Category Archives: Youth

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13

Pradically All the Time is out! http://bit.ly/cb0ShI ▸ Top stories today via @maguimartinez @sdv_duras # Al Jazeera: Kenyan youth map their home (another amazing MapKibera video). http://ow.ly/3R3GR # Sunday Nation (kenya): Youth unemployment and Egyptian lesson http://ow.ly/3R7YS # The Standard: We ignore Egypt’s chaos at our own peril. http://ow.ly/3R3jG # Pradically All the Time is…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30

Generation Green launches. Cash awards up to $12,500 for “young” ideas for greening Vancouver. http://ow.ly/3GOFs # Pradically All the Time is out! http://bit.ly/gAKp0r ▸ Top stories today by @andrewsimms_nef @virtualactivism # I ♥ the next web @TNW … awesome site. # Parking with the dead .. http://ow.ly/3INz1 # @samroddick good luck! will we be able…

Youth, Technology and the Vote in Nigeria

Repost from ICTworks Great to see this process going on, driven by the Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps, and sorry to see that it has some bumps. Its as well interesting to see how social media – in this case a blog and twitter – are monitoring this process. Great to see a Usahidi site…

Engaging Youth to create Sustainable Cities

I am very proud to be a Senior Associate with Sustainable Cities, an international development agency based out of Vancouver, Canada. Last year we were able to do some outstanding work with UN-HABITAT in advancing the issue of youth and cities through the publication of the World Urban Forum Dialogue Series: Youth in Cities, and…

Pradical Tweets for 2010-12-05

Pradical Tweets ‘Oceans of poverty, islands of wealth’ – Africa warned of ‘slum’ cities danger as its population passes 1bn: http://ow.ly/3glxc # Pradically All the Time is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://bit.ly/cb0ShI (271 contributions today) # RT @DougSaunders: love it! The documents were burned onto a CD-RW disguised as a Lady Gaga…

The Soul of the Earth Summit, 1992 – 2012

20 years is a long time since the Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) -  and many other community members worked with Severn Suzuki and the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO)  in their preparations for Rio. Severn got her start keynoting  many of the EYA conferences – conferences which we ran from 1989 – 93 and regularly brought…

Youth in urban sustainable development

Excerpt from UN YOUTH FLASH, Vol. 7, No. 11, November 2010 * For more information on youth and urbanization go to the UN-HABITAT website. Today, half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a number expected to increase to sixty percent in the next two decades. The trend of urbanization is especially profound in…

Update: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s win … Did Multiculturalism Play a Role? An interview with Al Jazeera

The following is an interview by Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan with Calgary’s Mayor Naheed Nenshi and activist Tarek Fatah. The interview focuses on whether Canada’s multiculturalism policies helped Nenshi get elected, and the merits of that policy nationally and internationally. One of the better discussions on this topic that I have heard. Part I Part…

Of Graffiti, Youth and Space #3 – Favela Painting, the video

 This is an update to the blogpost I did on Favela Painting, a graffiti program initiated in 2005 in the slums of Rio by artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn. Here is a video that brings more insight to the project from CNN. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Growing up in Cities (Canada)

A few years back I was honored to be able to participate in a Growing up in Cities (Canada) project focused on engaging youth in cities. GUIC (Canada) was based on the very successful international GUIC projects that have been run globally for over 2 decades. These projects, based on the initial GUIC project undertaken…