Sustainable Solution

A mix of high-resolution data, advanced research, participative interactions with local communities and supporting natural and spiritual heritage. This is the starting point to design resilience strategies and plan more sustainable solutions for mountain tourism, a sector that accounts for 15–20% of global tourism. For centuries mountains around the world…

Gracefully personified “Our mother earth” has a deep meaning for the name, it means the planet earth, in which millions of different life forms thrive and for us, it becomes a mother figure. Ironically, humans have not been able to take care of their own mother, and most people who…

I am not a linear person. Like my curly hair, I loop and circle different interests, various hobbies, and activities. Even my career has straddled disciplines rather than being devoted to a single area of expertise. This overlapping, layered expertise (Renaissance Woman or flagrant dilettante??) is where I feel most…

Whether or not an individual is conscious about the fact that the planetary crisis is the crisis of humanity; humanity creates and contributes directly to the crisis of other life forms and species; these perishing practices are impacting our lives. And this impact will multiply with greater force in the…

Partnerships are supposed to be mutually beneficial arrangements. Everyone involved should get what they need out of it. The relationship humans have with the earth started out as a good partnership. The earth provided what we needed to survive and we took care of it. However, things changed and now…

“Seaspiracy,” a new documentary from director Ali Tabrizi, brings much-needed attention to the welfare of our oceans. We are rapidly moving past the tipping point — and urgently need to change how we approach protecting the ocean. The Netflix documentary is igniting a new conversation around the mistreatment of the…

Developing services towards sustainable, connected transportation When we think about the future of transportation, there is no doubt it is electric. And we might be tempted to think that electrification is as simple as swapping all vehicles for electric ones, but it isn’t quite like that. At tb.lx, …

One night, Mary returned home late from work to the sight of her children and their father sitting around a fire. Her heart sank at the look on their faces. It was one she had seen all too often. “When I saw them, I knew they were hungry. My husband…