Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief UN Newsnews.un.org/en © UNICEF The women of Bokiat Village, Timbuktu, present fresh onions from their vegetable garden where UNICEF, with the support of Sweden, rehabilitated a manual water pump. (13 March 2019) 16 July 2019 […]
Something More Important than $?
New Zealand Ditches GDP For Happiness And Wellbeing James Ellsmoor Contributor Forbes This Index would help governments use their budgets with the aim to increase the welfare of its citizens instead of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product New Zealand’s change in policy represents a shift that economists have long theorized could be a more effective […]
Greening European Islands
The European Union Is Helping These Islands To Go Renewable by James Ellsmoor (Forbes) With an aim to help make islands more self-sufficient, prosperous and sustainable, the European Union has recently launched its Clean Energy for EU Islands project. Twenty-six islands across 10 European nations have been selected due to their potential to successfully establish a […]
Where to find big ideas for addressing climate change
Sometimes we all need a boost of optimism about our prospects of staving off the worst kinds of climate disruption. We also need to see big thinking and big ambition in practice – or, we might say, to see how ideas can be scaled up, even way up. Here are some excellent places to look […]
Migrating Biodiversity
Look South to see what your Ecosystem could look like. Many climate change models show the probability of changes. One of the easiest ways to contemplate such changes is to look towards the south. A few hundred kilometers south for most Canadians lies the probable ecosystem in which they will live in a few decades. […]