Traditional building practices offer sustainable solutions as African cities grow
Located on the dusty outskirts of the Burkina Faso town of Koudougou, the Lycée Schorge Secondary School shows what is possible when you mix...
Gender Equality Within the First Nations
Gender has always played an important role in Canadian politics. In Sarah Nickel’s book, Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender and the Union of BC...
Advanced forecasting to help millions on coasts and in cities cope with climate-change impacts
By SARAH WILD
In the freezing reaches of Greenland, fissures in the ice sheet mark the battle lines in the fight against climate change. Greenhouse gases...
The Essayist, Genocide In Africa And My Chemical Imbalance Is The Reason I Am Sad
Hiroshima is now gilded in history. These are lines for poetry, illness. It’s become an anthem for the wreck that I have become, my...
The Artist Unleashed: Psychosis, Denial, Mental Illness and Emotional Support For The Poet
Connecting the dots
The case study Miriam Gelhor did not understand how to use the word bathos in a sentence. Did that make her stupid...
How Artificial Intelligence is helping tackle environmental challenges
We can't manage what we don't measure, goes the old business adage. This rings true more than ever today as the world faces a...
COP27: Will it live up to expectations?
As explained earlier, COP 27 held in Egypt this time started with a proposal for climate compensation.
This annual major conference is attended by 200...
‘Penny For The Guy’: Of Fireworks, Kings And Climate Change
In Great Britain, November 5th is Guy Fawkes Day. It commemorates the failed Gunpowder plot of 1605, when Catholics tried to blow up Parliament...
Front Doors That Have Let Poetry Into My Life
The house smelled like sugar biscuits, fried onions, and cabbage bredie. To me, it was a rare and comforting smell. There was something almost...
Blame It On Apartheid: The Middle Class, Relational Hunger And The Modern Family Dynamic
Lennox
Lennox is down on his luck. In his late thirties he sports a beard. He looks older than he really is, has dreadlocks and...