Knowledge

*by Natalie Bethel, working at @the_IDB Country Office in The Bahamas This summer, I travelled to Detroit, Michigan for a Global Shapers forum: ‘Shape North America’.  It brought young ‘Global Shapers’ in the USA, Canada and the Caribbean together, with a goal of ‘inspiring and convening innovative systems thinkers who believe in sustainable, socially just, creative, and … [Read more...] about CHANGING THE MISCONCEPTION ABOUT HUMAN WASTE: IT IS VALUABLE NOT VILE

Are we missing the point? Few summers ago my wife and I went to California, to the Napa valley, where inevitably we met a lot of wine enthusiastic. Between glasses, we were amused in learning fascinating jargon related to wine tasting. “Wine descriptors”, they call it. We learned that a wine can be velvety, laser-like or angular (an angular wine is like putting a triangle in … [Read more...] about WATER: A “VOLUPTUOUS” RESOURCE

Though I appreciate art in all of its possible expressions, I am a practical guy who likes useful things. I do not know where I keep all the silver spoons that were given me at my 2002 graduation (read: useless), but I still use the camping gear that was given me in the same occasion (read: useful). To me the line between useful and useless is clear. Such a practical guy I am. … [Read more...] about I DO NOT HAVE AN IPHONE6 BECAUSE I AM A MARRIED MAN

by Ikuko Kunitsuka, @BIDagua contact working with the Caribbean We use lots of water every day but have you thought about how much water do you actually consume every day? … [Read more...] about How much water do you actually consume every day?