FutureGrenada VCC News
[Sep 29, 2026] 35th Annual CWWA Conference and Exhibition in Grenada: The 35th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) will take place on October 12-16, 2026 at the Radisson Hotel in Grenada. It is noted that Seven Seas Water Group is among the exhibitors. This enterprise aims to buy water and wastewater facilities everywhere and then offer “Water as a Service”. Seven Seas is a portfolio company of EQT, a company engaged in fossil fuels. What the Seven Seas group is doing could be seen as a modern form of colonialism, and EQT might want to engage in water business to justify the claim that EQT is carbon neutral. It is hoped that Seven Sees is not in Grenada to acquire NAWAS.
[Sep 29, 2026] UWI GLOBAL CAMPUS CLIMATE CONFERENCE 2027: The UWI Global Campus Climate Conference 2027 will take place in Grenada on April 7-9, 2027. The conference aims at “bringing together researchers, climate advocates, policymakers, educators, students and community leaders to co-create innovative solutions for a resilient and sustainable Caribbean.” However, separating the climate emergency out from the multi crises of biodiversity and wildlife loss, pollution, and involuntary migration doesn't seem to promise many “innovative” solutions.
[Jul 18, 2026] Air Water in Grenada: Access to drinking water is increasingly an issue in Grenada and many other islands in teh Caribbean. The start-up company Air Water 4U is bringing the technology to harvest water from the humidity in the air to Grenada and the Caribbean. Water from air can meet the drinking water needs in the Caribbean. Atmospheric water generation is a technology that provides climate-resilient access to safe and clean drinking water. If combined with solar energy it is the most and only sustainable supply of drinking water. The AW4U VCC is the place to discuss how the different islands in the Caribbean can best benefit from this innovative approach.
Platform News
[Sep 26, 2026] “Digital Technology should be governed by people for people”: Joseph Gorden-Levit, the UN Global Advocate for Human-centric Digital Governance, in his opening remarks (starting at about 20:00 in the recordings) at the Digital Cooperation Day 2026 emphasized that “the decision we make in this moment are going to have a massive impact on everyone's life, on the whole future of humanity.” He underlined that how “digital technology is designed and developed and deployed should be governed by people for people.” The challenge is that some believe digital technology should be governed by the market. Place4Us is designed and governed by people and for people with no role to play for the market.
[Sep 26, 2026] “In the absence of truth, trust deteriorates”: This is what Mia Amor Mottley made very clear in her amazing speech at the 81st United Nations General Assembly. She said: “When we luck truth and we luck trust law becomes theater, News become spectacle, and science becomes just another opinion.” With respect to the ongoing ecocide in Gaza she quoted the Roman historian Tacitus who reported a statement of a Scottish chieftain about the Roman soldiers: “They make it desert and they call it Peace.”
[Sep 21, 2026] End Times Fascism: The book “End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World” by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor underlines that the End Times Fascist have given up on humanity and this world. They are not only building the arks for themselves, they also accelerate the coming of the flood.
[Sep 21, 2026] Meta and Instagram ban ads with “social topics”: Stephen Burgen reports in the Guardian article “Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism” that Meta explained that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. These topics are central to Woolf’s work. As reported, Meta recommended removing “key words” so that the text doesn’t appear to encourage activism. This underlines the importance of Place4Us, where social topics are at the forefront and activism is encouraged.
[Sep 13, 2026] "They are traitors to creation, to the wonders of here": Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor in their article “The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear” make clear that the unholy alliance of the billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and others, who suffer from an absence of awe in the face of the unique beauty of our home planet, is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only they as the chosen few will emerge unscathed. The authors claim that it is becoming clear how we stop them.
[Aug 03, 2026] Alliance of World Scientists Declares Planetary Emergency: In the paper “ World scientists’ warning to humanity: a third notice” the Alliance of World Scientists includes the “Declaration of a planetary emergency.” The declaration states: “We, the undersigned, recognize that Earth is now in a state of planetary emergency. Climate change, biodiversity loss, land and freshwater degradation, pollution, and unsustainable production and consumption are destabilizing the Earth system that supports all life.”
You can sign the declaration here ...
[Aug 03, 2026] Hothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think…: Julian Cribb writes in his latest blog: “Latest measurements, carefully analysed to exclude anomalies such as El Nino, reveal a planet cooking up at a steady 0.48 degrees per decade since 2015, in what is thought to be the most rapid heating event in all its geological history.” We are experiencing the most rapid heating event in Earth's billions of years long history! We have caused this event with a few hundred years of sole focus on unlimited growth using all the ancient solar energy accumulated by Earth's biosphere over more than 250 million years - just because we could! That is something to reflect on!
