‘Sustainability News’
General reporting on issues, research and experimental programs, new trade associations, and communities/business efforts, advertising, marketing.
Relates to: Trendspotting, Community Development Solutions, Global Citizenship, Sustainability Research Group, EthicalMarkets.tv
Durban Climate Talks: The Fight Begins
Durban Climate Talks: The Fight Begins Global Warming / Climate Change has emerged as the single largest threat to mankind. The complexities of understanding global climate system and developing an appropriate global response strategy seem to have overthrown the scientific community into perpetual debate and widened the divide between the rich [...]
Development and Environment: The Nexus
Development and Environment: The Nexus by Brice Lalonde, Executive Coordinator, UN Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) Heading_towards Rio+20, governments and civil society must raise their eyes to assess the situation and prepare for commitments commensurate to the challenges. Extreme poverty and the degradation of the [...]
Rio+20 Making it Happen: Volume 2, Issue 21, 21 Nov 2011
Volume 2, Issue 21 of Rio+20: Making it Happen focuses on the sustainable management of oceans and marine resources (blue economy), one of the seven priority issues to be addressed at the Conference. Among other related events, it also highlights the 22 November 2011 launch of the Conference's communications strategy, which aims at increasing [...]
Conference on Water Energy Food Nexus Sees Launch of New Water Initiative
Conference on Water Energy Food Nexus Sees Launch of New Water Initiative 18_November: The Bonn2011: Water Energy Food Nexus Conference, held in Bonn, Germany from 16-18 November 2011, launched the “International Water Stewardship Initiative.” continued... PROVIA Launches Survey on Prioritization of Research Objectives 15_November [...]
Ecocities Emerging – November 2011 Issue
Welcome to the November 2011 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series. In collaboration with leading scientific reseachers and Nobel laureates, a group of Earth system and environmental scientists led by Johan Rockstrom from the Stockholm Resilience Centre have developed a [...]
GWB11 Conference Invitation
This is to announce the call for participation at the Global Warming and Business conference 2011(GWB11), 9th - 13th December 2011 at Kings Garden Hotel, 11, Upper Brook Street, West Central, London, W1K 6PB, United Kingdom. Concept GWB Conference 2011 themed mpacts of the Global Warming on Business Development", Global Warming Policy and [...]
The Evolution of Sustainability Metrics
The Evolution of Sustainability Metrics by Carol Singer Neuvelt October 27, 2011—The world of sustainability performance analytics is exploding at a breakneck speed. What once was a niche field for socially responsible investment has transformed into a vast marketplace of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices, ratings firms and [...]
GRACEnotes November: State of Clean Energy, Questionable Salmon and the Value of Water
GE Salmon: Swimming Away with Subsidies: Despite the potential environmental threat posed by genetically engineered fish, biotech corporation AquaBounty has received more than $2.4 million in federal research grants since 2003 to support its GE salmon project. water Through Art, the Value of Water Expressed: As the most common chemical [...]
Transforming Finance To Grow Green Sustainable Economies
TRANSFORMING FINANCE TO GROW GREEN SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES By Hazel Henderson (*) SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, Oct (IPS) "We recognize finance as part of the global commons," affirms the Transforming Finance statement, signed by financial professionals worldwide critical of today's casino capital markets. Financialization has produced the global [...]
National Healthy Communities Conference (2nd Annual) | Monday, November 7, 2011 | WATCH LIVE!
Healthy Communities Conference: Building Systems to Integrate Community Development and Health Monday, November 7, 2011 Co-Sponsored By: The Pew Charitable Trusts Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco As the connections between health and community development become increasingly apparent, foundations, [...]
