Your life on earth
Explore BBC Earth’s unique interactive, personalised just to you. Find out how, since the date of your birth, your life has progressed; including how many times your heart has beaten, and how far you have travelled through space. Investigate how the world around...Help to fund a Solar School
Solar Schools is a project that helps schools crowdfund the cost of solar panels from community – cutting carbon, boosting budgets and bringing people together around clean energy. Find out more and get involved at...Read more“Energy is the thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity and sustainability. But, widespread energy poverty still condemns billions to darkness, ill health and missed opportunities for education and prosperity.”
– Ban Ki-moon
2014 is the International Year of Family Farming
Have you ever wondered who produces the food that reaches your table? 8 out of 10 people who produce food in Latin America and the Caribbean are family farmers. Family Farming is a way of classifying agricultural, forestry, fishing, pastoral and aquaculture...Where is home?
More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer — who himself has three or four “origins” — meditates on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing...Speaking out, the start of cultural change
This short film named Komal is being released in 12 Indian languages. The videos will also be released in “Accessible” versions to ensure that speech, hearing, or vision impaired children are also able to watch this film and learn. Please spread this message and let...Read more“The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world”
– Norman Borlaug
