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A Burkina Faso climate-adapted school, for and by the community
‘You break it, you fix it’. In retail stores, this seems common sense (as well as a source of anxiety if one is with a toddler in the shop in question). But this logic is rarely applied when it comes to responsibilities for climate change.
Recycling urban infrastructures: experiences from Seoul and Beirut
Let’s do a little experiment: Google “1960s child’s car seat.” Done? It’s easy to chuckle half amused - half scandalized—at human practices from the past and wonder how could “they” be so oblivious. Well, the thing is, it's still actually "us", and as the song goes, “The times, they are a-changin’.”
Kamikatsu, the Japanese village that’s a zero-waste champion
The next time you feel lazy about recycling your trash, think of Kamikatsu, a Japanese municipality where its 1,400 inhabitants - mostly elderly - sort waste into more than 45 categories. (Yes, 45).
GreenInCities, exploring urban nature-based solutions
“La naturaleza es sabia”, goes a familiar Spanish saying, reminding us that ‘nature knows best’—though, truth be told, we humans tend to be slow learners (how else do you explain our tendency to pave over every inch of land, only to then miss the shade of a tree?).
