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Making a Difference
Many of us these days are searching for ways to make a difference. We are mired in social and environmental issues of our species own making. While at times it can all seem a bit hopeless, I believe there are enough of us out there prepared to do what it takes to make...
Living in the City
18th of March is Global Recycling Day. At first look one could be cynical and think shouldn’t every day be recycling day? Also, as there doesn’t seem to be a universal “language” of recycling isn't it difficult to get behind the idea of global recycling? Putting...
Educating Girls
Warning: this post contains material covering the topic of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) that may cause distress and discomfort to sensitive readers.Educating women and girls is one of the top ten solutions to climate change, according to Project Drawdown: the most...
Blue Sky Society
Its 4am NZ time and I’m waking up bleary-eyed to tune into a webinar taking place on the other side of the world in South Africa – it’s a more reasonable hour there. Today’s Wild Webinar topic is Pangolins. This seems fitting as it also World Pangolin Day this week -...
Business & Biodiversity
This post sees us delving into business and how business models may be changing as capitalism and the might of the big corporation starts to wane. This is a broad topic. In the interests of not being here for pages and pages, I will focus on some specific examples of...
Health and Biodiversity
People have been asking me about Biodiversity – what it is and why it is so important to a healthy Mother Earth (which includes us, of course). In this post I have curated some resources I use to help address this question – What is Biodiversity and why is it so...