Breathing walls to rooftop farms: Cities get creative for a greener future
Oslo, Norway Thomson Reuters Foundation From “breathing walls” that recover energy and filter air to urban farms on rooftops, cities around the world are experimenting with creative ways to become carbon-neutral, aiming to make no contribution to global warming. The C40 network of cities tackling climate change announced the 15 winners of its Reinventing Cities competition […]
POSTCARDS: THE TREE HELPING KENYAN FARMERS BEAT DROUGHT AND POVERTY
KAGONDU NJAGI, in an article first published by Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
TURNING DESERTS INTO FARMLAND: HOW AN AUSTRALIAN AGRONOMIST HAS EMPLOYED AN ANCIENT FARMING PRACTICE TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF MILLIONS
DAVID ADAMS speaks to World Vision’s Tony Rinaudo, named last week as one of the winners of this year’s “alternative Nobel Prize”, the Right Livelihood Awards, about his passion for turning deserts into farmland…
SIGHT-SEEING: TREES AND THE BIBLE – OFFERING HOPE AND UNDERSTANDING
BRIAN NIXON, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at what the Bible says about trees…
POSTCARDS: AS THE DEAD ARE BURIED, TREES RISE IN ZIMBABWE’S CEMETERIES
JEFFREY MOYO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Harare on how cemeteries are helping to address a deforestation crisis…
As fruit trees fall, a hunger threat looms in Kenya
Thomson Reuters Foundation When Leah Mutembei was growing up in Kajuki, a village in central Kenya, most farms were dotted with avocado and mango trees. “But now they have all gone,” the 32-year-old maize farmer said from her homestead, gesturing to the barren land nearby. “We had to cut them to make firewood and charcoal,” […]
GREENSIGHT: THE ARAVAH, PROVIDING SHADE “BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON…”
ALVIN JOHNSON looks at what the Bible says about the aravah, identified as a willow…
GREENSIGHT: THE TE’ASHUR, AN EVERGREEN TREE OF BLESSING
GreenSight returns as ALVIN JOHNSON, in an excerpt from his ebook, Biblical Flora, looks at what the Bible says about the tree known as the te’ashur, likely to be a member of the cypress family…