For more than three decades, the Central Coffee Organization of Northwestern Peru has addressed gender inequity on the farm. Putting a dollar value on women’s work is what has made a difference. The post Cafe Femenino appeared first on Green Planet Monitor.

They're scrubby, fierce with mosquitoes and impossible to walk through, but salt water mangroves are the guardians of Earth's tropical coastlines and nurseries for her fish. They're also threatened. The post The Mangroves of Southern Cambodia appeared first on Green Planet Monitor.

Mumbai is the world’s third most populous city. This little neck of land dangling in the Arabian Sea is a Mecca for India’s corporate giants. But almost half of Mumbai’s eighteen million residents are poor and real estate moguls are squeezing them out. The post Dharavi appeared first on Green Planet Monitor.

It’s easy to forget – living in the middle of a continent – that there are limits to the amount of dross we can toss. But when you’re living on an island, in the middle of the ocean, trash can get in your face The post Garbage in Paradise appeared first on Green Planet Monitor.