While on a Seres community outreach trip in El Salvador recently, I had the very humbling experience of meeting someone truly inspirational and motivating. A 22yr old campesino (subsistence farmer) from a small community outside of Suchitoto, he is working to educate his community about climate change and sustainable living. His story of how he [...]

Hellooo! My name is Jasmin Wall, and I am the newest member of the Seres team. I am an Early Childhood Teacher from Byron Bay, Australia, and like most who meet Corrina I was truly inspired by the work that she is doing, and the project that she has created. The first day that I [...]

Since arriving back in Guatemala, I haven’t yet had a chance to provide a project update, and for those of you who live vicariously through the blog (we know who you are) I apologise for the lack of information. However, as they say: “no news is good news”, and even though I have only been [...]

In the last few months, I have had the pleasure of welcoming two new people to the Seres team – 2 people that, along with myself, now form the beginnings of the Seres Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee is one of the most important elements of a project such as this, and can make the difference [...]

The David Suzuki Foundation has just launched a new space for profiling “green” blogs, and their calling it The Blog Garden. It’s a space for people working on sustainability issues, enviro news, eco trends etc to share their work and nurture a new community around it…and most excitingly of all Seres is being profiled on their [...]

On the 10th November, 2009 President Nasheed from the Republic of the Maldives delivered a moving speech to the members of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (V11). In his speech, the President voluntarily committed his country to carbon neutrality by March 2010, telling a press conference that:
“We want to show an example to the world by [...]

It is Saturday night. The little numbers on the bottom right-hand side of my screen read 1:09am…again. It’s probably time I went to bed and got some sleep, as I have to be up again in 5 ½ hours, but I wonder how I’m going to shift gears: bring my brain down from trying to [...]

While one side of my brain keeps crunching the numbers, and working out that even if I process 25 photos a day it’s still going to take me at least 2 weeks to get these all done, the other side remains delighted at the images that are coming in….
So here are a few more to [...]

I know that when you change your lights over to energy-efficient globes and ride your bicycle to work, it’s easy to feel as though everything around you is just a little greener. But the reality is that we must act fast, which means a top-down as well as a bottom-up approach. We urgently need to [...]

While wars have been fought and won (or lost), famines and times of plenty have come and gone and depression, recession or economic crises have all affected various countries at some point in time, never before in our history as a human race have we faced such an issue that will affect the lives of each and every one of us.