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Earth Day 2012: The Best and Worst

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 19 April 2012 in Sustainable Development

April 22 marks the 42nd annual Earth Day observance. In recent years, the week running up to Earth Day has become increasingly filled with a riotous mix of news that ranges from inspired initiatives to thinly veiled partisanship and shameless exploitation. As a journalist wh...

Earth Day 2012 - Protect the Earth

Posted by Angel on Saturday, 14 April 2012 in Sustainable Development

Earth Day is happening on On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012 and help Protect the Earth. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Together we will stand uni...

Better World Forum-Deepok Chopra, Bishop TuTu-Earth Protect Discounts HERE

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 29 March 2012 in Sustainable Development

You're invited to connect with Visionaries & Activists, Taking ideas to action for global social changeBetter World Forum 2012 Sharing Solutions, Taking ActionApril 21-22 and April 28-29www.betterworldforum2012.com Participate Online and by Phone Anywhere Worldwide! Click here for the Earth Pr...

Better World Forum 2012

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 09 March 2012 in Sustainable Development

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“Sustainability: the HOW”

Posted by Greg Lavery on Thursday, 23 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

This paper describes how to succeed in profitably transforming the sustainability of organisations. Or you could look at this as how to sustainably increase profitability. Included in the document are: A sustainability transformation roadmap describing the building blocks of a successful program ...

Environmental Education Tackled

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 06 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

This week more than 500 educators will convene in Ocean City for the largest state environmental education conference in the nation. They will stay in local hotels, eat and drink at local establishments, enjoy local nature and discuss the challenges, complexities and successes of environme...

Students Raise Awareness About Plastic Bags

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 06 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

The amount of litter around the community raised concerns for Stacey Jambura's Lowell Elementary School students. But its potential impacts on the environment --- including the world's oceans --- is what spurred them to action. Jambura's 13 third- through fifth-grade expanded learning prog...

The Green Bowl

Posted by bensor on Friday, 03 February 2012 in Sustainable Development

For the past 18 years, the NFL has been working to decrease the environmental footprint of the largest annual sporting event in the U.S. — the Super Bowl. Two years ago, we wrote about several initiatives aimed at reducing the events’ impacts. Last year, we covered how Super Bowl XLV was s...

Sustainability Predictions for 2012

Posted by Greg Lavery on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 in Sustainable Development

Our 2011 predictions were about 80% right. So we have made 4 predictions for 2012: Sustainability as a profit driver; Focus on the ‘how’ of sustainability; Innovation, and; LED lighting. To see whether our predictions for 2012 are worth reading, let’s see how 2011’s predictions fared (for the origi...

Ecuador is Proposing to Not Drill for Money

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 03 January 2012 in Sustainable Development

A possibly ground-breaking idea has been kept on life support after Ecuador revealed its Yasuni-ITT Initiative had raked in $116 million before the end of the year, breaking the $100 million mark that Ecuador said it needed to keep the program alive. Ecuador is proposing to not drill for an estimate...

Chemistry as the language of life

Posted by Angel on Monday, 02 January 2012 in Sustainable Development

Mark Hay Monday, January 02, 2012 Functioning largely by sight and sound, humans are poorly equipped to understand the importance of chemical signals among organisms. We pay to go to museums and concerts where we see and hear; we rarely pay to go to "displays" of smell. In contrast, most organis...

Listen to the People archbishop of Goa

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 30 December 2011 in Sustainable Development

PANAJI: Against the backdrop of public apprehensions over the Regional Plan (RP) 2021, the archbishop of Goa, Filipe Neri Ferrao, on Thursday reminded Goa government leaders including chief minister Digambar Kamat and cabinet ministers of "the duty to tend the earth and to be responsible s...

Environmental Movement Plots Future

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 07 December 2011 in Sustainable Development

The future of environmentalism in Connecticut just might be economic development. At the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters' 12th Annual Environmental Summit in Hartford Tuesday afternoon, it was growth, not blocking bulldozers, that got the old hands and activists chattering. Sure,...

What is an Environmental Exhange?

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 in Sustainable Development

Putting Back What Is Used Through Offsets and ExchangesSustainable business requires making changes to the way your business thinks; it means changing business practices through purchasing and providing products and services that have a positive impact on the environment AND the economy.Why an Envir...

Sea Cemetary Help Save Endangered Fish

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 in Sustainable Development

Visitors to this city’s burial ground learn more from the dead, particularly about the whale shark and other endangered sea creatures. The 12-year-old “fish cemetery” of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has become a field school all year round, even to the curious, according to ...

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Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 in Sustainable Development

Almost every day of his childhood, He Xin remembers the skies in his hometown of Shenyang being gray. “If I wore a white shirt to school, by the end of the day it would be brown,” recalls He, who was born in 1974, “and there would be a ring of black soot under the collar.” He grew u...

Can We Carry the Planet

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 30 September 2011 in Sustainable Development

The idea that human societies, at their best, seek to evolve toward a more perfect embodiment of humankind’s shared aspirations for peace, freedom, justice, prosperity, personal and collective wellbeing. Today, and for the foreseeable future, that list also includes sustainability: living within the...

Sustainable Consumption: International Pre-Conference (Nov. 6th, Hamburg)

Posted by Aaron on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 in Sustainable Development

Young researchers in the inter- and transdisciplinary field of research on sustainable consumption as well as in the field of sustainability sciences in general are warmly invited to attend the pre-conference “Research on Sustainable Consumption – Present and Future Perspectives for Young Academics”...

What City Will Be the Most Green by 2020?

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 in Sustainable Development

Can you guess? Boulder CO according to the Daily Camera article by Health Urie. This achievement is subject to Boulder renewing its contract with Xcel Energy with its proposal that includes 90% renewable energy. Boulder is deciding whether to continue to use XCEL or to become a municipal utility....

KKR and Michael Porter:Profitable sustainability goes mainstream

Posted by Greg Lavery on Friday, 10 June 2011 in Sustainable Development

Mainstream business is catching up to what the sustainability community has intuitively known for a long time: a sustainable approach is more profitable. From KKR (the private equity firm) to manufacturers such as Interface FLOR (famous amongst the sustainability community but not often known outsid...