Among friends we are “the Mangos”: a group consisting of two Colombians and two Norwegians working with sustainable development and youth empowerment. Our project seeks to show the diversity within the field of sustainable development and to inspire you to act for sustainability in your local community. We are collaboration project between CISV Norway and CISV Colombia.
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Global health in development politics
Children and youth’s health is indeed an investment in the future. Globally we have the largest youth groups in history. At the same time health threats such as tobacco, alcohol abuse, overweight and risky sexual behavior is increasing. Because of … Continue reading
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For those of you who know me a little will imagine that this blog post pretty much summarizes my academical interests and my career background since I am a biologist-to be and I also started studying art in university (didn’t finish it though…)… However despite some people thought I was crazy for mixing these topics, I can show you here one example on how these two are mixed…
Climate change is one of the main topics in sustainable development, people are currently using them as synonyms even though they aren’t. However, climate change is indeed a problem that humanity is facing, because all around the world we have noticed horrible periods of droughts, floods, food scarcity, water pollution, etc.. all of which are caused by differences in the climate. With this in mind, there is a general concern regarding how to stop it, how to make people aware and what will be the real consequences of it.
Besides tons of academic research and scientists showing global trends of climate change, the problem translates into to something deeper. There is a need for making people know that horrible things are happening and will happen if we keep on behaving the way we do. Many projects have been achieved, but here is one of them: the 350 project.
The 350 movement is a campaign to mobilize a global climate movement. Since it was created by Bill McKibben it has used art as a way to show the problem to the world. He even wrote an essay called “What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art,” Several artists and designers have developed ideas of incredibly ambicious projects that have been noticed by many people. But why the number 350?? 350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere.
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