Many of us despair in the current system, knowing how close we are to collapse. Every unnecessary single-use plastic item, every flight...

For this weekly, after having been quiet for a few weeks, I thought to ramble on without purpose about a few thoughts and feelings...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 1948, Costa Rica disbanded their army because their Defense Minister at the time proposed the idea to spend more on education and...

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,...

Namibia's Minister of Finance Calle Schlettwein released the annual budget last week. It is no secret that we are in a difficult...

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...

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...

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...

Have you ever heard of unlearning? Our world views, our mental models, are shaped by our education, but also by our personal experiences,...

Back in the day, the radio, much like social media today, was revolutionary because it allowed information to be transmitted quickly and...

[Image Source (quote added based on Dana's Meadows assumptions by humanity): https://www.redletterchristians.org/root-humanity-messy-reca...

[Image Source: https://sciencing.com/raw-materials-plastic-bottles-5747796.html] I have written about plastic before. Plastic and water....

I had a few ideas about this Monday's Weekly. The top contender was a critical piece about Rachid Sardarov, the Russian billionaire land...

[Image Source: https://www.indietraveller.co/overtourism-what-can-travelers-do/] Two years ago my partner and I visited Barcelona,...

[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...

[Image Source: Tweeted by Integrated Land Management Institute of Namibia, Namibia University of Science and Technology....