On 28 August 2026, we hosted the team from Green Empowerment, who shared their experience of community-led rural infrastructure. Their central message was simple: building a water system is only half the job, and the harder question is who keeps it working. Green Empowerment works with in-country partners to build community-owned clean water and renewable energy systems across Asia, Latin America and Africa. The organisation works with locally grounded partners and communitie

Reflections on David Kimali's Presentation to realife's Just Landscapes Working Group. realife is greatly thankful for David sharing his insightful learning with our collective. In Kenya's South Rift, pastoralist communities have long shared their landscape with lions, leopards and other large carnivores. It is a relationship built on generations of adaptation, negotiation and, at times, tension. But drought is changing the terms of that relationship, and not for the better.

A Just Landscapes blog by Angela Chappel The Green Learn 2 Earn project is a practical research programme focused on articulating and developing sustainable, tangible pathways for youth into the green economy. The project aims to develop and support viable occupationally directed learning pathways, from the ground up, for youth, in nine Green Learn 2 Earn pathways. The Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University together with UNICEF, DUCT and GroundTruth are in