“For this school we enroll children under 5 years of age, who are in danger of not reaching their 10th birthday.” The words of Uganda Hands for Hope social worker Julius literally took my breath away. I was visiting families in the Namuwongo slum in Kampala, home to 20,000 people, and Julius and Felister, social … Saving Young Lives and Giving Hope in Uganda
I know I am not alone in frequently becoming completely overwhelmed by the scale of the climate challenge facing the world. With the level of pessimism and negative stories in the news (by some counts, up to 98% of environmental news stories are negative in nature), it’s no wonder that many of us reflexively reach … My New Year Commitment to a More Sustainable World
I love the thinking behind Betsy Reed Podcast ‘The Discomfort Practice’. That if we have the courage to sit with discomfort , there are – in Betsy’s words – “superpowers that lie on the other side of stepping into the unknown.” I have to admit though to major discomfort when she invited me to be … Guest on Betsy Reed’s The Discomfort Practice Podcast
The Black Death, the pandemic that killed between a third and a half of Europe’s population in the fourteenth century, left landowners with the prospect of crops rotting in the fields. Landowners in the north of Italy responded to the challenge by paying workers more, which fostered the development of a middle class. In the … Pandemics change history: How will our ancestors judge us?
