How dare you A Message for our Leaders
Many of us despair in the current system, knowing how close we are to collapse. Every unnecessary single-use plastic item, every flight...
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Aug 28, 2019
Stories and feelings from recent travels Sudan, Mexico, Ethiopia, China and Vietnam
For this weekly, after having been quiet for a few weeks, I thought to ramble on without purpose about a few thoughts and feelings...
Jul 3, 2019
Industrial Corridors as a Backbone of Namibia's Development (by Detlof von Oertzen and Justine Braby
After my last weekly, one of my readers emailed me and asked me to give a concrete example of how development in Namibia could be...
Jun 23, 2019
Growth and development are not synonyms
I submitted this piece the other day to the High Level Panel on the Economy as a point of departure for a discussion around what kind of...
Jun 2, 2019
What kind of Namibia do we want
The High Level Panel on the Economy (HLPE) was commissioned in March of 2019 by the Office of the President with the main aim to advise...
May 14, 2019
Timber...or living forests
My language is vastly unable to express how I feel about what we, humans, are doing to our home, our fellow Earthlings. The depth, the...
May 14, 2019
Risking the rise of authoritarianism in Namibia
In 1948, Costa Rica disbanded their army because their Defense Minister at the time proposed the idea to spend more on education and...
Apr 7, 2019
The kind of businesses we should be supporting an example from e-waste
The picture you see above is from Agbogloshie. You may have heard of it. A roughly 4 square kilometer scrapyard in the heart of Accra,...
Apr 1, 2019
Some thoughts on Namibia's Annual Budget
Namibia's Minister of Finance Calle Schlettwein released the annual budget last week. It is no secret that we are in a difficult...
Mar 4, 2019
Let's talk water...again
Almost every day for the last month we have stared at the cloudy skies with hope that they will break and deliver us with much needed...
Feb 25, 2019
Lines in the Mind, Not in the World (by Dana Meadows)
For the new week, I thought I would share with you two stories and pieces of wisdom. One is Dana Meadow's passage from the 'Global...
Feb 18, 2019
Growing and spreading the Games for the SDGs
As most of you know, Progress Namibia started and has been leading the "Games for the SDGs" series, which has been running since the end...
Feb 11, 2019
The necessity of unlearning in education
Have you ever heard of unlearning? Our world views, our mental models, are shaped by our education, but also by our personal experiences,...
Jan 21, 2019
How social media has been used to fuel propaganda
Back in the day, the radio, much like social media today, was revolutionary because it allowed information to be transmitted quickly and...
Jan 14, 2019
Will technology save us from collapse
[Image Source (quote added based on Dana's Meadows assumptions by humanity): https://www.redletterchristians.org/root-humanity-messy-reca...
Nov 12, 2018
Plastic. Let's talk.
[Image Source: https://sciencing.com/raw-materials-plastic-bottles-5747796.html] I have written about plastic before. Plastic and water....
Oct 29, 2018
Wisdom from Dana Meadows Places to intervene in a system
I had a few ideas about this Monday's Weekly. The top contender was a critical piece about Rachid Sardarov, the Russian billionaire land...
Oct 21, 2018
What kind of tourism do we want for our country
[Image Source: https://www.indietraveller.co/overtourism-what-can-travelers-do/] Two years ago my partner and I visited Barcelona,...
Oct 14, 2018
Risking human existence for a few years of profit
[Image Source: www.polyp.org.uk] So I have been trying to fly less, and when I do fly, I try and fly as direct as possible. You would...
Oct 8, 2018
Updates and decisions Land reform in Namibia - A Paper to the Land Conference
[Image Source: Tweeted by Integrated Land Management Institute of Namibia, Namibia University of Science and Technology....
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