Thousands of duvet covers and pillows, tons of cutlery of all kind, kitchen utensiles, toasters, cosmetics, clothes and even Stereos are all clumped together in Chancellor’s court in the University of Edinburgh. Those students really must like trash –...
From June 20th to 22nd, the UNCSD-Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is coming up. This United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development is the follow-up event to the “Earth Summit” that took place in Rio twenty years ago...
Together Against Plastic Bottles is a non-profit organization based out of North Vancouver, Canada with the goal of eliminating plastic bottles from their school and local community. Tap Bottles was founded by a small group of youth from my...
It was only two months ago, that I submitted my one minute application video for the so-called Zeitgeist Young Minds Program of Google. Back then I applied because I thought it was a cool thing and because I was...
The German Young Explorers have founded an association to keep on working on environmental and social projects more professionally. In the past we’ve experienced that it is sometimes difficult, complicated and even impossible to work on a project or...
The inter-cultural work in the youth Red Cross is highly inspiring. For four years I’ve been doing voluntary work and hope to continue for an other few years. From the 18th until the 22nd of April I was...
For me personally the image of business and the economic view on the world has always been quite negative. The first thoughts that would pop up in my mind would be “They only care about money, have no...
It was a breathless day in sunny Durban on December 7th 2011 when I joined the 17th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 7th Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto...
As a Young Explorer and a future Marine biologist, I am always keen to participate in any sort of events where you can share your love for the oceans and marine life and learn something more about it....
Since Lauren Morrell (Himalaya Selection Camp) was in Borneo on the Pangaea, she had a dream to start the first Pangaea project in the USA, the Explore To Restore Project. It aims to improve the water quality of the Severn River...