Young Leaders for a better future (4) - Positive Change

Shinaz from the Maldives reserved no efforts to make it to Antarctica. Driven by the importance of involving decision makers on preserving his country from global warming affects, his struggles to fundraise his journey to Antarctica seems very much worth it.  

Shinaz also is a professional photographer and has the artist eye of capturing the best moments in photographs. His ideas of making a positive change touch every field in his country. Now,  he is working on developing a sustainable school considering environment preservation via deploying technology. 

Young Leaders for a better future (3) - It is Possible

Paras is another young achiever whom I met during the Antarctic Expedition. His aggressive hard work helped him to raise funds successfully within limited time to make it to the South Pole. Carrying his own developed system that runs with renewable energy to record climate figures and to tell the world that renewable energy can work anywhere in the world, Paras succeeded and made it work in the most unpredictable weather.

Young Leaders for a better future (2) - Passion Design

Jihong Yeom or Patrick is a PASSION designer. He is a creative and innovative person who reuses the unwanted stuff and recycles them to useful things. His inventions are practical and stimulated from the surrounding materials and incidents.

Speaking with Patrick makes you feel everything is useful and there is nothing to be thrown away without any use. The deep imagination ability he has drives his passion to touch the things with his magical designs and make wonderful results of them.  Not only that, but most of those designs and inventions are simple and easy for everyone to make at home. I think, this makes Patrick’s Passion designs notable and appreciated by people. 

Young Leaders for a better future (1) - Cycle for Water

Michiel and Joost are two young Dutch men who cycled from the Arctic to the Antarctic raising awareness of water importance. Learning and educating, their journey has become remarkable and incredible.  They traveled in 20 months crossing around 30,000 km in their bamboo bicycles proving that “ a lot of challenges can be overcome using sustainable solutions”.  

I was lucky to meet with them in the Antarctic and had listened to their amazing and inspiring story. They are a great example of how people could accomplish great things just by thinking simple, looking around, engaging others and most importantly; walking their talks.

I learnt from Michiel and Joost to follow my passion even if it sound odd, illogical, even if I lack the expertise and the funds, it is all about “ People inspiring each other”. 

Global Warming and Geo-Engineering!

Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of particles into the atmosphere, to deflect sunlight and heat? As an emergency measure to slow a melting ice cap, it could work. Keith discusses why geo-engineering like this is a good idea, why it’s a terrible one — and who, despite the cost, might be tempted to use it. (Recorded September 2007 in New York City. Duration: 16:04.)


 



 Source: http://blog.ted.com/2007/11/13/david_keith/