Eco-Villages Breathe New Life Into Rural Senegal
Eighty-odd kilometres outside Dakar, the Senegalese capital, solar power and an irrigation scheme are transforming a traditional village into what the government hopes will be a model for the future of...
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Q&A: Sustainable Development Key to Reducing Drug Use
“Drugs and crime threaten one of our most important goals – to ensure sustainable development around the world,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated on Jun. 26, during a General...
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Trash Collectors Become Zimbabwe’s Unlikely Climate Change Ambassadors
Tomson Chikowero was ashamed of his job. He did not want anyone finding out what he did to earn a living, so he used to wake up early every morning and leave his home in Hatfield, a residential suburb...
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Q&A: Sustainability Now a Matter of Life and Death
Humanity is living beyond its means with the growing demand for food, medicines and other nature-based products, making sustainable consumption and conservation a matter of life and death. This is...
View ArticleRiding Towards Sustainable Development, on Bamboo
In Ghana, a country burgeoning with traffic congestion, increasing economic growth, and a stark urban-rural divide, making frames of bicycles out of bamboo could be the key to promoting sustainable...
View ArticleFarming Among the Waste in Cameroon
Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor has six plots of land where she grows maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and leafy vegetables, including cabbages, wild okra and greens. The soil in which her crops...
View ArticleRio Summit’s Legacy Still a Question Mark
Academics gathered in Washington on Wednesday suggested that the mixed experience at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June, has increased the importance of...
View ArticleNew Plans to Protect Nature
At the close of the ten-day World Conservation Congress that ran from Sept. 6-15 on the South Korean island of Jeju, members of the convening International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)...
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Most Inhumane of Weapons
I believe that most of the world’s citizens would agree that nuclear weapons should be considered inhumane. It is encouraging to see that there is now a growing, if still nascent, movement to outlaw...
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“Eco-Reconstruction” Still an Impossible Dream for Chilean Village
The reconstruction of the fishing village of Boyeruca, destroyed by the tsunami that swept over central-south Chile on Feb. 27, 2010, was meant to serve as a model of ecological and sustainable...
View ArticleHow to Break the Stalemate on Global Sustainability
The current growth model is not sustainable. Neither the green economy nor alternative sources of energy can prevent global warming. Solutions will come from concerted actions at the local and national...
View ArticleWhere Skis Replace Bullets
When 37-year-old Igor Urizar first happened upon the isolated mountain village of Penjwin, 300 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, he had a vision of this border-town — nestled in the pristine,...
View ArticleClimate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia and Africa – Report
Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and...
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Q&A: Planting the Seeds for Sustainable Development
Rousbeh Legatis interviews JOSÉ GRAZIANO DA SILVA, director-general of the Food and Agriculture organisation of the United Nations (FAO).By Rousbeh LegatisUNITED NATIONS, Jun 19 2012 (IPS) By now, the...
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U.N. Paper Factory Threatened with Closure
By Thalif DeenRIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 19 2012 (IPS) One of the world’s largest “paper factories” – a dubious title traditionally conferred on the United Nations – is on the verge of running out of...
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Rio’s Roadmap Falls Flat, Civil Society Groups Say
A poster on a wall at Rio Centro. Civil society groups say they are "very disappointed" with formal negotiations at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Credit: Stephen Leahy/IPSBy Stephen LeahyRIO DE JANEIRO, Jun...
View ArticleGet Ready for a World of Nine Billion
As the global population threatens to explode – from the current seven billion to over nine billion by mid-century – the sharp increase in humans not only means overcrowded cities but also increasing...
View ArticleMarket Gardens Key to Autonomy for Niger Women
By Ousseini IssaDIOGA, Niger, Jun 22 2012 (IPS) Four figures bend intently over their work in one corner of the large vegetable garden near the western Niger village of Dioga. Months after the...
View ArticleEco-Villages Breathe New Life Into Rural Senegal
By Koffigan E. AdigbliDAKAR, Jul 3 2012 (IPS) Eighty-odd kilometres outside Dakar, the Senegalese capital, solar power and an irrigation scheme are transforming a traditional village into what the...
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Q&A: Sustainable Development Key to Reducing Drug Use
Coralie Tripier interviews THOMAS PIETSCHMANN, drug expert at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).By Coralie TripierUNITED NATIONS, Jul 3 2012 (IPS) “Drugs and crime threaten one of...
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