By Guest: Matt Rump My name is Matt Rump and I own a company called CycleRecycle, you can check it out at www.cyclerecycleuk.com. Fundamentally, we are an Independent Bicycle shop with a difference. The difference being that we recycle bikes and parts, which in turn keeps bikes and parts out of landfill. This is a article about how I use a [...]
By: Lova Rakotomalala An article by BuzzFeed that recently went viral with over 1.6 million Facebook shares, highlighted 21 pictures that will restore your faith in humanity. Unfortunately, Africa and Africans were absent from the piece. Despite efforts to change existing narratives, the African continent is still widely known as a leading recipient of international aid and the place where international NGOs come to ‘save’ the [...]
By: Laura Stump Salvador Urbina is straight out of a fairytale. Towering, mist-coated mountains surround a valley of colorful churches and houses, interspaced with tropical flowers and fruit trees that give shade to community members who stop to visit with one another on their way down the road.And trust me—there’s always someone to visit with in Urbina. Most days, I take a [...]
Every year in the lead up to Mother’s Day, analysts and pundits are busy calculating the holiday’s economic impact. This year, consumer spending is expected to reach around $18.6 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. But maximizing the real economic value of women needs to be seen as a core strategy of the recovery and part of the [...]
The United States isn’t broke; we’re the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these and so many other ways, it just isn’t working. But rather than invest in [...]
By: Tetyana Bohdanova The average Ukrainian woman is highly educated, yet earns about 30 percent less than the average man in a similar position. She is more likely to become unemployed or not get hired at all because she might get pregnant. Even if she has no children, she is still carrying out the majority of household duties, which prevents her career development. She [...]
By: Juliana Rincón Parra The recent investigation done by journalists of Plaza Publica in Guatemala has uncovered how government authorities, although legally having to prevent child labor, allow children under 14 years of age to work in their cane fields, which is a physically demanding and dangerous work. Sugar Cane Pieces by Chris McBrien CCBy In the article Child labor and exploitation in Guatemala’s sugar Alberto Arce and [...]
By: Adriano Rangel The government of Mozambique is ceding 6 million hectares [pt] of land to Brazilian farmers (this corresponds to two-thirds of the landmass of Portugal) to grow soy, cotton and corn in the northern provinces Niassa, Cabo Delgado,Nampula and Zambézia. The idea is to draw on the Brazilian experience in theCerrado (Brazil’s savanna), where since the 1960s the agricultural frontier has advanced into the interior with [...]
By: Juliana Rincón Parra This post is part of our special coverage Indigenous Rights and Forest Focus: Amazon. An hour long documentary shows the traditional lives of indigenous people in the Amazon, and how their subsistence lifestyle is threatened by petroleum exploitation and monoculture of renewable energy sources like palm oil. In Amazonia, masato o petroleo (Amazon, masato or oil) [es] we get a glimpseof the lives [...]
By: Juliana Rincon Parra The International Museum of Women‘s online exhibit on women and the economy, features slideshows, podcasts, videos and essays on women from countries such as Sudan, Denmark, Philippines, USA, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina and how they view issues such as poverty, business, family, rights, money and much more. Economica, IMOW’s online interactive exhibit sets out to explore [...]
