Declaring a Climate Emergency

Declaring a Climate Emergency

Climate Emergency UK Roundtable – My Deeper Thoughts for 2023 This post on climate emergency was originally published in late 2019 and has been updated in Dec 2023, providing added information and reflection in regard to Covid-19.  At the back end of 2019, I was...
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | Brave New World

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | Brave New World

Back in my native South Africa, we practice something called Load Shedding. What this means is that the energy the country produces is shared around the country at different times of the day or night to balance the capabilities of the grid, with the demands of the...
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation | Brave New World

SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation | Brave New World

We are told to rigorously wash our hands multiple times per day, which is fine in countries with a high level of clean water and sanitation, but in many parts of the developing world, it is a hard task. Covid-19 has done more to demonstrate the importance of hand...