Consumption and Waste

Myanmar What Makes the World Go Round?

By Suzanne York. Our global world is structured in such a way that it will go to any length to get natural resources needed for modern life.  This is especially true of rare earth metals, that power our electronic devices. But there is a price to pay for this way of life. Global Witness found
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[Photo: singularityhub.com] Can We Win the Battle of Plastic Pollution?

By Candela Vázquez Asenjo, youth blogger for Transition Earth. I have been an activist campaigning against plastic pollution for the past four years. During this time, I have learned about a number of projects that promised to change the course of plastic pollution, but sadly none have actually been strong enough to have a lasting
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[photo: Ian Kirk, via Creative Commons] Why are People Rushing to Join the Anti-plastics Bandwagon?

By Candela Vázquez Asenjo, youth blogger for Transition Earth. Since the 1950’s our world has made some of the biggest developments in history. We came from the disasters of the second world war to a world of peace with no precedence in the developed countries. However, even with this scenario of peace and comfort, some
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Flower Attaining a Sustainable Life Through Minimalism

By Candela Vázquez Asenjo, youth blogger, Transition Earth. Life as we know it is changing rapidly. The rise of new technologies, globalization, the increasing socioeconomic disparities and unprecedented anthropogenic climate change is resulting in a change in how we pursue our lives, some of it for the better. The challenges we face are leading to
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[photo: FAO] A Second Chance to Get Paper Products Right

By Candela Vázquez Asenjo, youth blogger, Transition Earth. What would happen if one day we did not have any more paper? Would technology be the only alternative and solution to this and other pressing problems? We live in a time where the Earth’s forest mass is fast disappearing due to the massive deforestation caused by human
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Reproductive Rights/Women's Rights

Josh photo of young girls Sports: An Effective Way to End Gender-based Violence

By Joshua Mirondo. Gender-based violence (GBV) is a critical problem in Uganda, with alarming statistics. The National Survey on Violence in Uganda revealed that a staggering 95% of Ugandan women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence.  In addition to the physical and emotional toll, GBV also has other devastating consequences. For instance, in 2021, Uganda’s
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Biodiversity/Conservation

[Photo: Photo by Dylan Shaw, Unsplash] Resetting Our Relations with the Earth

By Suzanne York. This year is likely to be the planet’s warmest one on record, just beating 2023 as the hottest since at least the 19th century. Next month the climate negotiations will kick off in oil-rich Azerbaijan, following last year’s talks in oil-rich Dubai. The United Nations states humanity is currently on track to see between
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Family Planning

[photo: Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, Unsplash] The Gender Transformative Approach to Contraception

By Joshua Mirondo. Uganda has one of the most youthful populations in the world, with slightly more than half of its population under age 15. The total population of Uganda in 2024 is 45.9 million people, which represents an increase of 11.3 million persons from the 2014 census. Addressing the reproductive health needs of youth
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Other Resources

Photo by v2osk on Unsplash Will This be the Year for Rights of Nature?

By Suzanne York. The coming years might be a wild ride. 2023 was the warmest year on record, and this year could be even hotter. Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating. Human activities are impacting the world to such an extent that our
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Energy and Carbon Emissions

Photo by Kouji Tsuru on Unsplash Gasping for Breath – Valuing Clean Air for Vulnerable Populations

By Suzanne York. There are so many detrimental impacts from human activities that are extremely harmful to both people and the planet.  The worst ones – and there are many – affect children, the elderly and other vulnerable populations the most.  And yet we aren’t trying very hard to change the situation. Increasingly Gray Skies
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Youth Rights

SRHR Allliance Week The Importance of Integrated Services and Information in Uganda

By Joshua Mirondo. For the past seven years, the SRHR Alliance Uganda (Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights) convenes an annual event called the Alliance Week. It is a week-long activity geared towards bridging the SRHR knowledge gap and bringing youth-friendly SRH-related services closer to communities across Uganda. A different district is selected each year, where
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Economics and GDP

[Photo by Passang Tobgay on Unsplash] A choice between national happiness – and global misery

by Julian Cribb, AM FRSA FTSE. With 30,000 wildfires blazing from one end of the Planet to the other on any single day, melting icecaps and glaciers, dying coral reefs, polluted oceans, lakes and rivers, vanishing wildlife and forests and growing scarcity of water and soil, the outcome for humanity is already plain to see.
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Water Issues

[Photo: Tom Raftery, Flickr/Creative Commons] From ‘Day Zero’ to ‘Spaceship Earth’ – Confronting Global Water Scarcity

By Suzanne York. ‘Day Zero’ – it’s a term so applicable to our times of environmental overreach. If you aren’t familiar with the term, it came into vogue a couple of years ago when Cape Town, South Africa, was facing a water crisis of fairly epic proportions.  Day Zero was the city’s term for the
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