I write to experience life twice, in the moment and in retrospect
Encouraging cycling amongst women isn’t enough, we also need to enable it. Bike seats, while advancing new materials and designs, have historically been the same for men and women. In an active travel world designed with women in mind, ergonomically-appropriate saddles should respond to different women’s anatomies and be easily available in bike shops and communities everywhere.
Read MoreFor so long, favelas have been a byword for gang violence, drug dealing and deprivation. A collective of women writers, poets and ‘artivists’ of Rocinha are rewriting their timeworn story. In place of fear and despair, their chapter headlines… potential and hope.
Read MoreNature-positive companies are gaining momentum. They include and transcend conventional and incremental corporate social responsibility and ESG strategies. They challenge us to move beyond mere damage control in our economic activities and ask: what if we not only minimize harm but actively improve natural ecosystems that support our businesses?
Read MoreOne would not expect to find a masterful tutorial in regenerative thinking and engagement in a book titled What if Women Designed the City? Yet that is exactly what May East delivers. She invites the reader into a journey through a dynamic, multilayered, multidimensional living matrix that requires continually weaving inner and outer worlds..
Read MoreIn people-centric Curitiba being smart isn't simply about integrating the latest technologies into urban infrastructure. Celebrated for its innovative public transportation, waste management, urban food production and entrepreneurial spirit, Curitiba’s cumulative success demonstrates how urban systems can co-evolve with social and ecological systems.
Read MoreEdinburgh has set an ambitious target to become a net zero city by 2030. This means that by 2030, the city will remove the same amount of greenhouse gases that it releases into the air. The iconic George Street is set to play a significant part in enacting this strategy. Alongside the active travel plans, trees will be planted for the first time. Which species will be planted, why does it matter?
Read MoreA year ago, Glasgow City Council passed a motion declaring Glasgow as the UK's first feminist city in terms of city development. The intention to make Glasgow a city that works better with and for women and girls originated from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). Head of Planning Sarah Shaw believes that good design for women is good design for everybody.
Read MoreSer humano é estar conectado com tudo que respira e transpira. A forma como conectamos é o território da cooperação. Mas a cooperação sozinha talvez não consiga criar a transformação necessária para o redesenho da presença humana no planeta vivo.
Read MoreNature positive companies are gaining momentum.. Going beyond the sustainability paradigm – viewed as a stepping stone but not enough – they include and transcend conventional and incremental corporate social responsibility and ESG strategies by placing nature at the heart of business decision-making in parity with financial returns and human wellbeing.
Read MoreEducators are invited to grow sensitivities and competences to develop lesson plans where meaningful encounters can take place between children and other forms of life, providing a continuous and enriching experience for students of all ages to nurture love for living things. When this happens, the notion of living systems can be internalised not as an intellectual idea, but as a way of being nurtured from child to adulthood.
Read MoreWorld leaders in New York yesterday adopted a high-minded new declaration underscoring the need to reenergise the SDGs — the 17 targets aimed at ending world poverty and acting for climate change.
While some SDGs are going backwards the intersection between SDG 5 and SDG 11 is moving forward. This was purposively stated in the session “What if Women Designed the City?’ hosted by UNITAR at the UN Headquarters marking the launch of my book of the same title.
Read MoreThe 2023 SDG Summit, which mark the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda and a new phase of accelerated progress towards the SDGs has started! It is bringing together political and thought leaders from governments, international organisations, private sector, civil society, women and youth and other stakeholders in a series of high-level meetings.
Read MoreIn nature there is no true wastage. Ecosystems operate in cycles — plants grow in soils, animals eat plants, insects and other coprophages consume dung and the recycled nutrients enter the soils. Adopting a true ‘we are nature’ biocentric worldview may inspire us to rejoin this closed loop system, whereby one actor in the system’s waste, is really another’s treasure. Plastic pollution is just one piece of the puzzle. The more our ecosystems thrive, the more we thrive.
Read MoreOur increasing longevity is stretching the boundaries of life experience, unleashing a quiet cultural transformation, and challenging our resolve to support everyone in adding years to their lives and life to their years.
Read MoreRecent reports tracking progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, contain sobering conclusions: the SDGs are seriously off track. Indeed, we have even regressed in some SDGs targets. What are the questions that need to be addressed?
Read MoreMy thesis identified 38 leverage points on how urban planners, policy-makers, practitioners, and communities could intervene in urban planning systems, so that cities of the present and future can become greener, more inclusive, liveable, and poetic.
Read MoreThere is a strong intergenerational argument for establishing an ethical-stewarded sovereign wealth fund: enabling future generations to share in the economic prosperity that exploiting natural resources creates when the resources run out, and building the vital savings needed for them to weather the coming climate vulnerabilities.
Read MoreEsta canção entoada nas comunidades de aprendizado dos anos 2000, se tornou realidade nesta madrugada no leste de Santa Catarina. Foi quando minha filha ‘stuck’ num posto de gasolina da estrada que liga Porto Alegre a Florianópolis (devido a eventos extremos decorrentes das mudanças climáticas) foi 'salva' por um amigo atemporal- Glaico Sell.
Read MoreThe potential of integrating the concept of rewilding into 20-minute neighbourhoods is immense. From providing food and habitats for wildlife and enhancing green corridors to link together fragments of nature in the neighbourhood, to enabling people to develop stronger connections, recognise nature’s importance and foster a sense of co-evolving mutualism with the natural world.
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