Mapping biodiversity in Namibia through Citizen Science
What is citizen science you say? It is a wonderful concept that has been gaining popularity in recent years which is basically the...
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Feb 19, 2018
It's not only about the honey, bee
Ever thought about the role of bees in the food that you eat? Bees have played their part in either pollinating the vegetables and fruits...
Feb 12, 2018
Namibia looking at developing environment statistics for national planning
Today a workshop gears off to discuss the implementation of environment statistics in Namibia. After the workshop, bilateral...
Feb 5, 2018
The 'big push' transforming the world's energy systems (Guest Author Alan AtKisson)
As I’m sure you have noticed, renewable energy is taking the world by storm, driven by rapidly falling prices. Ever wonder how that...
Jan 15, 2018
We are sucking the oxygen out of our oceans
To state the obvious, oxygen is fundamental to life. Carbon emissions (thats on us) have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide by more...
Dec 12, 2017
Namibian Journal of Environment Launched
Last week, the Namibian Chamber of Environment, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, and the Namibia University of Science and...
Dec 4, 2017
Thoughts from the Wellbeing Economy Festival
As you know from last week's story, the whole For Progress Namibia Project team attended and participated at the WE-Festival last week in...
Nov 20, 2017
World Scientists' Warning to Humanity A Second Notice
I was going to write about something else this week, when this extremely important news came out and I cannot think of anything more...
Oct 16, 2017
Universities as a catalyst for global change
How important are universities in advancing sustainability, and in fact, the Sustainable Development Goals? Very. In Namibia, there are...
Sep 4, 2017
Life shapes and preserves life on our Planet
Travelling on the train towards Czech Republic, I would like to share a thought with all of you on your Tuesday morning. The air we...
Aug 27, 2017
Stories from Sweden Pushing the sustainability agenda
On my way out of Sweden today on the train to Copenhagen, passing the rolling forests and red painted wooden houses of the countryside....
Aug 25, 2017
Tackling Framing Effects of Dominant Knowledge Systems in Transformations
And we find ourselves this week in Stockholm, Sweden, representing our work on For Progress Namibia at the Resilience Conference,...
Aug 13, 2017
Plastic Bags. Let's stop.
You drive anywhere close to a town in Namibia, and you will undoubtedly see non-biodegradable polythene bags stuck to a bush, or blowing...
Jun 25, 2017
Let's talk about Real Economic Transformation in Africa
This week, acclaimed author and political economist Lorenzo Fioramonti is joining us in Windhoek. Progress Namibia has organised various...
Jun 18, 2017
What is a Blue Economy
Our fifth National Development Plan has recently been launched and through it we aim to achieve inclusive, sustainable and equitable...
Jun 14, 2017
Trump Fails the World
Progress Namibia was asked to contribute to developing a civil society response from Namibia to Donald Trump pulling out of the Paris...
Jun 4, 2017
As Trump smacks the climate, world must do better (Guest Author Lorenzo Fioramonti)
As Donald Trump’s America drops out of the Paris Agreement, it’s high time to ask whether conventional approaches to sustainable...
May 21, 2017
Towards wellbeing indicators in Africa A Case Study from Namibia
Some of the work from our project 'For Progress Namibia' has been published in the leading popular academic journal Solutions. With the...
Apr 3, 2017
What type of growth do we want Stories from Bhutan and India
When you travel around Bhutan, a small country squeezed in by the Himalayas on one side, and the two giants India and China on the other,...
Mar 22, 2017
The great kidnapping of water by plastic
The other day I was having an interesting conversation with a friend in Nairobi. We were, at the time, complaining about the use of...
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