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Lynet Otieno

Mix science, local beliefs to tame climate crisis

The interest in agriculture is unavoidable, as it is the backbone of many economies. But how do we deal with nuances around certain foods or climate action?

By Lynet Otieno 2 months ago

Mix science, local beliefs to tame climate crisis

What's construction industry doing at climate fete?

What's construction industry doing at climate fete?

By Lynet Otieno 2 months ago

Africa, sing a new song after this Climate Summit

Africa, sing a new song after this Climate Summit

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

What if Maui in Hawaii was an island in Africa?

What if Maui in Hawaii was an island in Africa?

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

Youth must earn their place in renewable energy

The youth are already vocal against fossil fuel extraction in Africa, especially with East African Crude Oil Pipeline, Tilenga and Kingfisher in Uganda projects.

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

Youth must earn their place in renewable energy

Increase focus, action for PWDs in climate crisis

Just as PWD require more help during disasters, their representation in decision making tables locally and globally, as well as actual climate action within their ability must increase.

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

Increase focus, action for PWDs in climate crisis

Tackling global boiling needs wittier local effort

Collaboration between governments, NGOs and communities can pave the way for a brighter and greener future for Africa and the world.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Tackling global boiling needs wittier local effort

Yes, enhance food security with women in mind

Malnutrition of children and pregnant women is one of the immediate problems visible, and which may need urgent intervention. We saw this coming.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Yes, enhance food security with women in mind

Take hoes to museum and get machines to farm

Using improved technology to increase food production will help increase adaptation to climate change, tackle poverty, hunger, poor nutrition, gender inequalities, and even forestall conflict.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Take hoes to museum and get machines to farm

Walk the talk on viable solutions to new 'normal'

Even if government has measures to control logging, cartels who feed the endemic corruption beasts in Kenya, will not sleep.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Walk the talk on viable solutions to new 'normal'

Forest climate action must be for and by people

According to UNESCO, Kakamega Forest earns locals at least Sh100 million yearly, though including from illegal activities such as charcoal burning and poaching.

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

Forest climate action must be for and by people

'Her land, her rights' a remedy for climate crisis

As the world celebrates the "Day Against Desertification and Drought", let's test, taste and see how a woman can use "Her land, her rights" to tackle the climate crisis.

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

'Her land, her rights' a remedy for climate crisis

Why climate change pokes its nose in good times

Humans are continuing fossil fuels extraction that the UN's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has highlighted as the major cause of global warming.

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

Why climate change pokes its nose in good times

Simplify climate crisis to convince rural folks

The lack of understanding on why the cost of living is rising and what role climate change plays in the economy that is heavily reliant on rain-fed agriculture, is dangerous.

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

Simplify climate crisis to convince rural folks

How biodiversity loss affects our mental health

Human beings relate, consciously or unconsciously with nature. We are created to love, and expect love, the unspoken sometimes holding the best of places in our hearts.

By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago

How biodiversity loss affects our mental health

Nairobi can champion climate action creatively

If you were in Nairobi in the 1990s, you know how different things are today, from transport to housing, pollution, population density, solid and waste water management.

By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago

Nairobi can champion climate action creatively

Don't make Mother Nature misdirect her anger

As children of Mother Earth, many are the nations paying for the sins of their siblings responsible for global warming.

By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago

Don't make Mother Nature misdirect her anger

Victims of fossil fuel damage deserve payment

Unlike big businesses, the most vulnerable populations, their property and businesses are not insured.

By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago

Victims of fossil fuel damage deserve payment

Let's make the best out of climate change action

The opportunity in the current flooding disasters lies in tripling efforts to harvest the rain water now.

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

Let's make the best out of climate change action

Choose banks that invest in our planet

Researchers have periodically looked into banks' role in global warming, and just last week, a report dubbed "Banking on Climate Chaos 2023" revealed reluctance to make things right.

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

Choose banks that invest in our planet

Growing trees is divine, no matter your faith

Trees are precious! There are moments I have sat alone under a tree and felt like I had company. The likes of whistling pine even "sing" when it is windy.

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

Growing trees is divine, no matter your faith

Scary IPCC projections must not dampen spirits

One of the most convincing justifications for the choice of the man with one leg in fossil fuels industry and the other in renewable energy sounded like setting a 'thief' to catch a thief.

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

Scary IPCC projections must not dampen spirits

Demand climate justice as you do human rights

African organisations must enlighten people on climate change, including opportunities in addressing the existential problem

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

Demand climate justice as you do human rights

Your big or small action determines water quality

March 21 was World Forest Day. People planted trees to, among other reasons, re-equip depleted water towers and invite rains again. Then came Wednesday, March 22 World Water Day.

