Together For Climate Justice
Climate change is much more than an environmental issue. Climate change is just as much a social, ethical, and a political issue, as well as a human rights issue.
Author: The Beam
Future Farms: Agritech Innovations To Feed A Changing Planet
The future of agriculture will be directly impacted by two of humanity’s biggest menaces on the horizon: population growth and climate change. With more mouths to feed and less planet to feed them on, and increasingly alarming predictions of environmental shifts, innovators working in crop agriculture have to figure out how to grow more food, faster, with fewer resources, by developing new technologies to scale up the planet’s food production mechanisms sustainably.
Drone Rangers: Thousands Of Lives Will Be Saved By Drones In The Next 5 Years
Once thought of as a niche toy for early adopters, drones can now be found buzzing over parks, in select cities, and are even being increasingly used for video production as the popularity of aerial photography soars. However, drones aren’t only for fun and entertainment, and the high-pitched hum of their spinning propellers could replace the wail of ambulance sirens for global citizens as drones are put to work for humanitarian purposes.
From India To The UK: The Youth-Led Solutions (Em)powering Communities In Need
Meet Akshay Makar, Riccardo Luca Conti, and Joana Dabaj, as they share their stories of successes and challenges in their paths to bringing sustainable solutions to their communities.
Connecting The Unconnected: Reflections On Using Subsidies For Rural Electrification
The lack of access to affordable, reliable energy is a barrier to development, whether that be powering autoclaves and centrifuges in rural clinics to improve health indicators or powering local agricultural processing to retain more of the value of production locally
4 Reasons To Work With Women When It Comes To Energy Access
One billion people around the globe still live without electricity today, and almost three billion do not have access to clean cooking solutions. Exposure to biomass smoke kills millions of people each year. Most of them are women and children.
Reshaping Africa’s Rural Food Systems & Cutting Food Losses
Academics, NGOs, governments, and diverse businesses are trying to stem food loss in sub-Saharan Africa, while creating conditions for farmers to make a decent living.
The Sustainable Fashion Challenge
We all know the ‘Fast Fashion’ industry is a disaster for the planet and for workers, who are often women in the developing world earning less than three dollars a day in unsafe conditions. It’s not as difficult or as expensive as you might think to shift to ecological and fair-trade clothing.
Sustainable Architecture From Around The Globe: The Beauty Behind Energy
Here are some of the latest sustainable architectural projects coming out of Texas, California, and Singapore.
Four Women Environmental Activists Who Are Changing The World
Women have made major contributions to environment activism and to swing the spotlight back onto global environmental issues. These women dedicate their lives to fight against global environmental destruction.
