People seem to love making negative remarks about societal breakdown and people’s lack of concern for others.
Cars are harmful to our health and to our environment.
There are plenty of great examples of improving the traffic situation around schools and making the children's lives better.
There is a common confusion around the subject of health.
The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.
What can we learn from the American disaster? First, that democracy isn’t easy.
It is time to greatly restrict the use of private motorised vehicles and make our cities more liveable.
If we have learnt nothing else in the last several months, it is not to underestimate the power of young people.
With the price of basic necessities going up yet again, it is no surprise that people are campaigning for a reduction in fuel price. Fuel is, after all, related to the price of transport, food, and other necessities—which is, in fact, precisely the problem.
Many years ago, a colleague at the United Nations invited me to watch a video of Marilyn Waring, an MP and economist from New Zealand, talking about economics.
Have you ever watched kittens, puppies, or other baby animals play? Running, chasing, jumping, nipping.
As children and others continue to die on our roads, we ought to reconsider just how highly we value our current traffic system.
Toilets do not, admittedly, make for a great dinner table conversation—though a few younger people might disagree.
Anyone who has recently started exercising in a public space has probably heard this question, or seen people ask it to their acquaintances. There is no need to specify the “it”—everyone knows that a diagnosis of diabetes is the most common spur for people to begin exercising.
On the first Saturday in November, Bangladesh observes the National Cooperatives Day.
In the past few generations, the world has changed extremely rapidly—and it is likely to continue to do so. Artificial intelligence threatens many of our existing jobs and even raises the question as to what need there will be for human workers in the future.
Growing up in a small city in the southwest United States, I thought I didn’t like cities. I loved hiking in the nearby mountains, from the top of which a grey haze hung over the city, which itself offered a few charms.
Today, on October 22, we celebrate National Road Safety Day. But why? Not why we care about safety—the devastating toll of accidents makes it clear why it is important—but why call it Road Safety Day? If we are using roads to travel from place to place, and we want to be able to do so safely, why not call it Safe Travels Day?
