Not just any old trash: recycling in the Caribbean
They’re everywhere: old cans, bottles, plastic containers, car bodies, refrigerators; in the gutters, on empty lots, in gullies, by...
Get it while it’s hot: Barbados’ solar energy revolution
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of...
The heat is on: global warming and the Caribbean
Caribbean countries are only too familiar with the ravages of climate change. Hurricanes yearly batter shores, floods wreak havoc and...
Sun, wind and water: climate change in the Caribbean
“All we used to get here was razor grass, bamboo, cocorite palm and of course, fire,” says Akilah Jaramogi, advancing with energetic...
Feeling hot, hot, hot: climate change and the Caribbean
Global climate change and its effects have moved from scientific theory to present-day fact, and the islands of the Caribbean, as well as...
Keys to the coral kingdom: protecting Caribbean reefs
A pinhead. Worth US$375 billion. Annually. This is the magical mathematics of coral: a microscopic organism, invisible to the naked eye,...
Global Warming and the Caribbean
For the Caribbean, there was much at stake when the Earth Summit — the United Nations Conference on Environment and...
Island Beat (July/August 2006)
Fighting Off The Seas Joggers pause for a breather. A Hindu family offers flowers in a morning ablution ritual. An old man sits on an...
