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...
Do you need a kick-start to pull you out of the winter doldrums? If so, look no further than Naomi Klein’s book On Fire – The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. Ms. Klein is a Canadian journalist, and her research is thorough and her writing arresting. She has specialized in exposing the...
I would like to recommend an important new book, Transformation of Our Food Systems by Hans R Herren, Benedikt Haerlin, IAASTD+10 Advisory Group.
The title may be a bit off-putting for the non-scientist, but it is a very readable book for laypeople and discusses all aspects of food security and the impact of agriculture on many...
Plastic waste. It’s everywhere – from the depths of the oceans to the peaks of mountains. Even before COVID-19, the volume of plastic per day going into the ocean by weight was equivalent to 90 aircraft carriers. This is the speed at which we are destroying the ocean. According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres,
All-pervasive
Palm oil is found in almost everything we use or eat every day. It is in day-to-day items where you wouldn’t even think to look for it, but there it is anyway – cookies, pizza, shampoo, soap, margarine, biofuel, cooking oil, peanut butter, washing detergent, chocolate, ice cream and even lipstick. And the list...