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Posted on 2021-05-26

Why We Can’t Afford to Ignore Positive Tipping Points in Climate Action

When it comes to climate change, we’re forever looking for the light at the end of the tunnel. We’d like to be told that there’s a proper way to decelerate these scary changes — but most often than not, we’re told we’re only moving closer…

Posted on 2021-05-12

How Citizen Science Influences Global Climate Action

Not all scientists wear lab coats or call themselves scientists. They might be students, teachers, activists, organizers, children, politicians… the list goes on. But in the context of citizen science, they’ve contributed as much to the study of our environment and climate action as any…

Posted on 2021-03-17

How the Planet Has Changed Since the First Earth Day

What began as a U.S. Democratic Senator’s call to unite under a common cause—protecting the planet—became a watershed moment and a global phenomenon. Today, Earth Day is marked by demonstrations, parades, large-scale clean-ups, and other awareness-oriented activities. A series of movements in pockets around the…

Posted on 2021-03-07

How Companies Can Adapt to Climate Change by Evaluating Risks

The climate and weather have affected business dealings since time immemorial, from forcing fishermen to stay at the shores to reducing the customers a store sees in a day. Today, however, the climate’s impact is far more intense than a day or two of bad…

Posted on 2021-02-21

Generation Z is Playing a Major Role in the Sustainability Agenda: Here’s How and Why

If we would replace the term Generation Z with Generation Green, we wouldn’t be far off the mark. This generation of the world leads the sustainability agenda and forces brands and businesses to scrap past operations and product lines for sustainable variants. Indeed, the first…

Posted on 2021-01-20

We’re in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: Here’s What That Means

In 2021, the number ‘10’ has special significance. Why, you ask? It’s because we have 10 years to restore the planet and 10 powerful actions that we can commit to, every single day.  There’s no denying that the world is grappling with multiple crises at…

Posted on 2020-11-18

Individual Actions are Good– But They Shouldn’t Be the End All

It’s everyone’s problem- but who is taking responsibility? We are talking about climate change. While there are loads of surveys focusing on human populations being affected, what about the countless at-risk flora and fauna on land and in the oceans? More importantly, what are we, being…

Posted on 2020-07-30

Desertification: What it Means and Why It Matters

Desertification is a silent, invisible, and slow-burn crisis that is currently destabilizing livelihoods and communities in over 100 countries 1. Much like climate change, the impacts of desertification are felt first-hand in specific belts of the world. That said, the rest of the world isn’t at…

Posted on 2020-07-09

A UN SDGs Refresher and Progress Report

Five years after the United Nations General Assembly set the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the UN reported that there is a “continued unevenness of progress” towards SDGs and targets across the world. The 2020 SDG Progress Report 1 found decent enough movement towards declining poverty, sustainable development…

Posted on 2020-07-02

The Psychology of Climate Change: Why Some People Do (or Don’t) Mobilise

It’s hard to argue with the understanding that humans are quite possibly the best problem-solving species on the planet today. Nearly every global challenge has been met with a collective force of resistance; industries rallied to protect their dependants, and everyday people adapted to new…

Posted on 2020-06-14

Regenerative Capitalism: Reinventing the Economic Wheel

Capitalism is broken. The traditional notions of a capitalistic global economy are skewed– the proof is in the stark inequality, impacts of climate change, and raging beliefs that ‘more is better’. The planet, the very basis of civilization, is being plundered and destroyed for profit…

Posted on 2020-06-07

What’s Next for Corporate Sustainability in a Post-COVID19 World

In the face of the pandemic currently dominating headlines and policies of all sorts, many sustainability initiatives have been forced to take a backseat. Eyes have turned to the offsetting of existential challenges and grappling with ‘the new normal.’  However, much like the people in…