TEDxLoodusele - Leili Mihkelson - The richness of the forests
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Leili Mihkelson is a forest owner from South-West of Estonia. 20 years ago she was given back the land which belonged to her family before the 2nd World War. In the beginning she started with more intensive management due to harsh times but soon she realized other richness that her forests hold. She was told that she is a rich person - and it wa... Read more
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Leili Mihkelson - The richness of the forests
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Leili Mihkelson is a forest owner from South-West of Estonia. 20 years ago she was given back the land which belonged to her family before the 2nd World War. In the beginning she started with more intensive management due to harsh times but soon she realized other richness that her forests hold. ...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Hannes Veinla - How much environmental law solves the problems?
January 30, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Hannes Veinla is from Faculty of Law, University of Tartu, Estonia. We get an insight into the formation of environmental law, from ideal juridical definitions for environmentalists to the real cases with significant value for handling cases today. But does the law solve all the questions raised ...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Keit Pentus - Too expensive, too dear
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Keit Pentus -- Minister of Environment of Estonia. The talk is titled „Too expensive/too dear". She starts with a personal story, recalling how as a child she tried to repair the damage done to the trees near her home, trees that were dear to her. Through this memory, she invites us to consider t...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Gaute Kivistik - Environmental news
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Gaute Kivistik, better known under his pen name of Rohke Debelak (or Debelakk), is an Estonian humorist and journalist, best known as the author and presenter of a satirical news programme on Raadio Kuku (Wikipedia, 2012). This time his news are about environment, fortunately comical but also tou...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Joan Marc Simon - Zero Waste world
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Joan Marc Simon is the coordinator of the Zero Waste network in Europe. He challenges the whole idea of waste and proposes the alternative of a Zero Waste world. Let's redesign the economy to phase-out waste so that all the goods are designed to be repaired, reused, recycled or composted at the e...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Mart Jüssi - From whom comes the competence: from human or from nature?
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Mart Jüssi, Estonian marine mammals expert speaking about us - humans - and the way how we could think about our home and environment and act accordingly. A lot is defined under ecology - terminology from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of". But still - from where comes the competence - fro...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Aleksei Lotman - What is high value farming?
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Aleksei Lotman, Estonian environmentalist working on sustainable agriculture. Main aim is to promote high nature value farming, in other words agriculture that supports biodiversity by maintaining seminatural communities, traditional landscapes and endangered species habitats. Other related field...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Rene Tammist - Let's get fossil energy free!
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Rene Tammist, head of the Estonian Renewable Energy Association, talks about the possibility to switch Estonian energy production from the use of fossil fuels to renewables (the use of oil shale is the main source of Estonia´s environmental pollution, oil shale is even dirtier than coal). About ...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Tõnis Meriste - Challenges to continue with the use of oil shale
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Tõnis Meriste is environmental manager from biggest (energy) company in Estonia -- Eesti Energia (Estonian Energy). Oil shale is used already more than a century and it is often debated whether it is time to stop and switch to other resources or is there still reason to continue to exploit it. Tõ...
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- -: TEDxLoodusele - Kristina Mänd - Addiction to volunteer work
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Kristina Mänd has been in NGO sector from 1990's working in Estonian and international organisations (e.g. CIVICUS). The talk is focusing on her addiction to volunteer work, especially when it comes to nature conservation. We see how dependence forms, how person starts to donate time and skills ...
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