Adán Vez Lira, a prominent defender of an ecological reserve in Mexico, was shot while riding his motorcycle  in April. Four years earlier, the renowned activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead in her home in Honduras by assailants taking direction from executives responsible for a dam she had opposed. Four years before that, Cambodian forest and land activist Chut…
The time has come: join us this weekend at The Virtual Conscious Festival! The stage is set for our inaugural virtual event and we are pumped. Here are the highlights you DO NOT want to miss.
We’ve said all along this is not just another online event. And we mean it. This is an…
It's World Environment Day today. According to the UN, this year, it's "Time for Nature". As the world shifts and responds to humanity's actions in the Anthropocene, making time for nature seems more needed now than ever. For Singapore, the world-famous Garden City, nature is all around us. But do we have any idea how…
The Virtual Conscious Festival is a three-day immersive experience bursting with life-changing talks , experiential workshops , and #LittleGreenSteps . Here we share more about what to expect from our EXPO and the amazing brands you can shop throughout the weekend.
As many of you will know, we always try to…
The GAIA World Tour is set to live stream 30-hours of non-stop content on biodiversity featuring scientists, artists, activists, and citizens. Here’s everything you need to know.
If you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably missed us wittering on about the Virtual Conscious Festival (get your tickets here, folks). But there’s another virtual…
This week: a different kind of environmental news round-up. It's World Environment Day tomorrow. Does that have anything to do with racism? Yes. And so does the climate crisis. How? Let's talk about it.
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Since 1974, we've celebrated World Environment Day…
Some fires won't die. They survive underground during the winter and then reemerge the following spring, as documented in places like Alaska. They're called "overwintering," "holdover," or "zombie" fires, and they may have now awoken in the Arctic Circle — a fast-warming region that experienced unprecedented fires in 2019. The European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service is now watching…
The pandemic has been a trigger point for long-overdue change and big fashion houses are finally waking up. Here, contributor Paulina Tylus shares her thoughts on the future of fashion in a post-COVID-19 world and asks: is the fashion industry as we know it obsolete?
Let’s quickly look back at the history of fashion.…
A new report from a local environmental initiative and politically nonpartisan campaign Greenwatch reveals that the incumbent Singaporean government "has not walked the talk" on climate action. The report looks at various categories including climate ambition, equity, energy, collective action, nature, and more. The result? On a scale of -90 to 90, it scores an…