World Challenge 2009 - Episode 1

"World Challenge" is an annual competition by BBC World and Newsweek to showcase sustainable businesses and projects from around the world. This series features the finalists of World Challenge 2009 - examples that entrepreneurial spirit can go hand-in-hand with environmental and social responsibility. www.theworldchallenge.co.uk

• A bright Idea (Sri Lanka): One man's mission to stop the horrific, and totally avoidable, injuries caused by unsafe kerosene lamps in Sri Lanka. A surgeon who witnessed the terrible results of these accidents designed a safe Lamp that can't roll over and cause a fire.

• Emission Control (UK): Our global addiction to meat is now influencing the climate, yet in Wales a new feed technology could help lead to a more sustainable meat industry.

• Off Grid Aid (Palestine): The contrast in income and lifestyles between the Israeli and Palestinian communities of the West Bank is stark. Now two enterprising Israeli scientists are reaching out to bridge the gap, by providing electricity to Palestinians settlements, one village at a time.

Duration: 24 mins
Year of production: 2009
Countries filmed in: Israel, Palestine, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom

World Challenge 2009 - Episode 2

"World Challenge" is an annual competition by BBC World and Newsweek to showcase sustainable businesses and projects from around the world. This series features the finalists of World Challenge 2009 - examples that entrepreneurial spirit can go hand-in-hand with environmental and social responsibility. www.theworldchallenge.co.uk

• Fungi Town (United States): Two graduates are bucking the hard times in California by building a business based on waste. They created a mushroom farm is an empty warehouse in a depressed part of San Francisco.

• Old School Thai (Thailand): The North Andaman region of Thailand is attracting a new kind of tourist keen to experience the culture before package tourism...and just as keen to leave it that way.

• Afghan Hands (Afghanistan): Recent images of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan are unlikely to have shown women poring over fashion magazines and stitching embroidery on panels for high fashion blouses.

Duration: 24 mins
Year of production: 2009
Countries filmed in: Afghanistan, Thailand, United States of America

World Challenge 2009 - Episode 3

"World Challenge" is an annual competition by BBC World and Newsweek to showcase sustainable businesses and projects from around the world. This series features the finalists of World Challenge 2009 - examples that entrepreneurial spirit can go hand-in-hand with environmental and social responsibility. www.theworldchallenge.co.uk

• No Beating about the Bush (Namibia): In Namibia where a fifth of the worlds Cheetahs live, Thorn bushes are taking over, suffocating the open plains that these fleet footed cats need to gather speed to hunt. The Cheetah Conservation Fund has a possible answer.

• Love-n-Haiti (Haiti): Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, and its capital city is one of the most dangerous in the world. In the absence of law and order, a recycling project is helping turn this community around.

• Solar Sisters (India): In Rajasthan, high-tech circuits for solar electricity systems are being made by village women, most of whom have barely had an education.

Duration: 24 mins
Year of production: 2009
Countries filmed in: Haiti, India, Namibia

World Challenge 2009 - Episode 4

"World Challenge" is an annual competition by BBC World and Newsweek to showcase sustainable businesses and projects from around the world. This series features the finalists of World Challenge 2009 - examples that entrepreneurial spirit can go hand-in-hand with environmental and social responsibility. www.theworldchallenge.co.uk

• Nothing Wasted (Indonesia): In a market in Bantul in Java, tonnes of waste produced everyday are being turned into high-grade fertilizer.

• Fuel Cell (Kenya): Skylink Innovators is a Kenyan company with big ambitions to stop the resource going to waste and saving, in the bargain, Kenya's remaining woodland.

• Jiko Rescue (Democratic Republic of Congo): The endangered Mountain Gorilla population is getting a helping hand from a fuel-efficient 'Jiko' stove.

Duration: 24 mins
Year of production: 2009
Countries filmed in: Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Kenya

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