Let’s plant a million trees in each country of the world!

kristyGlobal Citizen

Let’s plant a million trees in each country of the world! www.plant-for-the-planet.org Update from the Plant-for-the-Planet Children Initiative NEWS Elect the Next Global Board! Register as voter for the global board 2012/2013 Plant-for-the-Planet Annual Meeting – Be Part of it! April 20 – 22nd 2012 in Castle Schwaneck near Munich …

This Key UN Group on Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) will Need Many Watchdogs!

kristyGreen Prosperity, Resource Efficiency

UN Secretary-General Names High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All 26 September 2011: The UN Secretary-General has appointed business, government and civil society leaders from around the world to serve on the newly created UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL). The Group was created ahead of …

ENB Vol. 27 No. 7 – UN Conference on Sustainable Development Regional Preparatory Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean – Final Summary

kristyGreen Prosperity

Volume 27 Number 07 – Monday, 12 September 2011 SUMMARY OF THE UNCSD (RIO+20) REGIONAL PREPARATORY MEETING FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 7-9 SEPTEMBER 2011 The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20) Regional Preparatory Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) convened at the headquarters of …

Ecocities Emerging – September 2011 Issue

kristySustainability News

Greetings, Welcome to the September 2011 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series. During August 22-26, over 1,500 delegates from 70+ countries gathered in beautiful Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at Ecocity World Summit, the 9th International Ecocity Conference. We gathered with hope, determination …

Online seminars to introduce the Earth Charter and the Initiative

kristyGreen Prosperity, Global Citizen, Earth Systems Science

Online seminars to introduce the Earth Charter and the Initiative ECI Secretariat will be offering four online seminars to introduce the Earth Charter, once a week every week in September. Click here for more… ___________________________________________________________________________ An independent policy paper on the Earth Charter and Rio+20 is now available Three scholars …

Report on EUROSTAT Conference on “Statistics for Policymaking: Europe 2020”

kristyReforming Global Finance, Beyond GDP

Report on EUROSTAT Conference on “Statistics for Policymaking: Europe 2020” By Lisa Cowan, EMBA, Ethical Markets European Correspondent The 2011 annual gathering of Europe’s key statisticians and policy makers was held in Brussels, March 2011. The conference was opened by Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, who confirmed …

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Dr. Matthew Kiernan

kristySRI/ESG News

An interview from Emerging Markets ESG Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Dr. Matthew Kiernan, Founder and CEO, Inflection Point Capital Management, Canada –May 20, 2011 By Geoffrey on May 20, 2011 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview …

United Nations Mother Earth Day

kristyGlobal Citizen

April 2011 JOIN CPS TO CELEBRATE MOTHERS & MOTHER EARTH Mother’s Day is around the corner, and we want to invite you to honor your own mother and Mother Earth by joining with us to build a more caring, sustainable world. We have exiting news: UNITED NATIONS MOTHER EARTH DAY …

Rio+20: Making it Happen

kristySustainability News, Earth Systems Science

Dear Colleagues, Please find attached Volume 2, Issue 6 of our biweekly newsletter Rio+20: Making it Happen, dedicated to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, which is now available online and will also be sent to subscribers. This is a special issue focusing on one of the two themes of …

Leading Brazilian Futurist Sees a Shift to a Feminine Economy

kristyReforming Global Finance

By Mario Osava IPS interviews Brazilian feminist ROSE MARIE MURARO RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 17, 2010 (IPS) – It is necessary to move from a “masculine” economy based on competition and a win-lose mentality to a “feminine” win-win economy based on the concept of collaboration, says writer Rose Marie Muraro, …