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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[image: UNEP] The Dramatic Decline of Earth’s Biodiversity

By Suzanne York. It feels like a moment of truth for humans and nature.  It’s obvious we are in ecological breakdown and need to change course, but will we do it? The weather is becoming increasingly erratic and harsh, from heatwaves in Europe to floods in South Asia.  Antarctica’s “doomsday” glacier is breaking. There are
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earth is better Redefining Ourselves for Survival

By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. I’m always happy when consequential people make consequential remarks about stuff that matters. One of the most influential people on Earth, the revered naturalist Jane Goodall, has just delivered a consequential whopper. If you’re paying attention, you have to recognize that humanity is on a dead-end course. I’m
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[photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cutest_Koala.jpg] Reality Hits the Davos Crowd: Biodiversity is Actually Important

By Suzanne York. The new year kicked off with a lot of coverage of extinction, mostly due to the tragedy in Australia.  Television news programs, newspapers and social media are awash in reports of the devastating impact of Australia’s raging fires on its enigmatic species.  The images of koalas, kangaroos and wallabies burning are tragic
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["OiesOies-4" by MathGoulet is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] World Population Day: Let’s Not Forget We Need Nature

By Suzanne York, Transition Earth. World Population Day (July 11th) is a special day of recognition that most people are either unaware of, or want to ignore.  After all, discussing population growth is still often considered taboo. Yet we are at the point where it needs to be made more of a major issue.  The terrible
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Reproductive Rights/Women's Rights

[photo: https://naturalwomanhood.org] Playing With Women’s Lives is not a Game

By Suzanne York. Last week there was action around the Global Gag Rule, an on-again, off-again 40-year-old policy detrimental to women’s reproductive health. The incoming Republican U.S. administration rescinded it, after the previous Democratic administration reinstated it.  This back and forth puts women’s lives at great risk. Simply put, the Global Gag Rule (GGR) denies
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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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