Rising by Lifting Others
How Enactus Aryabhatta, a team of young entrepreneurs in India, is accelerating the achievement of the SDGs. Are the SDGs attainable? Many people ask. It’s easy to let the seemingly slow progress of SDG implementation discourage us from taking action. Yes, 2030
Mauritius Acts As Chinese-Flagged Ship With 130 Tonnes of Oil Runs Aground
Fishing vessel Lu Rong Yuan Yu 588 ran ashore on Sunday, March 7, 2021, about 10 kilometers from Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. The following day, Mauritius mobilized and deployed coast guards and armed forces to rescue the stranded vessel.
Rethinking Our Hushed Voices on Animal Endangerment and Extinction
Of the 112,432 species assessed for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, 30,178 are vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered. The current animal endangerment and extinction crisis is mostly of our own making — we are
Mindset Change Is Key to Building Sustainable Communities
When the Forest Forces project started in rural Zimbabwe in 2013, there was a lot of anticipation. 60,000 vulnerable households, across four provinces, were getting five years to improve their lives and create sustainable livelihoods. Forest Forces was jointly funded
2019: The Time for a Vital Food Choice Lesson
Sustainable fashion, sustainable beauty, sustainable technology – the idea of sustainability is growing and it is unsurprising that sustainable food is also part of the ‘sustainable movement’. While people have become accustomed to organic food, sustainable eating is a relatively
Sustainable Fisheries: Tackling Malnutrition and Deficiencies in One Go
Zero hunger is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and it continues to receive a lot of attention because the number of people affected by hunger increased by 38 million to 815 million between 2015 and 2016.
How Sustainable is Green Beauty?
There has been a recent shift in consumer perspectives and consumers are now favoring organic products over anything that is processed. People are now more conscious of what they are exposing their bodies to and cosmetics are no exception. In