Human beings are coming up with all sorts of ingenious ways to walk gently on planet Earth.
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Human beings are deeply dependent on motorized machines to move themselves around. Trillions of these things now choke a vast and growing network of so-called “roads,” getting into deadly accidents and polluting the planet’s atmosphere.
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Human beings can’t decide whether to cherish trees or chop them down. This seems to be the take-away message in a tenth transmission we’ve just picked up from a far-off planet in crisis.
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Dar es Salaam … City of Peace on Tanzania’s Indian Ocean coast. Driving a car into, out of or around the city, or commuting in one of the Tanzanian capital’s jam-packed dala-dalas, is anything but a peaceful enterprise — although the people of Dar are exceptionally friendly. Dar Rapid Transit (DART) is a dream now rising from the drawing board. Listen to this audio.
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Young gang violence is endemic in the Central American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador, and its tentacles have spread north. Some would say the process has worked in reverse fashion — as GPM correspondent Victoria Fenner reports.
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The development of rights for disabled people in industrialized countries like Canada, Germany, Japan and the U.S. is one of the more encouraging trends of the past twenty or thirty years – a sign of inclusiveness in this age of division and disparity. Imagine what it’s like to be a disabled person in a country like … Bolivia.
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Here’s a dispatch we’ve received from the Tanzanian capital of Dar Es Salaam – City of Peace – a metropolis known for its astonishing traffic jams. Urban planners in Dar are working on a new mass transit system, that will hopefully make everyone’s lives and workday much more peaceful … in theory. Josephat Mwanzi reports.
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The city of Curitiba, in southern Brazil, is famous among urban planners for its innovation and rational development, with a reputation for being highly livable and very sustainable. It was one of the first cities to market itself as “green” in a 1980s advertising campaign. And it is.
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Mumbai … the world’s third most populous city. This little neck of land dangling in the Arabian Sea is a Mecca for India’s corporate giants. Real estate prices have skyrocketed. But almost half of Mumbai’s eighteen million residents are poor and the real estate crunch is squeezing them out. Nowhere is the clash between global real estate forces and traditional residents more evident than in Asia’s “largest slum”: Dharavi
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An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.
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