Global Awareness Archives

Mar 03, 2022 Plastic Pollution – Challenge for Life Below Water and Life on Land

Posted at 10:32h In Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Water - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

[caption id="attachment_11965" align="alignright" width="300"] Endangered Hawksbill Sea Turtle caught in a discarded net[/caption] The Challenge The plastics revolution launched in the 1950s has led to the cumulative production of 8,300 million tonnes (MT) of plastic products and vast quantities of plastic pollution (6,300 MT). According to a...

Happy Hazards of the Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Feb 14, 2022 The Animal Bride – A Valentine’s Day Tale?

Posted at 09:10h In Articles, Global Awareness, Human-Animal Interaction, Tales of WellBeing - By Dr. Boria Sax

A finely dressed young woman on a swing ascending toward the forest canopy kicks one leg, tossing her shoe far away. This is a deliberate act, not an accident. Her expression is one of careful concentration. Her eyes are fixed on the shoe, which she...

Jan 31, 2022 Protecting the Oceans: Tristan Case Study

Posted at 12:32h In Articles, Global Awareness, Ocean Protection, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Tristan da Cunha archipelago, a small group of volcanic islands in the middle of the South Atlantic, is characterized by the surrounding, largely undisturbed, temperate marine ecosystem. The largest island, Tristan, at 98 km2, has a population of approximately 260 permanent inhabitants and is...

Jan 31, 2022 Social Progress Index

Posted at 12:26h In Articles, Global Awareness, People Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing News has carried several stories about global happiness (e.g., World Happiness Report), subjective well-being, and happiness research centers. Happiness (and subjective well-being) research is booming, but these are not the only ways to measure global well-being. The Social Progress Imperative is a US-based non-profit...

Father and son | Photo credit: Avalon_Studio

Dec 31, 2021 Back to the Future and a Sustainable World

Posted at 12:56h In Articles, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

As we bid goodbye to 2021, the world continues its struggles with Covid-19 and its new variants. It is only natural to focus on the present and tempting to reflect on periods in the past – a concept encapsulated in the "back to the future"...

Together we give. Giving Tuesday | Nov 30, 2021

Nov 29, 2021 Support the GDC on Giving Tuesday

Posted at 11:38h In Education - Humane, Global Awareness - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

Tuesday, November 30th is Giving Tuesday, which is a global day of generosity unleashing the power of radical kindness to transform communities and the world.We launched the Global Dog Campaign (GDC) to end street dog hardship and homelessness across the world. The campaign aims to partner...

Coal fire with wind power in Germany | Photo credit: Eisenlohr,

Nov 01, 2021 Climate Change and COP26

Posted at 11:31h In Articles, Climate, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

The Letter from the President for September 2021 addressed climate change. This Letter is a follow-up to the previous Letter in September, but we revisit the topic because its importance and gravity to humanity cannot be overstated. We hope to provide a brief primer on...

Antarctic Glacier | Photo credit: Bernhard Staehli

Oct 04, 2021 Climate Change, Food Systems, and Health Impact at the United Nations

Posted at 12:03h In Articles, Food & Agriculture, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Three significant gatherings address various aspects of climate change, and global limits started in September and proceeded through early November. In September (21 to 27), the United Nations (UN) held its 76th annual meeting (also known as the General Assembly) in New York. During this...

Oct 04, 2021 Dasgupta Review Revisited

Posted at 11:59h In Articles, Environment, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In May, WellBeing News published an article alerting readers to the Dasgupta Review (Review) publication addressing the economics of biodiversity. We suggested that the Review could become a classic along with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring but have just come across a significant critique of the...

Aug 17, 2021 Animal Welfare at the United Nations

Posted at 11:50h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan

In 2018, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP – headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya) signed a two-year agreement with a Kenyan animal protection group, the Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW – founded in 2006), that included a stipulation that ANAW should organize animal welfare conferences...

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