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

Your big or small action determines water quality

Critical link between rain and quality of milk

Milk is a source of nutrition to a large vulnerable population consisting of infants, children, pregnant women, invalids, and the elderly.

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

Critical link between rain and quality of milk

Pray yes, but climate crisis calls for right policy

The government must increase pace on just transition to renewable energy, invest in capacity building on the problem at hand for maximum community-led and nature-based solutions.

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

Pray yes, but climate crisis calls for right policy

Entrust women with climate action, they know better

Many African cultures place women in the kitchen, where they worry about the wellbeing of the entire family even at their weakest moment.

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

Entrust women with climate action, they know better

Stop taking advantage of Africa's fossil fuel dilemma

One justification for new fossil fuel projects in Africa is desire for infrastructure, quick returns and economic growth, and the fact that the West developed through fossil fuels.

By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago

Stop taking advantage of Africa's fossil fuel dilemma

Link between malaria 'headache' and climate crisis

In Kenya, statistics show that 2011 (at 11.12 million cases) and 2018 (with 10.88 million) were the years the disease hit worst between 2010 and 2020.

By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago

Link between malaria 'headache' and climate crisis

Let households build a love relationship with trees

Every target person in the grassroots has to be enlightened on the many benefits of planting and growing trees to enable them voluntarily join in the efforts.

By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago

Let households build a love relationship with trees

Avoid climate anxiety despite campaigns brutality

Like the humming bird that ignored other endowed animals that could have put out the fire faster, the activists carried water in their little beaks and tried to put off a fast consuming fire.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

Avoid climate anxiety despite campaigns brutality

EAC can integrate in more aspects than trade

Despite the developments in the EAC in terms of trade and movement, a lot more needs to be done through policy frameworks through enhancement of the region's infrastructure.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

EAC can integrate in more aspects than trade

Long-term solutions key to addressing drought

When Africa hosted the COP27 last year, there was hope that the suffering many endure due to climate change,

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

Long-term solutions key to addressing drought

Mother of all climate evil thriving among faiths

Fossil fuels cannot be kept in the ground if religious institutions, like banks and insurance firms, still give capital to investors in dirty energy.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

Mother of all climate evil thriving among faiths

Ignorance worsening effects of climate change

Climate change is real, but we must not allow preventable deaths after disaster.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

Ignorance worsening effects of climate change

Mr President, let's JazaMiti before nature explodes

And so, Mr President, now that you seem to know that nature butters our bread, please help JazaMitiHaraka so that we do not engineer our extinction.

By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago

Mr President, let's JazaMiti before nature explodes

We should not look at climate crisis in isolation

When crop failure occurs due to unpredictable weather, importation of maize is inevitable and the controversial GMOs find their way to our tables.

By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago

We should not look at climate crisis in isolation

Shift to clean cooking to save lives and trees

A lot of cooking will be taking place in this festivity using wood. Here lies one source of in-house pollution that also creates innocent agents of deforestation.

By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago

Shift to clean cooking to save lives and trees

Celebrate little 2022 gains in climate justice push

Globally, several grassroots people and organisations participated in the Faiths for Climate Justice grassroots events, calling for protection of the Earth.

By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago

Celebrate little 2022 gains in climate justice push

What happens in Garissa is not staying there

Clearly, the climate crisis does not end with killings and losses in the likes of Garissa drought and flooding

By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago

What happens in Garissa is not staying there

Egypt's COP27 must not be a sham for Africa

The 30-minute restricted anti-fossil fuels demonstrations by activists in common areas may have done little to draw the attention of polluters to the moral obligation.

By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago

Egypt's COP27 must not be a sham for Africa

Africa is lost, damaged by historical injustices

In Kenya, drought has claimed livestock and game in the parks. How will the Tourism sector sustain itself and the economy; the work force and the heritage! How much is heritage?

By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago

Africa is lost, damaged by historical injustices

Stop making Africa a fossil fuels dumping site

The unending calls for behaviour change to spare Africans the suffering due to climate change is what now needs to take a moral dimension.

By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago

Stop making Africa a fossil fuels dumping site

No war in Africa, it's climate crisis at its peak

A few children try to utilise any little found strength to play, but soon they are overcome and lie under whatever shade is available.

By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago

No war in Africa, it's climate crisis at its peak

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