldn’t associate stormwater with pollution. Quite the opposite: When it rains, we picture the Earth’s soil nourished, depleted lakes and ponds replenished. But what we do on land—how we care for and maintain it—ultimately affects our waters. Felling trees, dumping waste, saturating crops with pesticides are but a few ways urban development… Continue reading Water Pollution: caused by… yard-care?
Worldwide fish consumption per capita is higher than it has ever been. With such increasing demand, particularly amongst the developed world, overfishing has become a serious issue. One-third of the world’s oceans can be classified as overfished, which disproportionately affects developing nations. It is estimated that, in the near future, many African countries will have… Continue reading Overfishing in Uganda
IDEAS For Us – Branches Nepal About This Branch IDEAS For Us – Nepal was founded in 2016 after Tika Ram “Santosh” Poudel became the third IREX Fellow to IDEAS For Us and traveled to Orlando, Florida for a four-month immersion program from August to December of 2015. The United States Department of State specially… Continue reading Nepal
IDEAS For Us – Branches University of Central Florida About This Branch IDEAS For UCF is an integral part of IDEAS For Us serving on the largest college campus in the nation. Our branch is a registered club of UCF that seeks to make our campus sustainable as we educate, engage, and empower our students… Continue reading UCF
Environmental Solutions Project Archive IDEAS for Us has spread to communities around the world, engaging communities and sharing best practices for a better world. View our Environmental Solutions Project Archive. Changing The World Through Local Action IDEAS For Us (IDEAS) is active in both developed and developing nations. Every project and program we launch shares the… Continue reading Environmental Solutions Archive
