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Tears: The Water Diary, How To Live Alone And Be Inspired By Murakami

I hated learning how to drive. It didn't mean the gateway of indepence for me. The driving lesson filled me with anxiety and impending...

Memoir Of A Renaissance And The Powers Of Silence In A Letter

Everything is so environmental these days in my life. I am cold even if it is summer outside. It's summer now. I have been...

The Poet, Young Galaxies Beyond The Baobab And My Parents Love Story That Involved A Lost White Glove

What does it feel like to be a wife, to have a spouse, to live in a large, spacious house, to have that sedan...

Connecting The Dots Between Climate Action and Education

We are headed for a cliff. Rising seas, devastating droughts, spiking temperatures and a notable increase in the severity and frequency of natural disasters...

Today is the day when we are officially 8 billion people living on Earth

Authors: Petra Nahmias. Tanja Sejersen,  Thomas Spoorenberg, Vanessa Steinmayer* The world is due to reach 8 billion people today, November 15! This very precise date...

Overthinking: When I Am Not Writing I think Of South End, Gqeberha

I went to the people closest to me. My mother's response was, "ask your father." As it is, as it was, always, so, I...

Global Climate Solidarity: Rhetoric and Reality

The United Nations Climate Change Conference began in Egypt with a warning that our earth is "sending a despotic signal." Climate change is a...

StoryTime: The Aspirant Novelist, the Gqeberha Filmmaker And The History Of Light In November

I water my plants when I come home. Snip off a dead leaf. My mother heard the key in the door. She calls out...

Climate change as an emerging non-traditional security challenge: A way forward

Climate change is a proven fact and it is an existential threat that affects almost every corner of our planet from the poles to...

COP27 and Climate Change: What Lies Ahead

'Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.  We are on a highway to climate hell with one foot...

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