Making the voice of the rivers heard
 

Everywhere in the world rivers are impacted 
by climate change and accelerated urbanisation. The Colorado (USA) and the MurrayDarling Basin (Australia) are under severe stress because of overexploitation through 
feeding cities and agriculture with water. 
The Ganges is one of the ten most vulnerable rivers in the world, threatened by pollution and uncontrolled residue. This is the result of haphazard economical and urban development. 
The Rhine in Germany, a navigable waterway, vital for goods transport, has reached its lowest level in history. The level of the Rhône in France is dropping every year although it is still a major source of renewable energy  through hydropower. Rivers and their tributaries are in grave danger while most people have lived on their banks and in their deltas since the beginning of humanity. 
 

Read the whole article here 

Text by Marie-Cécile Grisard

Photo to your left by Camille Moirenc

Please meet Johan Tell
 

Johan started his career as an editor, reporter and columnist at the Swedish travelers’ magazine Vagabond. Since then, Johan has been nominated twice to the columnist of the year, twice to the non-fiction author, he has received the Swedish Publishing Prize” Verbal perfection” for his book ”Trees can save the world” with the motivation : ”A loving, proud and personnel call for the conservation of the forest”. His book ”Post Scriptum”, a portrait of the Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm also received the Swedish Pubishing Prize. 

Johan’s passion and engagement in sustainability and environmental issues have not only resulted in all his books but also in more than hundreds talks. He is regularly invited as a speaker in Sweden, but also in France, UK, Germany, Finland, Norway, Canada, Abu Dhabi, White Russia, Serbia….

Johan Tell is the author of our next book Beloved Plastic and has recently been interviewed by Christian Von Essen for the supplement Framtidens Hållbara Matsystem