From my shallow knowledge when I was a student I though humans invented but I didn’t know much. With time I started to understand and to know that there are more and more and much more left for future generations to do. Our collective knowledge are not only growing but are constantly changed, replaced and renewed. 

We invaded much of the earth’s surface but still much left and we started to invade the sea but even much more interesting is to move from its surface to the bottom.

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An important aspect of how Africa would deal with future challenges to bring about successful implementation of sustainable urbanization policies is the use of energy-saving technologies for cement production. Currently, the major African reserves of its limited coal reserves exist in South Africa and mostly exported to the global market (http://www.eia.gov/beta/international/analysis.cfm?iso=ZAF). This with the relatively very limited access to coal and the risk for increasing future coal prices in the world (http://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Why-Coal-Prices-Will-Soar-In-The-Coming-Years.html) make is necessary to invest in alternative cement production processes,  where huge energy-saving can be based on physical rather than thermal activation.

The rise and potential peak of cement are interesting issues to discuss as they are related to many factors of relevance to achieving sustainable socio-economic developments, e.g. increasing population, an accelerating dynamic urbanization, water-energy nexus, renewables, global warming, waste and pollution as well as needs for effective and optimized cement production in terms of energy, waste and labor.
The majority of the 2.5 billion new urban inhabitants projected to be in Africa and Asia in the period to 2050. This will, for many reasons, strongly influence the global future of cement demand and use, efficiency of the production process, types of fuels and materials used as well as access to building materials and related natural resources. With the global cement production to continue rising in coming years, many real questions arise: how fast will the industry develop and how will its appetite for coal and other fuels change; also the response to new technologies. Cement industry, currently, uses around 5% of the coal produced globally every year and coal remains to be the largest single component in the overall fuel mix used by the cement industry. As thermal energy represents 30–40% of overall costs for the cement industry, this has gradually led to a search for lower-cost fuels with the rise of the use of alternative fuels or alternative energy-efficient production processes. The drivers for use of any alternative fuel or process are demands of reduced CO2 emissions, the impact of landfill taxes and bans, and price of alternative fuels relative to conventional fuels, automation for labor-saving and effective production, also the needs to use other raw materials and waste products by cement industries.

Despite the desire of some to move away from coal, cement facilities using alternative fuels/processes, and non-coal fossil fuels remain a minority and in some regions, the trend for fuel choice is currently toward coal. However, the percentage of clinker in the final cement product has been reduced over the past two decades from 83% in 1990 to around 75% in 2012. This means that 25% of the cement is a non-clinker mineral and thus not as energy-intensive. Among the process-based solution for energ-saving is changing thermal by physical activation for cement production.

PEAK CEMENT. Cement demand will only increase for an individual country up to a certain level of urbanization to enter a “repair and maintain” stage. In developed countries this trend is reinforced by low population growth rates. As each economy achieves the “repair and maintain” level of development, demand for cement will be reduced in an increasing number of countries, causing growth in global cement demand to fall. This has already taken place in EU, U.S. and Japan. After this point, it is conceivable that global cement demand, and by extension the amount of coal it requires, will peak. However, whether or not this could occur by 2050 remains to be seen. What is certain, however, is that whatever happens to the cement industry over the next 35 years, coal will play a very important role as the primary fuel source that is if, and only if, the market-technology will still depend on traditional processes for production, i.e. “business-as-usual”.

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Germany is among the largest agricultural producers in the European Union with more of its half used for farming and is located in the rural areas. German farms constitute a distinctive feature of landscape and the farmers are considered to be an integral and important part of life in rural areas. There is hardly any other economic sector in which tradition and progress are so closely linked. This is why rural areas are considered to be important as urban areas, and all efforts are made to develop them equally. The implication is that, unlike in some other European countries, where rural areas are known for being backward when compared to urban areas, in Germany, the trend is changing. Due to the country’s policy of equal living, this is not the case in Germany as rural areas, are usually referred to as “Village Renewals”.
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But what are the problems of the country-side and rural areas how these problems were originated and what are the possible solutions. Cycles of ups and downs in many worldwide socio-economic developments do show us the existing challenges to find integrative approaches for to couple rural-urban areas: http://youtu.be/HcKdy4W67rs

In many places around the world there are many successful examples of rural-urban integrative approaches. Such approaches provide local and regional populations with diverse socio-economic benefits. 

Examples are given here on the required sustainable management approaches for improving ecosystem services, enhancing ecological processes and multifunctionality on landscape level and thereby achieving large-scale and long-term sustainable socio-economic developments. These examples can service as models that can be used for transforming vast rural-urban regions, e.g. in Africa, that so far suffer from severe segregation with enormous threats for failing future urbanization.

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E-marketing and E-Markets are becoming very popular, even fish can be bought free on the Internet. Have a good meal!

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Art doesn’t come out of nowhere, Africa has a culture that can both be translated to art (http://m.123rf.com/photo-18733444_african-women-isolated-over-white-background.html) and implemented in engineering and technology. Follow sustain-earth.com to inform and get informed. 

 Nelson Mandela contributed in raising the global public awareness about the African cultural heritage and now Africa’s art is taking it towards more sustainable future.

