In my recent article on Donella Meadows, I mentioned an excellent book about the evolutionary process: A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us—the Evolution of Life on Earth, by Sidney Liebes, Elisabeth Satoris et al. An outdoor exhibit version of the Walk Through Time is now open to visitors at Lassalle-Haus Bad Schönbrunn in Switzerland until...
In 1992, a book appeared that was important enough to be translated into 30 foreign languages and 30 million copies were printed. Donella Meadows was the lead writer of The Limits to Growth, a book that has gone through three updates and outlined scenarios that presented the various consequences of our behavior that could affect the...
Anyone who cares about the environment is surely aghast at images of overflowing landfills, refuse- blocked streams and rivers, and the great garbage patches in the oceans. Each one of us has the responsibility to reduce our waste, and thereby our consumption, to as close to zero as possible. We are among the ones who have the...
You probably already know that FAWCO’s Target Project for 2020-2022 is S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Elimination), an initiative of Hope for Girls and Women in Tanzania. The goal of S.A.F.E is to protect girls from FGM and foster positive social change from within the FGM-practicing communities in the Mara Region of Tanzania.
January 2020 began with a lot of hope and optimism because for the first time in my lifetime, we experienced rainfall in this first month of the year – an unusual phenomenal indeed! In this part of the globe, this month is usually driest. This...
The world is changing, and reducing our individual waste is critical for each of us. This includes newborn babies. They don’t know they 
Amanda’s daughter, Rivaare causing the production of huge amounts of non-recyclable waste just by wearing disposable diapers. Luckily, the solution already exists and has improved in recent years to be very easy...
