Large-scale projects may sound beneficial and grandiose but whether they actually provide the necessary benefit is questionable. Recently, a large Kenyan power company, Lake Turkana Wind Power, released a plan to construct 350 wind turbines on leased land… Read More

‎”Sustainable intensification” of agriculture is another buzz phrase at the COP 17 climate conference in Durban. No one really has defined what it is. Like “climate-smart agriculture” it could be taken to mean a lot. The glass half… Read More

A growing trend to electrify rural areas is emerging due to entrepreneurs finding creative ways to implement solar technology. There are family solar units, which are kits placed in homes used to power lights and small devices. Some… Read More

Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011): Nobel Peace Laureate; environmentalist; scientist; parliamentarian; founder of the Green Belt Movement; advocate for social justice, human rights, and democracy; elder; and peacemaker. Brighter Green colleague and advisory board member. She lived and worked… Read More

Spectators and athletes at the London Olympic Games next summer will be able to patron what will be the busiest and biggest McDonald’s restaurant in the world. With four outlets at the Olympic Park in Stratford, London, the… Read More

What’s For Dinner? screened today at the Green Film Festival in Seoul, Korea, and will be showing again on Monday (23rd), 4 pm local time. If you can’t make it to Seoul for the screening, check out this… Read More

It’s International Women’s Day’s 100th anniversary celebration today. It’s a good opportunity to reflect on the sometimes astonishing strides taken by women around the world toward gender equality–and the equally astonishing lack of true equality. The Guardian published… Read More

At the end of last year, I wrote about how South Korea had been impacted by foot and mouth disease, which resulted in the culling of hundreds of thousands of cows and pigs. Since then, the situation has… Read More

If I were not a vegetarian, for the lunar New Year my parents would have cooked me a feast of all varieties of meat and seafood. I was born and raised in a big city in China, and… Read More

On January 12th, the world took a moment to reflect on the one-year anniversary of the devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck the island nation of Haiti and killed thousands. It had been over a century since an… Read More