One of mCool People Carey favourite recent discoveries online is Cool People Care. It’s a site aimed at younger people to motivate youth (and anyone for that matter) to get involved in positive projects to benefit different sections of both local and global communities. Continue reading
Did you know that ice acts as a CO2 vault? Did you know that when ice melts way up in the Arctic circle it releases CO2 that was previously trapped into the atmosphere? Continue reading
Very soon we will be bringing you sustainable living and travel tips: implementable changes you can make to your daily habits to reduce your impact on the planet’s resources. The focus is one step at a time. Continue reading
Bolga Baskets: Each basket uses 170 pure water plastic bags on average, and about 1.7 yards of recycled cloth, that would otherwise be burnt along with the plastic. Continue reading
If you would rather enjoy your plastic on the outside, then take a twenty minute trip to Trashy Bags in Accra where plastic is recycled into brilliant, handmade bags and purses. Continue reading
A stroll along any road in virtually any city or village in Ghana invites ugly scenes: plastic rubbish virtually everywhere. It’s one of the major complaints tourists have about traveling in Ghana. Continue reading
Plastic bags are to the Ghana landscape what fallen leaves are to Autumn landscapes in cooler parts of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a seasonal phenomenon; it’s a 365 day a year phenomenon. Continue reading
(As an Australian woman) you know you’re in a cross-cultural relationship when…You shake a large flying bug from your hair and say to your partner, “Oh it’s just one of those bugs you used to eat as a child…” Continue reading
This is a culture where young people are expected to be seen and not heard. Sound familiar? Continue reading
In high school he told me that, when we were in primary school, I’d called him all sorts of racist names. I really thought he was joking. I couldn’t remember calling him names at all. But he insisted I had. Continue reading
I started a series about travel blogging that readers of G-lish might find helpful and informative. I’ve been blogging using Blogger at This is Ghana since late 2008 and on Wordpress here at G-lish since late 2009. Continue reading
During my first weeks in kindergarten I walked out of school, which was a tree in our village, because the only thing we learnt for weeks was how to count from one to thirty. I told my teacher, “I want to go past one,” and left the tree and walked back home. My parents were horrified and I got in trouble. Continue reading
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