To highlight R U Ok? Day, Ella Rigby shares her personal journey towards overcoming mental health challenges and improving her health and well-being.
Spring is in the air! This spring, why not get outside and do a spring clean in your local area?
Sustainable lifestyles are heavily dependent on enabling environments that are conducive to more sustainable choices. But who is responsible for creating such environments?
What if every country promoted electric cars like Norway, reforested like Costa Rica, promoted cycling like Holland, invested in renewable energy like Paraguay and ate a vegetarian diet like many people in India? Could this solve our climate crisis?
Single-use packaging is a major contributor to global plastic waste. Again Again founder, Nada Piatek, gives insight on how the reusable revolution can tackle the problem.
One-third of the Earth’s surface is in the care of Indigenous peoples and local communities. On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples what can we learn from them about living more sustainably?
This year our planet experienced the hottest June on record, raising the inevitable question: how can the world limit further world temperature increases? Many countries have already implemented a carbon tax. Is it time for Australia to follow suit?
It made headlines around the world when the much-hyped Barbie movie contributed to a world shortage of fluorescent pink paint.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. When movies or TV shows become cultural phenomena, toymakers jump on board. And that comes with a surprisingly large amount of plastic waste.
The issues of plastic waste in our seas and the effects on wildlife are catalysing major public concern. Part of the problem of plastic waste is the difficulty of reusing many types of plastics as the feedstock for new products. We also need stronger incentives to reduce plastic in manufacturing and design.
This month is Plastic Free July, an opportunity for us all to consider how we might reduce our consumption of single use plastic—as individuals, families, communities, and organisations—to combat the environmental challenge of plastic pollution.
When you reach for a bioplastic product, you’re probably doing it to reduce plastic waste. But for most other uses, it’s far better to just not use plastic at all. Plastic-free July is a great time to start.
When we talk about sustainability, it is easy to focus on the environmental issues and forget about the social sustainability challenges that exist. GoGenerosity is playing their part in combating poverty, making it easy for people to pay-it-forward to provide for those in need. Glimmer applauds initiatives like GoGenerosity and Charitabl.—all using tech for good.
Nobody chooses to be a refugee. So, this World Refugee day, let’s all think about how we can support the millions of refugees displaced around the world.
Today is World Blood Donor Day—a day to celebrate and thank voluntary blood donors around the world for their gift of blood, and to focus on action towards achieving universal access to safe blood transfusion.
Sometimes we need to hear good news to cheer us up, be optimistic and to keep fighting for the better future that we deserve. So, UK geographer and energy specialist, Neil Kitching brings us seven positive and uplifting stories from around the globe.
Imagine a smokefree society where tobacco does not kill more than eight million people globally. In a world first, New Zealand aims to create a smokefree nation by protecting young people from the many harms of smoking.
With over 40,000 species threatened with extinction, how can we work together and teach our children to protect our precious biodiversity?
Life would be very dull without bees. World Bee Day, on May 20, is a day to celebrate all things bee-related. Let’s see what we can do to protect our precious native bees.
How can we protect not just our own plants but plants everywhere? International Day of Plant Health is the perfect day to take steps in protecting plant health. Because healthy plants make a healthy planet.
Why are women who are employed by the tech industry quitting in such high volumes?
The second in our two part series on girls in ICT looks at the toxic tech culture and asks how women in tech could be better supported to halt the exodus.
What’s it like being a girl in tech? With International Girls in ICT Day on April 27, males are still far outnumbering females in the industry. IT student, Charlotte Herron, gives her take on what it’s like being a woman in STEM.
Mother Earth Day, 22nd April, is a perfect reason to connect with nature and teach our children to love the precious planet we live on. Why not try some of these fun gardening activities with your kids?
When looking at the consequences of poverty, we also need to ask what children themselves—the “kids who have” and the “kids who have not”—understand about the unequal world around them. Talking to our children helps empower them for a better, more equal future.
What distinguishes a company that makes “good” chocolate (chocolate untainted by child labour, modern slavery, deforestation and the overuse of agrichemicals) from one that merely makes chocolate?
We have a waste problem. Each year, Australians generate around 76 million tonnes of waste and spend over $17 billion to deal with it. How can we—is it even possible to—eliminate our waste?
“You can lack everything, except water”. Water scarcity is an increasingly serious problem in much of the world. Innovation is key. So, Moyobamba in Peru is using nature-based solutions in a bid to save its water sources.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 calls for urgent climate action to combat climate change. Climate action usually focuses on different mitigation — renewable energy sources, sustainable use of land, sustainable transport and adaptation — protecting coastal wetlands, decentralizing energy distribution, promoting sustainable agroforestry measures. However, when we talk about climate action, we often ignore one of the most important tools for climate action: Climate Change Education.
“DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”, the theme for this year’s UN International Women’s Day on March 8, highlights the digital gender gap and its impact on economic and social inequalities.
Read here how big tech companies are failing women on both sides of the screen: their employees and the users of their services.
Biodiversity has never been so high on the agenda of political and business leaders worldwide. We now have a new global commitment to “halt and reverse” the extinction crisis with some tangible targets. But time is of the essence.
With so much inequality and suffering in our world, and in our own country, it’s understandable that we are left feeling overwhelmed and powerless to make a difference. But even our small actions can have a big impact.
