As the country celebrates Consumer Welfare Month and commemorates International Waste Pickers’ Day (held on March 1), BAN Toxics warns against the unsustainable production and consumption of disposable tech feeding the e-waste crisis, the fastest-growing waste stream. “Annually, the world…
It is evening in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, one of NATO’s easternmost members. I am waiting at the edge of Izvor Park in the city center to meet with a young friend who has fled Ukraine. In the backdrop…
Tiza Mafira: Fighting Abuses to the Environment One Logical Step at a Time by Marco Sumayao Tiza Mafira is used to adversity. For more than 10 years, she’s fought to create a more sustainable Indonesia and has seen many setbacks…
March 8, International Working Women’s Day, is approaching and I remember a cartoon in a Latin American magazine. There was an elegant woman doing her nails and she shouts to her maid: “Maria, bring me my coat, I’m late for…
Europe is continuing its suicidal mad dash towards the militarisation of society. After a year of war in Ukraine, almost everywhere there is talk of reintroducing compulsory military service, reopening a debate that was thought to be definitively closed and…
Dear President Biden, My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other night. You, the most powerful man in the world, were sitting right in front of me. Normal people…
March arrives and a new school year begins. Many families are relieved to return to their work and domestic routines as their children start school, but it is always accompanied by the stress of the economic demands placed on them…
Nalini Shekar: Giving Waste Pickers Dignity and Legitimacy by Sherma Benosa Homecoming Nalini Shekar saw at once the missing piece in Bangalore’s solid waste management program — the waste pickers. The regrettable non-inclusion of waste pickers in the conversations on, ironically,…
Bolivia, a country in the Andes, has developed strongly in recent years. Since the left-wing president Evo Morales took office, poverty in the country has been more than halved, life expectancy has risen by four years and the economy is…
28 February 2023, Quezon City. The environmental health and justice watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has added its voice to the call to create a Global Green Chemicals and Waste Fund. The group aired the need for a dedicated fund to…
