Stories about Nomad Green

Nomad Green: Air Pollution In Winter In Mongolia

  26 March 2010

Mongolians are having a tough winter this year and the air pollution from the heating stoves and coal burnings in factories is causing more problems. The citizen journalists from Nomad Green project are highlighting the degradation of environment in Mongolia.

Nomad Green: Mongolia – A Disaster In The Making

  13 February 2010

Mongolia is witnessing the fiercest winter in living memory and adding to the misery decreasing foodstock may leave approximately 20 million farm animals frozen to death before Spring. Livestock being the main source of economy of the country, this points to a larger catastrophe. The citizen journalists of Nomad Green project provides some background of the disaster.

Featured Blogger: Shinetsetseg (Shinee) Sukhbaatar

  29 January 2010

Shinetsetseg (Shinee) Sukhbaatar has always been concerned about the preservation of the environment in her native Mongolia. When she joined the Nomad Green project, it gave her an outlet to raise awareness about the environmental issues facing her country. This begins a series of interviews with new bloggers from the Rising Voices community of projects.

Nomad Green: Mongolian Environmental News, Reported By You

  28 November 2009

The cyber environmentalists from Mongolia, participants of the Nomad Green project has been on the job, sharing more and more revealing posts about the impact of the country's environmental deterioration. And they invited more people to the party as the Rising Voices grantee concluded five more workshops recently.

Nomad Green: Environmental Activism

  27 September 2009

A number of workshops were held by the Rising Voices grantee Nomad Green in September 2009. Thanks to the passionate translators like Azaa, Ariungerel, Tungaa, and Odnoo, many articles have already been translated from Mongolian into English and was featured in the Nomad Green site.

Nomad Green: More Workshops In Ulaanbaatar

  18 August 2009

On July 28-31, 2009 the Rising Voices grantee Nomad Green arranged another series of workshops in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. The topics of these workshops were pollution in 'Tuul River', the mother river that provide water usage to about 60% of Mongolian population and 'waste management'. The participants also learned about working with Twitter and Wordpress.

Nomad Green: The First Workshops

  2 June 2009

The first four workshops of the Rising Voices grantee Nomad Green were completed last month. About 60 participants were introduced to citizen media tools like blog, flickr, picasa, Youtube etc. using which they will be discussing the environmental or public health issues in Mongolia.

Nomad Green: Creating Environmental Awareness Using Citizen Media

  21 April 2009

The Rising Voices grantee 'Nomad Green', in collaboration with the Mongolian and Tibetan Foundation and the Mongolian Green Party, will train Mongolian citizens how to use citizen media. They idea is that they will write about their country concentrating on the environmental crisis and create awareness. The participants will create a network and community of environmentalists sharing and spreading information about related threats, solutions, and opportunities.

New Citizen Media Projects Foster Rising Voices in Ivory Coast, Liberia, China, Mongolia, and Yemen

  9 March 2009

Of the 270 project proposals we received from activists, bloggers, and NGO's all wanting to use citizen media tools to bring new communities - long ignored by both traditional and new media - to the conversational web, the following five are most representative of the innovation, purpose and goodwill that Rising Voices aims to support. Please join me in welcoming our new Rising Voices grantees.