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Project Smile: On the Power of the Youth

PhotoCredit: Sam Tamayo - Project Smile History is filled with youth movements that have sparked change in the world. From the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, to the events at Tiananmen Square, to the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, to modern...

Empowering Africa

PhotoCredit: ROMAN ODINTSOV.  I read the second edition of The State They’re In by Matthew Lockwood, a book which examines African poverty's causes and politics to propose better aid, trade, and debt policies. It also covers the 2005 Gleneagles G8 and WTO summit...

Finding middle ground: Perspectives on sustainable living in rural Italy

I recently spent nine months traveling up mountains and along coasts to investigate why and how young people are choosing to farm for a living in Calabria, a southern region of Italy known for having lots of land but increasingly less people and even fewer jobs. I met...
Climate Culpability

Climate Culpability

Photo Credit: Vincent M.A. Janssen.  The term culpability may be loosely defined as accepting responsibility or blame and, by extension, the consequences and condemnation for a particular action perceived as wrong or resulting in a negative outcome. The concept of...

On De-extinction and Conservation

On De-extinction and Conservation

Photo Credit: Francesco Ungaro. During the Pleistocene Age and the early centuries of the Holocene, thousands of megaherbivores; mammoths, bison, elk, woolly rhinos - and many other animals weighing over 1000 kg - roamed a planet Earth that was in the grip of the last...

The Climate Crisis and the Fallacy of Green Tech

The Climate Crisis and the Fallacy of Green Tech

Photo Credit: Karl Gerber, Hürth, NRW, Germany. The world around us is rapidly changing. As the percentage of land under pressure from industrial, agricultural and other anthropogenic activities expands, the climate crisis has worsened.  The number of natural...

Skeletons

Skeletons

Photo Credit: Gary Bembridge, First Street, Harare, Zimbabwe From a very young age, I was taught that the country of my birth was haunted by the lingering effects of its tragic history. Similar to the fiery images of hell reserved for the wicked, the horrors inflicted...

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