Empower Yourself, Ignite Sustainability
On a planet where climate change continues to be seen as a future problem, it’s important to take care of yourself. Don’t push too hard for the betterment of our planet and neglect your health. That includes your mental health. Be hopeful, and do your part. Remember to acknowledge any positive progress, influence wins, etc. … Read more
Thanks to all the supporting comments, messages, and emails. Hope is what we are not losing, we may be down and crawling at the moment. But all shall be well, and it’s worth the fight. Spent Saturday morning at the Mama Fauzia Children’s Center filling the gap left during our last planting. Connected with amazing … Read more
A few months ago, my dream of having gardens at orphan centers was made doable. Thanks to the One Movement Fund, which provided the needed funds. While Young Muslims Association connected me to orphan centers. Unstable donations Most of the orphan centers rely on well-wishers and donors for their basic needs. Limited space makes it … Read more
How are you all doing? Are you doing okay/not okay, or living one day at a time/ surviving? A lot has been living. I haven’t been doing that well. From crushed hopes, ugliness unfolding around climate issues, lots of talks around climate change that made reliving them more painful, Kenyan wildlife suffering through droughts with … Read more
There has recently been a spark in the going clean and fossil-fuel-free or divesting from faucet fuels awareness campaigns. So much so, that it has become more of a movement. The notion centers on the impact of carbon fuel emissions on the environment and climate. Financial advisers from all around the world are now advising … Read more
As I was traveling to Mombasa, I thought it was going to be just mum, sis, and me. But, hey, that was my plan but not what the future had for me. Strangers who turned into the best buddies and best birthday gifts turned the events in a different direction. They brought all the fun, … Read more
It’s important to note that we have countries that have free-ranging livestock that provide food for the occupants. And that doesn’t make them unconscious of emissions from livestock farming, they do and almost don’t contribute to it. We haven’t cleared forests or huge pieces of land for livestock farming, but still, practice nomadism and in … Read more
COP is here with us again. COP26 should be the springboard that should push everyone in the right direction. At this point, all know what needs to be needed. Solutions to be embraced continue to be invested by individuals and few corporates that care for our planet. Too many and excellent policies continue to be … Read more
We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption. Yuval Noah Harari
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. – … Read more