The BBC news sub-headline made my heart sink. I knew what was coming. I couldn’t get away from it being shared – first on Twitter while I was procrastinating between…
A new study found that in 2020, civil rights have deteriorated in almost every country in the world. Civicus Monitor found that many governments used the pretext of COVID-19 restrictions…
Taiwan’s ‘open source, open government’ movement has been key to the country’s success in containing COVID-19. Taiwan was one of the first countries to detect the spread of COVID-19 in Wuhan, when a post on a public bulletin board was heavily upvoted.
While many businesses are closing – either temporarily or going into permanent administration – communities and individuals are taking on a larger role in providing key services, usually for free. …
This was first published in the magazine ARIANA, Summer 2019, pp.114-119 He walked past the former ship-loading bay and climbed up the seawall to the walkway above, setting his…
In an initial move towards tighter gun control by the government in New Zealand, Christchurch held a gun collection drive, the first of 250 planned collections to happen after the Christchurch…
Last week we asked you, “Who do you want to play a role in shaping your future community?” This was the third week of a two-month series exploring the empowerment…
At a school run by the Askhar Foundation in India, students pay their student fees with plastic waste. Each child brings up to 25 items to school each week. By paying the school fee in…
“There is actually no point in going to school if our world is going to die,” said one student as she marched through the streets of Brussels. On 24 January, more than…
According to the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), hate crimes in the US have increased for the third consecutive year. In addition to reporting the rise in…
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has created 75 ancient Redwood tree clones using Redwood stumps as old as 3,000 years. Founded in 1994, the California nonprofit group managed to create a…
An estimated 50 million litres of paint is wasted in the UK every year. Community RePaint, a UK wide reuse network, takes those leftover and half-empty cans of paint many…
