

Design Thinking Online Experiential Learning
This is the transcript of a speech I delivered in 2017 on Innovation, Design, and Learning Environments, entitled "Design Thinking for...


Costa Rica Bans Animal Selfies
Costa Rica has launched a campaign to #StopAnimalSelfies. The campaign dissuades travellers and tourists from endangering native animals...


The "Decade of Development" and the Need for Critical Global Citizenship
Who and what is a global citizen? Those questions are inescapably linked to globalisation as a theory, history and project. Great...


Operation Vacation. Or, "I went on holiday and all I got was this lousy liver!"
Rising healthcare costs, long wait lists, and the unavailability of medical procedures have all given a boost to medical tourism....


What NOT to Wear: The High Human-Cost of Fashion
Pick your cotton carefully. I was recently awakened to the high human cost of the cotton in the second highest cotton-producing country,...


Help Carry the Load: Supporting the human rights of porters, sherpas and guides.
Picture what it would be like to stand on the summit of your personal Everest. A dizzying mixture of exhaustion, pride and sheer awe...