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Meet Fidelis Balakasi, Wiser.org member and a coordinator for the WiserSouthernAfrica group! He is the Founder and Technical Advisor of uMunthu Centre for Environment and Education (UCEE), a not-for-profit based in Malawi that addresses and promotes the stewardship of the environment using uMunthu philosophy. uMunthu (also known as Ubuntu) focuses on people’s allegiances and relations with each [...]

Candia Lea Cole is an artist, poet, eco-visionary and eco-lifestyle educator, as well as a whole foods cookbook author specializing in eco-sustainable cuisine. She founded a business called Eco-Learning Legacies that provides educational resources to people who want to live eco-intelligently and become feminine eco-leaders in their homes and communities. She explains, “My work highlights [...]

All around the world, members of the Transition movement are taking up the call to combat climate change and free their communities from oil dependency. Nowhere is this more apparent than on Wiser.org, which hosts dozens of groups created by Transitioners all around the world who use the platform to coordinate their efforts. This spring, [...]

Photo credit: Saad Faruque By Laura Ross-Perry This year, Earth Day celebrated it’s 43rd anniversary on April 22nd. Across the globe, people gathered to pay respect to the planet, discuss the current state of the earth, and talk about ways in which we can improve how we treat it in order to also improve the [...]

By Laura Ross-Perry WiserEarth is blessed to have an amazing international team of volunteers, Editors, and WiserLocal organizers who dedicate themselves each day to social activism and the Wiser community. The week of April 21-27, 2013 has brought us three very important occasions: International Earth Day, Wiser.org’s 6th birthday, and National Volunteer Week in the [...]

Wiser.org Editor Sil tells us about how food cooperatives are creating more sustainable communities and benefiting the environment. Join this growing global movement and check out a co-op near you! By Sil Gabriell A food cooperative or food co-op is a food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative. This means the decisions regarding the production [...]

In addition to celebrating Earth Day and Wiser.org’s 6th birthday, we will also be celebrating the tremendous work of our hundreds of volunteers by making this week Volunteer Appreciation Week as part of National Volunteer Week, which officially takes place from April 21-27 in the United States. Volunteers (both past and present) who have worked [...]