The Netherlands is building its first large-scale commercial vertical indoor farm. It’s expected to serve Europe’s largest supermarket chains with high quality, pesticide-free fresh cut lettuce. Vertical farms use high tech lighting and climate controlled buildings to grow crops like leafy greens or herbs indoors while using less water and soil. Because it’s a closed growing system, with controlled …
It is too expensive, too complicated, or simply not Africa’s priority. But the problem of cancer on the continent is real and, believe it or not, more African women die of cancer than complications from pregnancy. Over 250,000 African women lost their lives to cancer in 2012—the equivalent of one African woman losing her life every three …
Wednesday saw a significant blow to the Trump administration’s attempts to institute a Muslim ban. A Federal Judge in Hawaii struck down a revised travel ban, saying it was driven by “significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus” as evidenced by comments made by the administration and Trump himself. As a Somali-American living and working …
I first became acutely aware of the healthcare needs of remote communities nearly twenty years ago when I was Peace Corps Volunteer in East Timor at the end of the conflict (serving as a community health promotion volunteer). I spent a year living with a host family in a small town nearly 45 minutes’ drive …
Screams and the crashing sound of a roof collapsing. Emergency services conducting a search and rescue operation for people trapped in the rubble. These were scenes earlier this month at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, after the roof in the foyer collapsed. Several people were injured but there were no fatalities. The roof had …