Empower Yourself, Ignite Sustainability
Have you ever watched a child eat a vegetable they grew themselves? It’s a different kind of meal. Slower. Prouder. That moment is the heart of Kitchen Gardens for Kids, The Eco Advocate’s project setting up drip-bucket vegetable gardens at schools and children’s centres. From Garissa to Voi, children are now eating from gardens they … Read more
Kenya is chasing one of the most ambitious tree targets on the continent: 15 billion trees by 2032. At Mazingira Day in October, the Environment Cabinet Secretary said the country had planted two billion trees. That is real momentum. But a number planted is not a number growing. The only tree that matters for the … Read more
How many litres of free water ran off your roof the last time it rained? Did any of it stay? For most homes and schools, the honest answer is “almost none.” We watch water pour off iron sheets and into the drain, then pay for water in February. This season, with above-average short rains forecast … Read more
Have you noticed how fast we forget drought once the rain starts? A few weeks of grey skies and suddenly the dry months feel like someone else’s story. They’re not. Only a year ago, November 2025 was unusually dry across most of Kenya, the month that is normally the peak of the short rains. This … Read more
Halfway to 2030. So, how are we doing? Remember the promise the world made in 2022? To protect 30% of our land and oceans by 2030? To halt and reverse the loss of nature? Well, we are now halfway there. And the world has gathered to check its homework. Right now, governments, scientists, Indigenous Peoples … Read more
If you work in conservation, community organising, or biodiversity finance, is COP17 on your radar? Do you know which decisions could change your funding between now and 2030? And are you sure the communities you work with will feel any of it? Here’s the truth: COP17 isn’t background noise. It’s the negotiation that will shape … Read more
Have you heard of COP17? Do you know how it’s different from the climate COPs we hear about every November? And why should a farmer in Taita Taveta, a ranger in Amboseli, or a student in Nairobi care what a room in Armenia decides? Because the decisions made over the next two weeks will shape … Read more
Have you heard of the Great Green Wall? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. It is one of the most ambitious restoration projects on Earth, and it’s African-led, yet it rarely makes our headlines. Last week it got a serious boost. So let’s do this one “Did you know?” style. Did you know… …the Great … Read more
How many times this year have you read that artificial intelligence is bad for the environment? Data centres guzzling electricity. Cooling systems drinking water. Carbon emissions rising with every new model. Those concerns are real, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. Back in 2019, I wrote that even our internet use has a carbon … Read more
Do we treat drought as an emergency, or as something we could have seen coming? When was the last time you heard the word “disaster” used for a dry season? We use it for floods. We use it for landslides and fires. But drought? Drought usually gets called “hard times” until the day someone finally … Read more
