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Sustainable Community Project: A Zero Waste Motive

In Africa, Climate, Features 19 by Mary Kurek

By Joshua Amponsem Our concern over waste, our wish to encourage recycling, and our worries about pollution conceptualized the theme “A Zero Waste Motive” Africa is facing a growing waste management crisis. While the volumes of waste generated are relatively small, compared to developed regions, the mismanagement of waste in Africa is already affecting human and environmental health. Waste is, …

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The Leadership We Need to Drive Climate Action in Africa

In Africa, Climate, environment, Features 16 by Mary Kurek

Finding Your Purpose and Making Skills and Talents Count by Dr. Richard Munang “If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents” – this African proverb encapsulates the continent’s climate change predicament. That while it has been a source of misfortune, it constantly provides us with lessons to climate-proof and grow our economies – but only if …

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Microalgae and Climate Change by David D. Ramjohn

In Agriculture, Climate, Features 16 by Mary Kurek

Microalgae can reverse Global Warming that drives Climate Change. They did it once before and they can do it again if we harness their ability in diverse sustainable economic activity while changing our patterns of production and consumption from linear to circular. Approximately two point seven billion years ago Earth’s atmosphere had no free oxygen. Life prior to this time …

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The Power of One: Rising to Global Challenge Starts at Home by Robin Smith

In Empowerment, Game Changers 13, Introducer Game Changers and World NGOs' Best Impact 13 by Mary Kurek

In a world whose demands seem continually to be shifting toward tribalism, fear-based adjudication and “mine-ness” across the most advanced societies, defining an organization’s place in the global progress landscape can be challenging. Addressing foundational concerns effectively and realistically stands to lay the most solid groundwork upon which to build any proposal. Lorin Fries, now a strategic consultant in tech …