Sellina Kanyerere-Mkweteza
Malawi
“Women are always in the forefront in any project that will help them and their families.”
This is rainy season for Malawi and people, government, and civil society groups are raising awareness on the importance of growing trees.
If you walked in the forests of Malawi 25 years ago, at least that’s how far back I can remember, you would smell natural fruits, natural scents with bees trying to get pollen from one flower to another. You would see rivers and streams swollen with clean running water. I remember when I …

Nadra Mahdi
Sudan
Salwa Altayab is a woman I met recently who is learning about climate change to understand its effect on her life.
This Sudanese female is 38 years old. She comes from Blue Nile State (Baw). She is a farmer, from the tribe of Al Angasana. She has a golden black colour, with a magic smile, and very wonderful clothes.
In simple words, she says, “Yes I know it, climate change is changing our lives, because we depend on the rains here for agriculture. Sometimes the rain falls heavy and destroys our …

Lesley Pocock
Australia
To fellow citizens of planet earth, We have evolved to the point where we are the universe contemplating the universe, yet at the same time we have all but destroyed our only vehicle into the future – planet earth. The true path of civilisation lies beyond wars and greed which is non-history; beyond individual ownership and to a genuine sharing of all planetary resources, not just with the members of our current generations of humans – but with humans across time and space.
It has not started yet, our real …

One of the first news stories to catch my eye this week summarized a report from Susan Solomon, a Senior Scientist representing the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its international partners, warning that the grim consequences of global warming will be with us for 1,000 years even if we reverse course now. One reaction to news like this might be: “We’re doomed, so what’s the use?”
Clearly, the Obama Administration is not taking this position. The federal requirements that were announced the same day, affecting new cars as of …