by Deborah Phelan | Jun 12, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, TIme Capsule, Water, Youth and Climate Change
The reason they make sounds at all is basically because glaciers contain bubbles, which make sounds. We mentioned that a glacier is a big body of ice, and the number of bubbles in one is just enormous—there are billions of bubbles inside. In contrast, when you have an...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 8, 2017 | Climate Change, Food Security, Gender Equity
It’s International Women’s Day and while many are asserting their inherent value by participating in “A Day Without A Woman’ events, small scale female farmers in the developing world don’t have the luxury of taking a day off from their...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 1, 2017 | Climate Change, Climate Justice, Global Goals, Ideas, UN SDGs, Youth and Climate Change
Reporting both live and virtually from Bonn, Germany, The Global Festival of Ideas launched its three day revolutionary “playable conference” today with word that it’s not too late for you to chime in. The “Playable Conference” is mixing...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 13, 2015 | Climate Change
In an unprecedented papal encyclical, Pope Francis is calling for a economic and ethical revolution to wage battle against climate change. The letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics will be released in five languages on Thursday, June 18 and will expound...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 16, 2015 | Children, Climate Change, DRR, Food Security, Global Health, Youth
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, speaking at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan, yesterday emphasized the need to “embed Disaster Risk Reduction into the very DNA of our sustainable development framework.”...
