Interview with Billy Lombe, an award-winning Zambian sustainability practitioner and environmentalist. What inspires you? I am inspired when I see activists celebrating their victories in fighting against injustices. I am inspired by our ability to connect our small efforts to create a meaningful Global change. I am inspired when I see communities thriving from the …
Producers of pollution should be held accountable Read More »
Interview with Betterman Musasia, a sustainable public sanitation advocate and the Founder and Patron of Clean Up Kenya Organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. Who is Betterman Musasia? I’m a sustainable public sanitation advocate based in Nairobi, the Founder and Patron of Clean Up Kenya and previously, the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. Established in 2015, Clean Up …
Interview with Davina Ngei, Communications Volunteer, The FlipFlopi Project Who is Davina Ngei? Haha…that’s a loaded question. I’m a Kenyan and an East African, concerned with the state of my country and my region. Over the last few years, I’ve grown an interest in pollution — the what, why, and how of it. Most …
We cannot recycle our way out of plastic pollution mess Read More »
Interview with Cameron Smith, Founder of Unwaste.io, UK based social enterprise. Tell me little bit about yourself. I was born and brought up in Scotland, UK. As a young child, the UK was going through a public services “crisis”, so littering and vandalism were widespread. Since then, attitudes to litter, and waste management systems, …
Volume of plastic waste produced in Africa annualy is growing exponentially Read More »
Climate change has resulted to extreme weather conditions that have triggered an estimated 30 million displacements all over the world with the global south being the hardest hit. Experts are warning that heating above 1.5 degrees Celsius will be catastrophic and are calling for rapid global commitments to tame global warming tide. In 2020, it …
Interview with Nelly Gesare SDGs activist and Founder Green Thing, a sustainable products company in Nairobi, Kenya Green Thing Sounds cool, what’s the inspiration behind it? Green Thing should have been a TV programme showcasing different conservation efforts in kenya, that was the plan. It was a supposed to be a platform to tell …
So much consumption brought by convenience brings a waste management crisis Read More »
Interview with Phyllis Omido, Winner Goldman Environmental Prize and Time’s 100 most influential person 2021. How has environmental injustice affected you? It made me an activist, without environmental Injustice I would be an average woman working and supporting her family. I have watched the effects of environmental injustice on the right to life, health …
Lake Nakuru continued flooding has led to displacement of hundreds of people from their homes in the neighboring Mwariki village. The Park’s main gate is is almost fully going under water and roads completely cut off in a situation never seen in recent history. The lake is receiving a lot of fresh water which could …
Plastic pollution is not a consumer problem; it is a producer problem. The Plastic Industry has been very efficient at perpetuating a flawed narrative blaming the consumers for the plastic pollution problem and running away from responsibility. If we are to effectively address the problem of plastic pollution, we must first acknowledge that it’s those …
My statement during the launch of 2021 PET Rubbish Report. Read More »
Nakuru used to be known as the flamingo town, but not any more. Thousands of flamingos have migrated to other areas. With the rise of population in Nakuru, flora and fauna in Lake Nakuru, a protected wetland and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, may soon begin to perish because of increasing levels of pollution from …
