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Think Eat Save…but do we have enough to eat leave alone to save?

By: Kennedy Wahome On June 5 th 2013, the world joined hands in marking the 41 st World Environmental Day under the Theme Think Eat Save. The message being put across was that we should think before we eat in order to save the environment through reduced food wastage, which FAO estimates at 1.3 billion tonnes of food globally per year. UNEP [1] estimates that global food production occupies 25% of all habitable land and is responsible for 70% of fresh water consumption, 80% of deforestation, and 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. But, in Kenya and the larger Sub Saharan Africa, the food is not enough to eat leave alone to save, with an estimated 20,000 children dying annually from food related complications. So what ails this region in matters food security? One of the main challenges towards realizing food security is poor food accessibility and distribution. Despite the fact that Sub Sahara produces adequate food to sustain its population, the distribution channels ar

The Carbon Cycle

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At the current climate change intercessional  in Bonn, Germany, strong emphasis is being placed on the need to reconcile science and politics in order to increase ambition in solving the climate change challenge. In this spirit, I would like to share with you a fun but highly educative video on the Carbon Cycle. We are all talking about the devastating effects of climate change, but how many of us can clearly articulate how climate change occurs from a scientific perspective? Enjoy! By: Kennedy Liti Mbeva

Last Planet Standing

By: Gladys N. Gatiba What proof exists to show that there was life on earth before we came to being…and by the way when did we come to being, the human race? Is it the time of Adam and Eve as the Holy Book says…is it during the evolution of man from homopithecus to homosapiens sapiens.. The world may have been a paradise and heaven like in our greatest grandparents time, they had adequate of it all, food, water etc, floods could have been a form of punishment during the time of Noah and drought and famine during the time of Moses…or were they birth…I meant population control methods of nature? Man begun experimenting…he discovered fire, then discovered the wheel, his brain and eyes gradually opened up to the world of opportunities, to his ability to innovate and charge the world, Acculturate it to his preference, then came colonization, industrialization, globalization etc came the rise of incurable diseases like cancers and HIV, men became their own enemies, growth and devel