Circular Water Economy

Achieving a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic:

First and foremost, we must recognise that many countries around the world are not only recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. In my country of Zimbabwe, we are still recovering from a devastating cyclone that occurred in 2019, which pre-dates the pandemic.

Extreme weather phenomena such as rising temperatures and the increasing frequency of droughts and floods are affecting lives and livelihoods in Africa. According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, five African countries ranked among the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather in 2019: Mozambique (first), Zimbabwe (second), Malawi (fifth), South Sudan (eighth), and Niger (ninth).

Call for a green, just economic recovery agenda in Hong Kong

Nature-based Solutions Mitigating Emissions and Protecting Water Quality

Introducing the vital and wonderful work of the Action for the Climate Emergency...

The climate emergency is here. The world as we know it is running out of time and the window for small, incremental action has closed. Instead, we need an emergency-level response to avert climate catastrophe—and leaders with the courage and mandate to take bold action. Our critical window of opportunity to sound the alarm is ever-narrowing and the time to act is NOW.

We are meeting this moment with boldness and have changed our name to Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) to better reflect the full breadth of our work. Our evolved mission is to educate, inspire and support young people to lead the fight for their future. We achieve our mission by reaching tens of millions of young people with our programs each year, training a new generation of leaders, amplifying youth voices to shift the narrative, and increasing diverse youth participation in our democracy. 

ACE was founded in 2008 with the visionary (and at the time fringe) belief that to halt a global crisis, the climate movement needed the engagement of young people. Back then, we were told again and again that young people were not a priority because they couldn’t or wouldn’t vote, and couldn’t be organized. How times have changed. With the failure of our leaders to act and an explosion of youth activism and visibility within the movement, our outlying belief in the power of youth is now common knowledge—and to many, our best source of hope.

We believe that ACE has a critical role to play in growing the power of the movement by amplifying the voices and values of young people. When young people call for climate justice, they do so with the moral authority of a generation that will have to live with the choices our leaders make today. Youth voices are not the only ones needed in the global climate movement, but without the power of youth, we simply cannot win.....One thing is clear: we have no time to lose. Leah Qusba, ACE Executive Director
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https://acespace.org/

Thank you Asmaa Hanafi for sharing your journey together with the Green Society in Alexandria on raising environmental and sustainability awareness to grassroots and in using art to empower youth to understand the impacts of climate crisis and find solutions collectively to restore our earth and achieve the SDGs.

Check out this blog post to learn more about this initiative!

The Wisdom of a Newborn (Earth) Day...

The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. Thomas Aquinas

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. Maimonides

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Oliver W. Holmes

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind! Mehmet Murat ildan

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. James Allen

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. Paracelsus

Before you speak, learn; before you get sick, prepare the cure. Before you are judged, examine yourself. Ben Sira

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Will Durant

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. Lao-Tzu

Look to the old, they are worthy of old age; they have seen their days and proven themselves. With the help of the Great Spirit, they have attained a ripe old age. At this age the old can predict or give knowledge or wisdom, whatever it is, it is so. Black Elk, Oglala Lakota

If you wish....you can be wise; if you apply yourself, you can be shrewd. If you are willing to listen, you can learn; if you pay attention, you can be instructed. Stand in the company of the elders; stay close to whoever is wise. Be eager to hear every discourse; let no insightful saying escape you. If you see the intelligent, seek them out; let your feet wear away their doorsteps! Ben Sira

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens