Center for Sustainable Transformation - CEST

27/03/2026

Plastic waste and pollution in Ghana, driven by our dependence on single-use plastics and the growing impact of fast fashion, are all around us. You notice it the moment you step outside your home.

But beneath what we see, lies something deeper: the systems, laws, policies, practices, and normalized behaviours that continue to enable it.

Join YRE Ghana’s webinar on Plastic Waste as we go beyond the surface to unpack the real drivers of the crisis, and what must change.

📅 28 March, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Google Meet

Scan or click here to register: https://shorturl.at/pfL83

Plastic waste and pollution in Ghana are not accidental. They are shaped by everyday choices, weak systems, policy gaps, and industries that continue to fuel the problem.

Tomorrow, YRE Ghana brings together voices from different backgrounds, and expertise to examine this crisis more closely, unpack its real drivers, and explore what meaningful change should look like.

Meet our speakers for the webinar, and join the conversation.

📅 Tomorrow, 28 March, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Google Meet

Scan or click here to join: https://shorturl.at/BmOnG

27/03/2026

It's tomorrow! Registered yet?

Plastic waste and pollution in Ghana, driven by our dependence on single-use plastics, and the growing impact of fast fashion, are all around us. You notice it the moment you step outside your home.

But beneath what we see, lies something deeper: the systems, laws, policies, practices, and normalized behaviours that continue to enable it.

Join YRE Ghana’s webinar on Plastic Waste as we go beyond the surface to unpack the real drivers of the crisis, and what must change.

📅 28 March, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Google Meet

Scan or click here to register: https://shorturl.at/pfL83

06/03/2026

When Ghana🇬🇭 gained independence 69 years ago, we had a largely green economy and healthy natural environments.

As we move toward Ghana@70, let us work together to restore that legacy and reduce our dependence on pollutants. For the sake of our children and the generations to come.

28/02/2026

We're now LIVE and ACTIVE! Join us!

We're now LIVE and ACTIVE! Join us!

📅: February 28, 2026
🕠: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
📍: https://meet.google.com/sxz-mzdj-pxg

28/02/2026

It's today!

The most anticipated webinar on climate change is happening today!

​✅ Practical solutions
✅ Community impact
✅ Expert insights

📅: February 28, 2026
🕠: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
📍: https://meet.google.com/sxz-mzdj-pxg

25/02/2026

With the current temperature and weather patterns we've been experiencing of late, this webinar could not have happened at a better time.

Eagerly looking forward!

Ready for the most anticipated webinar on climate change? ​​We’re moving beyond the "problem" and focusing on the action & solutions.

​📅: 28 February, 2026
​📍: https://meet.google.com/sxz-mzdj-pxg
⏰: 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Why should you join?

📌Gain deeper insight into climate realities
📌Understand its impact on our communities and future
📌Be equipped with practical solutions and action points
📌Connect with like-minded individuals passionate about change.

14/02/2026

Ready to dive into the solutions that actually matter? Then save the date for our must-join webinar to wrap up the month.

​​We’re moving beyond the "problem" and focusing on the action.

Join us for an insightful session dedicated to practical strategies and sustainable innovations that can secure our planet’s future.

​📅: 28 February, 2026
​📍: Google Meet (Scan to Register)
⏰: 6:00 - 8:00 PM

12/02/2026

Get ready for an incredible journey of growth and learning!

Check out our Webinar Series Calendar from now to July, mark your calender, and join us to elevate your skills!

11/02/2026

Centered on the profound consequences of rising global temperatures, the narrative focuses on how heat stress disproportionately impacts outdoor workers in Ghana. Delving into scientific studies, the article presents adaptive strategies, health-related challenges, and gender-specific disparities obs...

01/02/2026

Interesting afterthoughts after yesterday’s Young Reporters for the Environment - Ghana webinar:

How do environmental journalism and story telling move us into collective action? This was one of the questions at yesterdays YRE webinar. Participant, writer and thinker, Kay Codjoe provides here THE COURIER ENTRY THEORY as one explanation:

A TOP-DOWN STORYTELLING STRATEGY FOR SOCIAL IMPACT — KAY CODJOE WRITES

Most development communication assumes the message must begin at the bottom and work its way up. That assumption ignores how societies actually move.

Ideas rarely travel upward on their own.
They are carried.

THE CORE PREMISE: HOW CHANGE ACTUALLY ACCELERATES

Change accelerates when trusted actors above the social line receive, internalize, and translate a message downward in their own language, spaces, and authority.

Not as messengers.
As couriers.

WHY BOTTOM-UP ALONE OFTEN STALLS: STRENGTHS WITH STRUCTURAL LIMITS

Bottom-up storytelling does three things well.
1. It surfaces lived experience
2. It builds authenticity
3. It creates moral urgency

But it often fails at reach, protection, and amplification.

Stories from the margins are fragile.
They are easily ignored, politicized, or crushed.

Power does not naturally listen downward.

WHY TOP-DOWN COURIER ENTRY WORKS: THE TRUST PATHWAY REALITY

This model recognizes a hard truth.

People listen through people they already trust.

- Teachers
- Clergy
- Traditional leaders
- Senior professionals
- Media editors
- Civic influencers
- Diaspora connectors

These individuals sit above the noise line.
When they speak, doors open.

THE ROLE OF THE COURIER: TRANSLATION, NOT INSTRUCTION

A courier does not lecture.
They translate.

They carry the story into:
• Pulpits
• Editorial rooms
• Board meetings
• Lecture halls
• WhatsApp groups
• Family compounds

And because the message arrives with their face and credibility, it survives.

STORYTELLING, NOT SENSITIZATION: ARMING ADVOCATES, NOT BROADCASTING MESSAGES

This is where the approach departs from standard advocacy.

You are not “educating communities.”
You are arming couriers with human stories that align with their moral or professional identity.

A pastor receives a health story framed as dignity.
A journalist receives an education story framed as evidence.
A chief receives a land story framed as continuity.
A business leader receives a jobs story framed as stability.

Same truth.
Different delivery vessel.

THE MECHANICS OF COURIER ENTRY: HOW IT WORKS IN PRACTICE

1. IDENTIFY THE LINE
Who sits just above the audience you want to reach?

2. EQUIP, DON’T BROADCAST
Small, precise narratives.
No jargon.
High emotional truth.

3. GIVE OWNERSHIP
The courier must feel the story is now theirs to tell.

4. LET IT TRAVEL ORGANICALLY
Stories move faster when they do not look like campaigns.

THIS IS NOT ANTI-GRASSROOTS: SOURCE VERSUS DISTRIBUTION

Grassroots stories are the source.
Courier entry is the distribution system.

Without couriers, stories die in silence.
With them, they become culture.

30/01/2026

Be a force for change. Join our webinar series on environmental storytelling. On 31st January Journalism is up for duscussion. How can we ensure knowledge and awareness of challanges and solutiond reaches everyone to make a positive impact?

27/01/2026

Join the inaguration webinar of our Young Reporters for the Environment - Ghana team on Saturday. High level speakers will guide you on how you can give voice ti current environment and climate challenges and solutions 🍀

Join Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) Ghana for an exciting webinar on Environmental Journalism & Storytelling, where we spotlight how young voices can shape powerful sustainability narratives.

Date: Jan 31, 2026
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM (GMT)
Place: Google Meet

If you care about the planet and love telling stories that matter, this one’s for you.

Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/ycj-hsxb-gjt

Nurture Nature Foundation Hilde Opoku Akumun Emmanuel