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Everything You Need to Know About Our 2022 Street Conference 2022

At SustyVibes, we love our street conferences! Our bespoke project to sensitize Nigerians on environmental protection and sustainable living using the local language. This year, our street conferences will happen simultaneously in seven Nigerian states and will commemorate World Clean Up Day which happens every year on September 17th. World Cleanup Day (WCD) is […]

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Highlighting Nigeria’s quest for sustainable development

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With rising temperatures, droughts, and desertification in the north and increased precipitation, flooding, and rising sea levels in the south, Nigeria already faces the physical threats of climate change.

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Nigeria’s climate thermometer

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Climate action in the Nigerian space is one that has been widely characterised by apathy and lip service. This post looks into the current plans and the fate that lies in a future riddled with challenges.

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SusTEAParty: Susty Party Abuja 2022

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Sustyvibes is a youth-led community of changemakers working passionately to make sustainability relatable and actionable for young people in Africa. This we achieve by partnering with private and public organisations to drive various initiatives via education, advocacies, awareness campaigns and community-centred projects. SUSTEAPARTY 2022 To commemorate World Environment Day 2022 and our sixth year anniversary,

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SustyVibes Hangout: Abuja

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The hangout scheduled for 4pm at Citadel and Towers Garden, Airport Road, Abuja began some minutes past 4pm with both new and old Sustyvibers socializing and networking through playing games and feasting championed by Mimi Ituah and Oscar Echesirim, while others joined in. The hangout commenced in earnest at 4:45pm with our very own Diwan

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Climate Walk & Street Conference to Commemorate World Environment Day in Port Harcourt

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Ahead of World Envioronment Day, SustyVibers in Port Harcourt headed to the streets on June 4 to commemorate this day. The activities include evacuation of organic waste that was collected in bin bags and neatly packaged, while plastic and nylon waste were collected in bin bags for collection by cleaners of the Rivers State Waste

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Can Humour Help with Climate Action

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“Humour can help us co-exist with the darkness while pursuing light” -Pablo Suarez The twitter space event brought experts on climate change communication, activists and comedians together to discuss the role of comedy and humour in climate advocacy. The Twitter space which had 473 live listeners, 14 speakers, 1619 recording replays and a total of

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Eco-anxiety in Nigeria

Research

In Nigeria, the mental concern for the impact of changes in the environment is still largely unexplored, this is partly due to the fact that the known and the unknown spaces are still dealing with their changing environment.

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THE HEAT IS KILLING ME, HELP!

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A few weeks ago, I experienced rashes and boils in unusual parts of my body. It felt like my body was burning and I was under attack from blood-sucking insects/monsters… After conducting a few tests, the doctor said I was fine and my body was just reacting to the heat wave.

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Open Defecation in Nigeria: How Nigeria Can Learn From Bangladesh

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Data suggests that regions with high rates of open defecation experience severe sanitation and waste management problems. India currently has the highest level of open defecation. It accounts for about 59% of the 1.1 billion people who practice open defecation. Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, is not far behind.

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