Over the past two decades, the practice of carbon offsetting has been met with both examples of success and failure. Academic literature and media coverage gives a plethora of examples of cautionary tales on these projects…

This research study was undertaken as a capstone project for the Global Livingston Institute. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that are associated with plastic recycling in Kabale, Uganda, to enable the client to make changes to increase collection rates.

In this sustainability plan, I first detail pertinent macroeconomic trends, as it mostly relates to agriculture and the implications of COVID-19. Then, I highlight development challenges and solutions in Uganda in two industries that largely impact Uganda's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate: agriculture and energy.

Industry in Uganda consumes up to 600 metric tons of plastic waste a day and only about 6% of that waste is collected (Planet Buyback, 2021).

Address UN Sustainable Development Goals to build a regional collation of UN, NGO, Global Bottlers and Local Governments to invest in an rPET facility.

The focus of this paper is on replicating a successful Bottle-to-Bottle recycling plant that currently exists in South Africa. We believe the best solution is to build the same plant in a central location in East Africa to serve as a regional solution to the processing of plastics collected across multiple East African countries including those collected in Uganda.

Agriculture employs nearly seventy percent of the workforce in Uganda, but many farmers lose up to forty percent of their harvest due to improper food storage practices.

The Entusi model farm, located in the Lake Bunyonyi area of Southwestern Uganda, serves as an outdoor, hands-on classroom for local farmers to learn new farming techniques and practices.

The project goal is to provide a sustainable energy solution for smallholder farmers surrounding Lake Bunyonyi in rural Uganda. The project focused on a sustainable, environmentally friendly, and reliable solution to provide villagers with access to electricity for phone charging and lighting.

The design presented in this brochure will illustrate the steps that need to be taken to properly design a robust and functioning check time on your farm.

In 2013 Global Livingston Institute completed work on Entusi, a resort that would serve as a community hub for community development, leadership, research, and the formation of new partnerships. The authors of this paper worked closely with Global Livingston Institute to complete the research described in this paper.

When interviews facilitated by past Capstone teams illuminated former child soldiers’ need and want for a capacity-building initiative centered on enhancing their agricultural proficiency, GLI launched the Sustainable Farming Collaborative/Model Farm initiative in Spring 2018 with a cohort of 60 villagers.

Develop a renewable energy platform that allows Entusi Resort & Retreat Center to be 100% operational on solar power, and to use this platform to electrify the communities around Lake Bunyonyi.

Philanthropy and the private sector are looking to social impact investing as a new approach to international development. Private equity is experimenting with innovative models that engage the nonprofit and public sectors with market investments that make a profit and support a public good.

Establish Entusi as a model microgrid facility & training location.

As recent graduates of Environmental Studies programs at the University of Colorado and Portland State University our interest in pursuing this work-study opportunity through the Global Livingston Institute (GLI) lay primarily 1n the areas of land conservation, wildlife preservation and innovative management strategies.