Follow us at (http://sustain-earth.com) to share Mandela’s vision about a new Africa. http://www.fineartportfolio.co.za/south-african-artwork/jen-adam-african-art-young-family-ja-263a

Computer Aided Art “CAA” (http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=computer-human-art) developed and expanded very rapidly and have helped Computer Aided Design “CAD” (https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design) to strictly construct and develop products that are far beyond our imagination with 3D geometries, constructions and printing ranging from nano-scale organs and electronic lab-on-chips to architecture buildings and landscape smart cities.

A wide-range of social-media illustrate the magificant development of human imagination that both Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin never dreamed it can possible. Welcome to the modern era of further coupling of art with architecture.

Swahili Fasion Week, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (http://www.swahilifashionweek.com) will be held during 4th-6th December 2015. It is the biggest and largest annual fashion event in the whole of East and Central Africa providing platform for fashion and accessory designers from Swahili speaking countries and beyond. The event aimed at emphasizing to the region that fashion is an income generating creative industry, meanwhile promoting a “Made in Africa” concept. This platform was founded and created by celebrated Pan African couturier from Tanzania, Mustafa Hassanali in year 2008. 2015 will mark the Eighth Edition of the annual Event.

Participate in this international festival and associated exiting activities.

Seeking education to give wings to your dreams is not an easy task, although imperative. Most often, if not always, coaching and support are needed along the way. Here is an example of a young girl from India who succeeded already in here early days to overcome many traditional barriers and difficulties. From where did she get all the motivation in the most hostile, poor and less privileged rural regions in the heart of India, is indeed an interesting story, worth knowing the start, its path routes and somewhat the end.

Give Wings To Your Dream – By Shibani, Wise We, tells the story of this girl (http://wisewe.com/give-wings-to-your-dream-by-shibani/). India is one of the nations that realized the potential of education for the transformation of the country. It has already stepped in the 21st century where modernization, globalization and urbanization are at the peak. Certainly, India has crossed many diificulties to reach where it is today but many are yet to be shorted out. Among them eradicating poverty and unemployment, however illiteracy is supreme.

The world was surprised with the fast and considerable damage of the recent tsunami-earthquakes that took place in past decade or so in Asia, e.g. In Thailand and Japan, more at (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_earthquake). Such events trigger tsunami actions with very much magitudes of larger than the normal earthquakes. 

All of us are overwhelmed by the enormous power of socialmedia what regards the speed and magnitude by which knowledge is transferred and disseminated. However, it remains to go in depth both vertically and horizontally to understand the ongoing transformation that is taking place globally as a consequence of two new and imperative strategic changes “ICT” and sustainability.

Why socialmedia is revotionalizing the world and gaining more and more attention among the world population especially the younger ones? how can it be used to maximize its benefits on individual and collective levels? what are the modern threats associated with overconsumption or random use of socialmedia? how can we improve the quality of knowledge that keeps generated by socialmedia and what are the impacts of socialmedia and ICT-technology on traditional education at all levels? how can copywrite protection be improved with the accelerating production on the web? how can search engines do better jobs on the web? how can false materials, hate and bullying be controlled and balanced with the freedom of speech and democracy? 
Future generation especially in the developing countries will be struggling to balance the old and traditional values with the progressive and new changes.

In a world with increasing over-population food production requires (mainly) either hardworking man-power “hand-made” or well-coordinated automation “processed food” both of these can have advantages and disadvantages. In any case the wheel of production to provide fairly high-quality food would not go any faster especially with shrinking economy, declining natural resources and increasing competition on whatever is left as well as the pile-up of our common pollution and waste remains.

What is the solution? 

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Socialmedia is moving deep in many African contexts with similar trends as those that changed Europe and the U.S. in the sixties (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s): the Vietnam War; the Beatles, music changes  in the United States and around the world; John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963; Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream”; China’s Mao Zedong puts the Great Leap Forward plan; a human being sets foot on the Moon. At least, let us hope for a new modern future to revert Africa to more sustainable continent to save its natural beauty and biodiversity as well as to bring welfare for its people.

Follow Socialmedia network and stay tuned (http://artradarjournal.com/2015/02/27/african-photography-via-instagram-4-accounts-to-follow/ Also, the Instagram @afurakah “Afu-Ra-Kah” is one of the origin names of the motherland. All humans come from Africa. 

Get updated by the most modern approaches for achieving sustainability. Socialmedia can be a tool, visit and learn more at:

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Connecting people is an essential part for achieving sustainable socio-economic developments anywhere around the world. Understanding life style and cultural heritage is crucial for overcoming the socio-economic barriers hindering friction in the society and has enormous positive impacts on safety, security and stability.

Afurakah “Afu-Ra-Kah” is one of the origin names of the motherland. All humans come from Africa. @afurakah is an Instagram site for art, music, fashion, food, sports and tech. “sustain-earth.com” find it relevant for promoting the implemetation of Applied Sustainability in Africa.

Sustain-earth.com discusses and debates how to bring about successful social-economic developments around the world with focus on protecting and preserving our common natural resources on planet earth. 

Sustain-earth.com is a trans-sectorial and trans-disciplinary platform for promoting and implementing “Applied Sustainability” in all sectors and on all levels with focus on Water, Energy and Natural Resources. It involves inter-active instruments for strengthening “Business-to-Business” and “Career-Development-Plans” in particular for young professionals and graduates.

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As the world focus is directed towards the core reasons of poverty and possible solutions, a legitimate question comes to the surface of our discussion table: is poverty a natural phenomena?  Here are some clues on possible answers: