“One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain. So hit me with music, hit me with music…”” goes the song by Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley. So if with music we feel no pain, is it also possible that we could fight climate change with music? Music has been used as a tool for advocacy and change since it was first invented. Throughout history, all sorts of … [Read more...] about Translating Climate Change into music: the Caribbean way
When hospitals cause harm, what can we do?
When we think of a hospital, we think of a place where our pains and illnesses can be soothed and treated, and where many lives can be saved. However, we do not think of hospitals as potential generators of negative environmental impacts that could affect the health of our community. A hospital that does not have, at minimum, adequate management of its solid waste, … [Read more...] about When hospitals cause harm, what can we do?
Haiti: Better Environmental and Social Management for Caracol Video
By Serge Troch (Vous pouvez lire cet article en français ci-dessous) We have been working in the North of Haiti for several years now, and our experience has helped us understand that supporting government agencies is critical for long term environmental and social sustainability. This can be achieved through a combination of both training and the creation and design of … [Read more...] about Haiti: Better Environmental and Social Management for Caracol Video
Project Evaluation and the Role of Discount Rate
On the role of discount rates when evaluating infrastructure projects, and what happens when a project’s benefits – environmental or those positively affecting a region’s natural capital – come about in the long term. In an unprecedented act of generosity, and in order to promote reading the blog, the undersigned have collected all we had in our pockets to give it away to the … [Read more...] about Project Evaluation and the Role of Discount Rate
Is Climate Change part of a Political agenda?
Climate Change was a central topic in President Obama´s recent State of the Union. In harbinger fashion, Obama’s SOTU gave a wealth of examples to demonstrate that climate change is an opportunity to innovate technologically and politically, and to reap significant and durable economic benefits. During the 1950s of Soviet Sputnik satellites, he said, “we didn’t argue about the … [Read more...] about Is Climate Change part of a Political agenda?