Shomari Healy
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      • Tropical Fieldwork – French Guiana
      • Tree climbing: From Bristol to French Guiana
      • How shipping impacts globalisation and international trade
      • How minimalism and sustainable living intersect
      • How healthy living can impact the environment
      • I’m tired of the word Lockdown
      • Was Covid-19 good for the environment?
      • ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ and the George Floyd Protests
      • How Wildfires Have Impacted 2020
      • Best ways to mitigate the Urban Heat Island effect
      • The Urban Heat Island Effect: Characteristics and impacts
      • Carbon footprint: How meat and dairy affect it and ways you can reduce it
      • Digital colonialism and its effect on the global south
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      • Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad: Review and Thoughts
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Sustainability

Was Covid-19 good for the environment?

With a new lockdown being introduced in the UK and many other countries still under stringent coronavirus restrictions, the virus, almost a year later, is still playing a major and significant role in our day to day lives. It has Read more…

By Shomari, 5 years13/01/2021 ago
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‘The Wretched of the Earth’ and the George Floyd Protests

The Wretched of the Earth is a significant and important piece of revolutionary literature written by Frantz Fanon and published in 1961. The book analyses the significant roles that race, class, and violence play in acquiring freedom. In ‘The Wretched Read more…

By Shomari, 5 years17/11/2020 ago
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How Wildfires Have Impacted 2020

2020 has been a tough year all round and has impacted people in various ways across the globe. From widespread unemployment, to the Beirut explosion, to one of the biggest civil rights movements occurring throughout the world off the back Read more…

By Shomari, 5 years26/10/2020 ago
Sustainability

Best ways to mitigate the Urban Heat Island effect

The Urban Heat Island effect is a major climatological phenomenon that impacts cities and communities all over the world. As a result, there are many mitigation methods and strategies that have been devised in order to combat its effects. Mitigation Read more…

By Shomari, 5 years17/09/2020 ago
Geography

The Urban Heat Island Effect: Characteristics and impacts

Have you ever wondered why it’s so much warmer when you visit your family in the city vs when you visit family out in the countryside? Cities have been getting warmer and warmer as the years have gone by. This Read more…

By Shomari, 5 years16/09/2020 ago
Sustainability

Carbon footprint: How meat and dairy affect it and ways you can reduce it

Going about your daily life you rarely stop to consider how the food you eat impacts the environment and the world around you. The impact of your food consumption can be described using your personal carbon footprint. What is carbon Read more…

By Shomari, 5 years03/09/2020 ago
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Digital colonialism and its effect on the global south

“While colonialism in its formal sense might have been dismantled, the colonial state has not…The official apparatus might have been removed, but the political, economic, and cultural links established by colonial domination still remain with some alterations” [1] The colonial Read more…

By Shomari, 5 years19/08/2020 ago
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