How many great plans start out as ideas sketched in graphite? Globally, we get through 14 billion pencils each year. Now, Kenyan entrepreneurs are producing eco-friendly pencils from recycled newspaper.

Europe throws away 88 million tons of food each year, while globally 800 million people face malnutrition. Now, a Berlin restaurant is dishing up tasty meals from produce headed for the trash.

Abuja’s Change the Dirt radio campaign encourages listeners to go green and think responsibly about waste, through drama and skits with an eco-friendly message.

On Senegal's coast, the ocean is both savior and destroyer. Many are dependent on fishing to survive but encroaching water is forcing people to flee. Now, Senegalese are trying to turn back the tide.

In many African countries people rely on dirty generators for power. Berlin start-up SunZilla offers an alterantive with its solar kits that can supply and store electricity for up to seven people.

WeAreM.A.D. (Making A Difference), doesn’t just clear dumpsites and tackle environmental sanitation. It also fights unemployment and gender inequality by helping women start their own businesses.

Off the coast of Tanzania, fishermen use homemade bombs to catch fish. Those who try to stop them do so at great peril. Experts say one blast can kill all living organisms within a 20-meters radius. Coral reefs that teamed with life are reduced to rubble.

Uganda’s Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Lake Victoria is a safe haven for orphaned chimpanzees that also fights hunting, educates the public and offers ecotourism.

Residents of Feldheim, a village south of Berlin, decided to go off grid and produce their own energy for wind, sun and biogas. Their solution is now a role model for communities around the world.

Benin vet Michel Babadjide’s sustainable animal husbandry ensures food security for local farmers. It’s finally being taken seriously by science and catching on in villages around the country.