According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. Forty out of every one hundred people in the world do not have their own toilet. Without toilets, individuals and their environment are at risk from contamination of fresh water and ground water because human feces contain infectious and often deadly pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, worms and parasites. Lack of sanitation is […]
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Ten things you can do for World Toilet Day
If you’re reading this and you have a toilet, you are luckier than the 2.5 billion people on this planet who lack access to improved sanitation. More than 1 billion people still face the indignity of defecating in the open (some people say more than double that), and women and girls risk being assaulted while going to the toilet. Every year on November 19, UN World Toilet Day is a […]
Derrick Jensen | A world of make-believe
We live in a world of make-believe. Think of it as a little game–the only problem being that the repercussions are real. Bang! Bang! You’re dead–only the other person doesn’t get up. My father, in order to rationalize his behavior, had to live in a world of make-believe. He had to make us believe that the beatings and rapes made sense, that all was as it should, and must, be. […]
Robin Wall Kimmerer | Learning the grammar of animacy
To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language. I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots in a soft hollow of pine needles, to lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it: the shhh of wind in needles, water trickling over rock, nuthatch […]
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