Besides being a singer, Stanley Aneto is also creative in other ways without harming the environment and paints with different-colored lights. Through his art and music, he reminds us of the need to care for nature.

Yacouba Sawadogo started planting trees in northern Burkina Faso in 1980 to stop desertification. Now at 80 he has won the Right Livelihood award and looks back to see the fruits of his labor.

A group of volunteers from Germany has gone to southern Mozambique to help rejuvenate the Banhine National Park by rebuilding the tourism industry and — very importantly — by gaining the acceptance of the locals.

With a small machine powered by solar energy, the start-up RenewDrive has helped small scale farmers reduce agricultural waste across Nigeria.

After a government ban on the use of incandescent light bulbs, a local company produces LED bulbs that use 80% less energy and last six times as long.

From charging mobile phones to supplying energy for factories, one new company is exploring the potential of solar energy in Kenya and throughout East Africa.

Tamimu Kifungu is a young innovator who wants to solve Tanzania's energy problem with renewables. He is part of a group of self-taught engineers that are designing windmills to generate electricity and pump water.

The Cape Verde islands are looking to wind and solar power to bring down their high energy bills, while at the same time doing something positive for the environment. A public-private partnership is helping make this a reality.

After discovering that elephants fear bee stings, rangers decided to use this to help stop the animals destroying the park's precious marula trees.

Since starting his initiative in 2012 with only $2, Sam Dindi has worked with over 10,000 people across the country. So far they have transformed Nairobi's polluted river into a beautiful green park.