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The right structures have power – Simon Mitambo on reviving cultural and biological diversity

You are the coordinator of the Africa Biodiversity Network (ABN), you run the Society for Alternative Learning and Transformation (SALT), you participated in the inaugural Earth Jurisprudence programme, and you just founded a school in your home village. This is quite a lot, what links these 4 things you are

Going farther together – the Lake Victoria Peace and Sustainability Centre, Rusinga Island

Why a network and not a group, I asked Solomon Owiti, founder of LVPSC. He asked himself, “How can I reach more people?” and realised that rather than starting an organisation himself, forming a network to bring all the organisations working on Rusinga Island together under a banner of peace,

“Always the same, always different”: a response to Ted Trainer

The late John Peel once said of The Fall that they were “always the same, always different”. The same could be said of Ted Trainer’s critiques of Transition. He just published another one, many of the points in which he has made before, and I have already responded to

Putting things back where they should be – managing waste in Naivasha Town

How did you come to be working in Naivasha? I come from Central Kenya but I found myself in Naivasha, when I came to live with my sister and work in the flower farms [which supply a third of cut flowers to Europe]. I wasn’t content there and decided

A visit to Urinetown (no, really)

Finding creative, playful ways to get people thinking about ecological issues is one of the things that always fires my curiosity. So, when I was in Brussels recently, I was intrigued to be invited to attend the final dress rehearsal of a musical called ‘Urinetown’ put on by Brussels Light

Falcon in the Storm

The nation of Hungary, throughout its 1000 year history, has always been at a crossroad. Due to its location, it is one of the places where Western and Eastern Europe meet- sometimes in the shape of cultural exchange, trade, or, more often than not, in war. Wedged between Russia, Germany

Save the Date: European Day of Sustainable Communities