During data collection for my PhD project on organisations that integrate environmentally beneficial outcomes into their practices, I came to know a wide range of people. Some people had unhappy childhoods, struggled with substance abuse, or experienced long-term unemployment. Others were idealistic university graduates wanting to make Read more…
Lack of access to adequate electricity is a hardship for school-going children in rural poor households of India. Rural poor areas are deprived of a consistent electricity supply sometimes for 12 to 14 hours a day, making it difficult for children to study at home. Children are constrained to use Read more…
It was another sultry Summer day in the Deep South, and the stench was unbearable, but I kept digging. The twenty-two-foot-long dumpster was full of TVs, office refrigerators, computers, coat hangers, sheets, pillows, phones, clothes, soiled and broken futons, cracked lamps, books, “furniture” wall art, and plastic bags of all colors—and Read more…
“It is a mighty heritage…and it is all there is to trust. And I learned this through descending, as it were, into the eyes of my father and my mother. I wondered, when I was little, how they bore it—for I knew that they had much to bear. It had Read more…
On September 20th, 2017, Hurricane Maria struck the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico causing widespread destruction and displacing thousands of Puerto Ricans both within the island itself and into the mainland United States. At least 2,975 people lost their lives as a direct result of the storm (a conservative government Read more…
Flashback 20 years. I was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Folklore. I didn’t study myths, tall tales, or legends. What I studied was the knowledge, culture, and expression of people, in their everyday surroundings, and how they pass this “lore” or wisdom on to the next Read more…