Empower Yourself, Ignite Sustainability
Introduction: What is Soil? Soil Types and Their Properties Soil is the key component to plant growth. It provides nutrients for the plants to grow, protects the roots, and supports plant growth. Soil also provides a habitat for microorganisms that play an important role in decomposition and nutrient cycling. Soil is further broken into topsoil, … Read more
For many people, a vacation is the only time of year they’re able to travel. But with the rapid growth of travel as a luxury in recent years has come to a rise in traveler awareness about how our vacations affect the places we visit as tourists. As such, there are now more resources than … Read more
The rains are no longer predictable, and it has been a while since it rained in most arid and semi-arid areas. Livestock has no pasture, and water sources are all drying up. Nomads together with their livestock have to trek extremely long distances to get water and food. Sadly, sometimes they still don’t get lucky … Read more
Floods have been witnessed in a number of countries including Nigeria, and Pakistan, to name a few. People have lost their livelihoods, their homes swept away, livestock and wildlife affected, and reduced to depending on well-wishers. Most of the affected people live hand to mouth life. Contribute almost nothing towards climate change. Their carbon footprint … Read more
I had a chat with my friends at Greiner. Here are the links to the conversation and blog. Leave your comments and let us keep the conversation going. 🎧 Greiner Talks with Winnie Cheche – “Let’s fall in love with our planet!”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86sHIsjZyg Winnie Cheche ◯ People, planet, profithttps://greiner-talks.simplecast.com/episodes/greiner-talks-with-winnie-cheche “Let’s fall in love with our planet!”https://sustainability.greiner.com/en/lets-fall-in-love-with-our-planet/
It’s almost 5 years since Single-used plastics were banned in Kenya. Sadly, we still have waste from the before years. Surprisingly, we do have people who are still using these single-use plastics. Which has been highly blamed on the neighboring countries that are yet to ban it. I still feel that more awareness of why … Read more
The Internet continues to make information available for sustainable living. A little digging and practicing will help us head in the right direction when it comes to climate action. Here is a guide for SMEs in addressing their carbon footprint. https://www.retailmerchantservices.co.uk/sme-environmental-impact-carbon-footprint-guide/
Climate finance has been a pain to all of us. A hindrance to any progress. Floods, drought, and heatwaves, among others, will continue to be part of our lives. With them, lives will be lost, livestock will continue to die, and life will be extremely hard. Enough has been said about how the talking has … Read more
