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WHY MURCHISON FALLS SHOULD ALSO GO!
No one is losing sleep over how much mercury, lead, sulphur and other heavy metals are in Lake Nalubaale (‘Victoria’) alone thanks to the factories, a flower farm, a brewery […] More
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UNITING CLIMATE JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION, ENVIRONMENTAL PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMACY IN ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY BUILDING
In 2011, I wrote an article titled “Security in the Nie Basin in the 21st Century: From Military Security to Environmental Security” which was published by ABETO Publishers in a […] More
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A THOUSAND YEARS AND BARELY COUNTING
Written by Imeldah Kondo Hello. My name is Balla and I have been around for about 1000 years. As I tell you this story, I do realize the age difference […] More
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ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC LEARNING IN UGANDA
You may or may not have heard of the idea of environmental public learning. More commonly we talk of environmental learning as if it is an individualist undertaking aimed at […] More
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL THREAT OF OIL PALM GROWING IN UGANDA: THE CASE OF BUSOGA.
Like virtually every project or programme in Uganda, oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) growing started in Uganda because the President Tibuhaburwa Museveni committed a lot his political time and energy […] More
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ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE FOR LEADERS AND POLICY MAKERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
I was nurtured in the biological, ecological and environmental knowledge fields, and spent many years nurturing generations of knowledge workers and learners in these dimensions. However, to date, I have […] More
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Silent Suicide
by Tanisha Mehta I am guilty. I am guilty of burying my head in the sand and pretending that things aren’t that bad. I think the term is referred to as […] More
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RETHINKING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF UGANDA’S DIVERSE ECOLOGIES.
In Uganda environmental conservation is done as a technical rather than an ecological and cultural undertaking. The unity of human communities and nature is continuously abused. The reason for this […] More
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Turning Kampala’s Trash into Treasure
The Rise of Composting Imagine a Kampala where food scraps and garden trimmings don’t end up clogging landfills, but instead transform into rich, black gold: compost. This isn’t a far-fetched […] More
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Protests Won’t Save Us, But Adaptation Will
Why Uganda Needs a New Climate Blueprint “We are copying a foreign playbook that brings handcuffs instead of solutions. It is time to stop protesting global problems and start building […] More
