In the last few years, with the world’s focus on sustainability and climate change, it has become clear that fashion is an exploitative industry. From its toll on water resources to the growing piles of clothing ending up in landfills; but most of all, the welfare of the people who make the very clothes that...
Welcome to yet another series of our Climate Joy reports. This is the first edition for this month and reviewing the stories in this week’s roundup, May is looking pretty positive already. Anyway, without further ado, here are the joyful climate news that’s making our heart sing. Literally. 1. London Marathon Shares Edible Water Capsules...
In August 2013, Mark Post, a professor of vascular biology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands unveiled to the world the first lab-grown burger. Mark Post had succeeded in untying the Gordian knot of using stem cell research to grow meat for consumption. Before then, the thought of lab-grown meat wasn’t much more than a...
In this week’s ‘Climate Joy’ series, we celebrate the efforts of governments and organisations taking sustainable strides. From Washington to Quito, people across the globe are increasingly striving for a better future for the environment and our unborn ones. 1. Washington State Commits to 100% Renewable Energy Another American state makes it to our Climate...
The 2019 Oscars marked a first time for many things. Ruth E. Carter was the first black person to win the Award for Best Costume Design and Hannah Bleacher became the first black person to win the Award for best Production Design. From dressings and gender to the oscar nominations down to the lack of...
Today is Earth Day, so… Happy Earth Day! Would you like to hear something strange? When I set out on this Climate Joy series, I honestly thought I wouldn’t have enough content for even the second piece. It was a scary idea from the start and I was so worried and with no clue on...
A little over a week ago the 2019 Ethical Fashion Guide was published by Baptist World Aid Australia. As the name suggests, the report is a comprehensive review of the activities of Australia brands in line with ethical practices and sustainability. The Ethical Fashion Guide highlights which Australian brands are making positive strides and meeting these...
I was about fifteen the first time I realized the impact elections and the government could have directly on my life. I couldn’t even vote at the time but my parents could. My statesmen had massively voted in a little-known candidate from a very unpopular party as the State Governor and about two months into office,...
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the biggest economies in the world are the United States and China. Along with these two countries are other industrialised countries like Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom. With trillions of dollars in GDP, these countries sit at the top of the world’s economic pyramids and along with...
This week, cities and countries take centre stage as governments make progress towards a better climate. From Oslo to Chicago, there is good news on the horizon. By way of a reminder, Climate Joy is a new EWP series which aims to celebrate positive climate news. Each week, we will curate a summary of news...
I started writing about the environment, climate change and the eco-community about two years ago. In that time, I have come to observe that climate news is often moody and sometimes outrightly depressing. The news always shares gloomy details either on how the temperature levels are increasingly rising, lists the animal species we are losing...
Abuja, Nigeria: When I was a kid, my siblings and I would play a game with our clothes labels, a guessing game we labelled “guess the country”. One person would hold out a number of clothes and another would try to guess the countries where these clothes were made. The clothes we possessed were mostly...