{"id":6246,"date":"2019-10-30T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T06:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"going-green-and-clean-begins-in-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/30\/going-green-and-clean-begins-in-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Green and Clean Begins in The Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By&nbsp;The New Times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>it\nwas first announced that Rwanda and Russia would be collaborating&nbsp; to\nbuild a nuclear plant and develop related technologies for peaceful purposes,\nthere were a lot of pessimistic comments on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many were just nasty for the\nsake of it, but many were just too lazy to look beyond the stereotypes that\nAfrican nations were born to fail. For others, it was just a matter of soar\ngrapes, kicking themselves in the shin in frustration for being beaten to the\ntape by someone they considered lesser than them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It the past few months Rwanda\nhas registered a number of firsts or unveiled innovative and trail-blazing\nideas and policies that many critics thought was biting more than it could\nchew. That is exactly where the problem lies; how does one know the limits of\none\u2019s strength without taking the first step or throwing all caution to the air\nand just jump into the pool to test its depth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former US President Barack\nObama\u2019s book, \u201cThe Audacity of Hope\u201d, sums it all up; Rwanda wants to prove\nthat nothing can hold it back in its bid to improve the livelihoods of its\npeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes the going is not\nvery smooth but it learns from its mistakes and starts all over again where\nmany would have been discouraged and thrown in the towel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, today, Volkswagen, which\nalready has a vehicle assembly plant in the country, will unveil its first-ever\nfully electric car on the African continent. Rwanda is not playing with\nexpensive toys, it is just being realistic and worried about the future. The\neffects of climate change are real, so why not mitigate them by going green?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is what the leaders of this country like to call \u201cthinking big\u201d, and why not? It has never harmed anyone to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/opinions\/editorial-going-green-and-clean-begins-mind\">Original Article<\/a> On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/\">The New Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;The New Times When&nbsp;it was first announced that Rwanda and Russia would be collaborating&nbsp; to build a nuclear plant and develop related technologies for peaceful purposes, there were a lot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}