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Saving the Planet TV series trailer
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Can ordinary people help save our planet under siege from environmental crises? What does it take to change attitudes and lifestyles to consume and waste less? In this Asian series, we profile six successful initiatives that combine knowledge, skills and passion to create cleaner and healthier environment through local action. The stories were identified from a regional competition in 2007, and produced in partnership with Asia Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) Read more…
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Saving the Planet: Smile Again!
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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A programme that links schools with their local community helps Thai children learn about Nature through exposure and experience. Read more…
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Saving the Planet: Rising from the Ashes
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Displaced from traditional homelands by a natural calamity, an indigenous group is preserving their culture through theater. Read more…
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Saving the Planet: Voice of a Valley
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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By inspiring discussion and debate, a community radio station helps Nepali communities to find the best solutions or compromises. Read more…
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Saving the Planet: It's alive!
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 by tveapfilms with 1 comments
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A small group is trying to transform learning in Laos by introducing play-and-learn activities in schools. Read more…
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Saving the Planet: Living the Change
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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For people in Dindigul in India's Tamil Nadu state, waste isn't really a problem - it's just a resource in the wrong place. Read more…
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Saving the Planet: Floating the Future
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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People living on and around Tonlé Sap lake, the largest in Cambodia, discover how to harvest fish and other sources within limits. Read more…
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Small Islands, Big Impact
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives, sees climate change as both a human rights issue and a security threat. On the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, he makes an earnest appeal for the world to defend the frontline states, such as his. Read more…
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South Asia: Crowded Land, Drying Rivers
Posted: Oct 14, 2009 by tveapfilms with 1 comments
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This film captures the highlights of a 2008 study, Vulnerability Assessment of Freshwater Resources to Environmental Change, carried out by researchers at the Asian Institute Technology (AIT) for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Read more…
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Return of the Ozone Layer: Are We There Yet?
Posted: Oct 14, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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This video produced by TVE Asia Pacific for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of UNEP's work programme under the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol. Read more…
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Truth Talking: Voices from the Waves
Posted: Oct 12, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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This programme sees complex survival issues through the eyes of two teenagers -- Dilagi, a Fijian girl, and Bernard, a boy from Kiribati. Their plea: relocation is not a viable option, and our way of life is not negotiable. Read more…
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Yellow River Blues
Posted: Sep 30, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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This film captures the highlights of a 2008 study, Vulnerability Assessment of Freshwater Resources to Environmental Change, carried out by researchers in China and Mongolia for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Read more…
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Mekong: Watch that river!
Posted: Sep 30, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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This film captures the highlights of a 2008 study, Vulnerability Assessment of Freshwater Resources to Environmental Change, carried out by researchers at the Asian Institute Technology (AIT) for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Surround Sand
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Sand dunes can protect coastal villages from cyclones and wave action. In two Indian states, efforts are underway to strengthen sand dunes as a means of natural protection for vulnerable communities. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Trees of Life
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Returning 18 months later to the first point on Sri Lanka the Asian Tsunami hit, we find local people busy building a coastal greenbelt. The area is also being re-greened through home gardens and organic farming. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Live and Let Live
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Protecting mangroves need not always mean banning local people from deriving benefits. Different approaches to community-mangrove co-existence have been adopted in two locations in India. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Mangroves Are Forever
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Shrimp farming damaged and degraded mangroves around the Kalpitiya lagoon. After the industry collapsed, the community joined hands with a conservation group to restore the mangroves, some of which is harvested. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Reef Relief
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Human and natural factors exert many pressures on coral reefs. A group of young divers is regenerating one damaged reef, giving nature a helping hand. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Love Thy Mangrove
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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The indigenous Moken people -- or sea gypsies - have always looked after mangroves on the Pra Thong island in southern Thailand. We find out how they are working to restore and protect the island's mangroves after the tsunami. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Claudio's Century
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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An Italian scientist was studying a pristine mangrove forest, but the Asian Tsunami damaged it heavily. He is now working on restoring the ecosystem - a process that could take a century. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: People Power
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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The mangroves and wetlands of Tuntaset were ruined by charcoal industry and shrimp farming. Invoking an old law that allowed communities to manage their mangroves, the local people restored the mangroves. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Saved by Sand
Posted: Sep 02, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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While surrounding villages were devastated by the Tsunami, Paanama suffered only minor damage thanks to sand dunes on one side and thick mangroves on the other. This inspired villagers to undertake restoration and conservation activity. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Nurturing Nature
Posted: Aug 11, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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For decades, the people of Jaring Halus managed their own mangrove forest using traditional methods. Now the government has asked them to co-manage mangroves in a nearby wildlife sanctuary -- a first for Indonesia. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: Greenbelts and Lifebelts
Posted: Aug 10, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Advised by scientists, coastal communities are restoring or replanting mangrove forests as a 'bio-shield' against natural disasters and sea level rise. Read more…
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The Greenbelt Reports: After the Tiger
Posted: Aug 10, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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The people restored their mangroves damaged by excessive shrimp farming. Now they harvest multiple benefits: improved fish and crab catches, plant products, and natural protection from storms and waves. Read more…
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I am... A child of the sea
Posted: Mar 03, 2009 by tveapfilms with 0 comments
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Lakshani, 9, has lived by the sea all her life. When she was six, the Asian Tsunami of December 2004 destroyed their beachfront house in Koralawella, Moratuwa, on Sri Lanka's western coast. More than three years later, her family is still struggling to raise their heads. Lakshani takes us through a typical day, and shares her wishes for a cleaner beach and better neighbourhood. No longer afraid of the waves, she is back being a child of the sea. Read more…
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