Tag Archives: environment

Selina Leem doesn’t want to lose her country to climate change

Earlier this year, Evelyn met unofficial Marshall Islands ambassador Selina Leem at a Pazifik-Netzwerk meeting close to Nuremberg. Inspired by Selina’s climate change advocacy work, Ev invited her to write about how she came to be living, and attending an international high school, in Germany.

In this firsthand account, Selina talks about how real the threat of climate change is for countries like the Marshall Islands.  Continue →

Hannah Spyksma on losing Rachel Morrison, but not her legacy

I’m not going to lie; I’m really good at losing things. Last year it was my favorite winter coat and raincoat. This year, so far, there’s been a dress, a hat and a scarf, that I know of. I once left my bike downtown for a week before realizing – when I should have been riding it to an interview – that it wasn’t in my backyard. Continue →