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Rural women are on the front line of the climate crisis. It is time the world acts like it.
This year's World Environment Day theme "From awareness to action" sounds urgent. But for the millions of rural women living alongside logging concessions, industrial agriculture and mining sites across Africa urgency is not a theme.
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Plastic water bottles: reuse yes… but choose carefully to protect your health and the planet
At Greenpeace Africa, we strongly encourage reducing single-use plastic and transitioning to sustainable practices such as refilling and reusing. These simple actions help cut plastic waste and reduce the pollution that threatens ecosystems, particularly in Africa.
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When veggies become a fancy treat – thanks, climate change!
When fresh fruits and veggies turn into fancy luxuries, you don't even need to scroll through the news; just take a sec to reflect on how the climate crisis is messing with our daily lives.
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Book excerpt: Education for girls is essential for climate justice
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate is fast becoming a formidable voice in the climate movement. She has shared with us an excerpt from her new book, A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis, in which she discusses the impact African women and girls can have on solving…
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Congo forests: Indigenous communities at the heart of the process
Either we make tropical forests the giant carbon sink that will help save the planet, or we destroy them and release the estimated 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide from these forests and, hello...climate bomb!
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A Global South perspective on COP26
What I saw come out of COP26 was quite frankly a death sentence for our people and the Indigenous communities across the globe. Political leaders and industrial lobbyists, instead of safeguarding our future, used their power to keep dirty business as usual.
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#SameColonizersDifferentShip.. Seismic Surveys on the Wild Coast..
Only a few days after the Glasgow Climate Crisis meeting was concluded, we had the Amazon Warrior dock in Cape Town harbour. The Amazon Warrior is owned by Shearwater Geoservices, the company Royal Dutch Shell appointed to conduct surveys on their behalf.
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#RealZero video series shows how offsetting is the biggest book keeping trick of the century
A video series to highlight the dire consequences of falling for the world’s biggest polluters’ promises to “offset” their climate emissions hopes to inspire people to force decision-makers to take real climate action
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Live blog: Kenya cannot be the plastic dumping site for the USA
On this Black Friday, don’t sell Kenya as a plastic bin to the USA, President Kenyatta. We need a plastic free country.
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Del’s Imifino/Bhaji
Imifino is a traditional KwaZulu Natal dish usually served with phuthu (ground maize meal, another traditional Zulu food). Imifino is a isiZulu collective name given describing most green leafy vegetables, such as spinach and the various species of amaranth.