We all do it … boredom, restlessness, etc … we scroll around, we browse around looking for something to distract us, to help us forget important things. Doom scrolling, mindless internet browsing, or whatever you call it … it’s cooking the planet according to a new study from The Ecologist. It’s not, however, your internet…
Sometimes a news piece just makes sense and is motivating. It’s not really the news itself that is inspiring (though in this case it really is), but what the news triggers. A new way of looking at same old problems and solutions – my problems! Mongabay published a great article this week on Elephant /…
Mongabay published a third article in a series of 3 about protected areas in East Africa on Fences. I’ve posted on fences and thought the topic fading away into the embers of ‘don’t care anymore’. (Fences 1, Fences 2) Mongabay’s piece goes through elephants and lions in greater depth. The key element seems captured in…
After the recent article and post on Sudan’s food insecurity and humanitarian crisis, another article focused on agricultural solutions in Africa hit today. This article from The Conversation about the book, Decolonising African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation, by William G. Moseley. The UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in…
