Christine Ro
https://www.christinero.com
Interested in international development, social justice, environmentalism, language, and pop culture. Would love to throw all those things into a blender.
PROJECTS
Forbes
Zimbabwean Communities Keep Fields Watered Via Solar
Solar power for watering crops isn’t just a pipe dream. In Mashaba, a Zimbabwean village near the town of Gwanda, renewable energy is helping to pump underground water to fields whose farmers previously relied on inconsistent rainfall, or on irrigation using (expensive and hard-to-locate) diesel.
Forbes
From Feces To Flies To Feed: Innovating The Lifecycle Of Human Waste
Black soldier flies can "recycle" human waste, with potential benefits for the environment, hygiene, income, and food security.
Book Riot
Jeeves and Blackface
Obviously P.G. Wodehouse was never going to be beloved of egalitarians.
Forbes
Breaking Up With Open Fires Is Hard To Do
My love of fires, shared with many, is detrimental to both human and environmental health.
Book Riot
How Underrepresentation Affects Racial Narratives and American Kids
Underrepresentation of Minorities in Children’s Media
BBC
Parental leave: How rich countries compare
Which nations offer the best maternity and paternity leave allowances?
BBC
Did manga shape how the world sees Japan?
As manga enthusiasts like to say, there’s a manga for everyone.
Forbes
Moving To Clean Household Fuels Would Dramatically Improve India's Air
Air pollution is deadlier than anything else in the world, and Indian air pollution is notoriously bad.
Forbes
Better Locations For International Conferences
Hamid Eghbal-zadeh has had his fair share of frustration when attempting to obtain U.S. visas to attend conferences in recent years.
longreads.com
High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me
I’m sweaty, exhausted, and red-faced when I finally emerge from my final acid trip.
Forbes
The World's Most Toxic Eggs?
People living or working around waste combustion sites, in cities in Ghana and Cameroon, are massively exposed to brominated dioxins, chlorinated dioxins, and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs).