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Perú, te quiero verde —
Perú, te quiero verde —
Peru, I want/love you green
Irene Hofmeijer
Jul 28, 2020
LIVE SLOW
LIVE SLOW
Pollute Less, Experience More
Irene Hofmeijer
Oct 25, 2019
Conference: 3 days. Traveling: 8 days. Here’s what I learned
Conference: 3 days. Traveling: 8 days. Here’s what I learned
An airplane is a lousy teleport: you enter a plane at your origin, and seemingly indifferent to what’s in between — ocean, mountains…
Yori Kamphuis
Oct 14, 2019
Plastic Free July 2019
Plastic Free July 2019
(Putting my Planet First)
Sanjana K
Aug 18, 2019
Climate Reality Training recap- Kara Eusebio
Climate Reality Training recap- Kara Eusebio
“How do you describe yourself? Write down nine words that describe you and then share them with the people sitting next to you.”
Ottawa Global Shapers
Apr 2, 2019
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Are we not missing individual sustainable goals?
Are we not missing individual sustainable goals?
The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 global goals that have been designed by the United Nations Development Programme…
Matias Acosta
Sep 5, 2018
Becoming a Climate Reality Leader
Becoming a Climate Reality Leader
Picture this: You walk into a ballroom before the event is supposed to start. You weave your way through the tables until you find the…
Rachel Sorenson
Sep 9, 2018
DIY recycling at home!
DIY recycling at home!
Several people send their waste for recycling on a monthly basis. But most of them don’t even know how it works. Do you know how exactly…
Amishi Parasrampuria
Jul 23, 2018
Breathing in Kolkata is injurious to Health
Breathing in Kolkata is injurious to Health
Smoking is a choice but breathing is not, On Every Cigarette packet there is a warning but there are no warnings for the toxic air you…
Ajay Mittal
Nov 23, 2018
Bottom-up or Top-down: Are we on the road to decarbonizing our future?
Bottom-up or Top-down: Are we on the road to decarbonizing our future?
Recall your favorite childhood nature picture book. Imagine that double page spread and the illustrations of animal-filled forests that…
Irene Hofmeijer
Apr 21, 2016
What I’ve learned from Al Gore’s Climate Reality training — 1
What I’ve learned from Al Gore’s Climate Reality training — 1
It was a privilege to join the three day Climate Reality training by Al Gore in Berlin last week. My personal highlight was an almost three…
Yori Kamphuis
Jul 4, 2018
5 ways Cities can Reduce their water-related Carbon Footprint
5 ways Cities can Reduce their water-related Carbon Footprint
A “carbon footprint” is a measure of the impact of an individual or community’s activities have on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2)…
Mounir Kabbara
Sep 10, 2018
What I’ve learned from Al Gore — 4: on (drinking) water and health
What I’ve learned from Al Gore — 4: on (drinking) water and health
It was a privilege to join the three day Climate Reality training by Al Gore in Berlin in the end of June. Today part 4 of what I learned…
Yori Kamphuis
Jul 16, 2018
Must we change, Can we change, Will we change: A Global Shaper’s reflections on The Climate Reality…
Must we change, Can we change, Will we change: A Global Shaper’s re...
Trained by Nobel Laureate and former United States Vice President Al Gore and team in Los Angeles, I just returned to India as a Climate…
Pratik Gauri
Sep 6, 2018
We must change. Here is how we can (and you can save money while you’re at it!)
We must change. Here is how we can (and you can save money while yo...
I hope my four earlier blog posts convinced you we must change. “Yes, yes, I know what the issue is,” some of you felt perhaps a little…
Yori Kamphuis
Jul 24, 2018
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
“By this time the 1910 oaks were ten years old and taller than both him and me. They were an impressive sight. […]. When you remembered…
Irene Hofmeijer
Aug 2, 2018
Will we wake up on time?
Will we wake up on time?
In 16th century France, a time considered as the rise of the modern era, Rabelais’s giant Pantagruel claimed that “Science without…
Irene Hofmeijer
May 3, 2017
Deconstructing the “S” Word
Deconstructing the “S” Word
The “S” word — “Sustainability”, has become the new buzzword for educators and parents everywhere. But how exactly can you introduce a…
Amishi Parasrampuria
Jun 19, 2018
WALDEN: A Call for Sustainable Consumption from the 1850s
WALDEN: A Call for Sustainable Consumption from the 1850s
Over 2000 years ago, Horace claimed about human kind that “we are but numbers, born to consume resources,” (Epistles 1:2:27). Throughout…
Irene Hofmeijer
Apr 19, 2017
Sustainability: a job to be done
Sustainability: a job to be done
In the last blog you read about the energy of the Mr. & Mrs. Kamphuis household: 1,345 kWh in a whole year. We could produce that…
Yori Kamphuis
Jul 31, 2018
8 of the coolest sustainable inventions in the world
8 of the coolest sustainable inventions in the world
Growing environmental challenges in the world have given rise to a new crop of eco-inventors that are developing ingenious solutions to the…
Amishi Parasrampuria
Jul 12, 2018
What I’ve learned from Al Gore — 3: on droughts, fires and food
What I’ve learned from Al Gore — 3: on droughts, fires and food
It was a privilege to join the three day Climate Reality training by Al Gore in Berlin in the end of June. Today part 3 of what I learned…
Yori Kamphuis
Jul 9, 2018
CITIES NEED TO BE WILD
CITIES NEED TO BE WILD
Every other day growing up, my mother would pick us up from school in rural Switzerland and rush us along the Route Suisse bordering Lac…
Irene Hofmeijer
Jul 17, 2018
Kolkata will be breathing the most toxic air this winters
Kolkata will be breathing the most toxic air this winters
Kolkata’s Air Quality has been making headlines all through November and this is alarming because winter is just the onset of winters…
Ajay Mittal
Dec 1, 2018
HAZla Por tu Playa: Mobilizing Citizens to Shape Policies
HAZla Por tu Playa: Mobilizing Citizens to Shape Policies
We were idealist. Twenty something year olds, inspired by theories of change, and, most of all, in love with the natural bounties of our…
Irene Hofmeijer
Mar 1, 2019
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