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
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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
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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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