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
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 debt bubble. Needed now are write-offs and haircuts to bond-holders and …
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, health institutions, government, community development organizations, private …
Africa Regional Meeting Prepares Africa Consensus Statement to Rio+20
Africa Regional Meeting Prepares Africa Consensus Statement to Rio+20 25_October 2011: The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20) Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting was organized by UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union (AU). Participants deliberated on the themes and objectives …
Why the message from Rio+20 matters more than ever
Why the message from Rio+20 matters more than ever The upcoming summit must take account of the public’s psychological dimensions if it is going to transform climate change cynics into champions of sustainable living George Bernard Shaw saw the world as divided into two sorts of people. Those who looked …
Finalists named for “Nobel of Sustainability”
Finalists named for “Nobel of Sustainability” Oct 28, 2011 12:25 EDT inShare environment | green business | katerva | nobel | sustainability If the Nobel society had an award for sustainability, it would resemble the Katerva awards, a new international prize for the most promising ideas and efforts to advance …
Coke Cans Go White In Support of WWF Polar Bear Campaign
Coca-Cola is changing the red background of its soft-drink can design for the first time ever as part of a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) campaign to protect the arctic habitat of polar bears. Coca-Cola will also give up to $3 million to WWF’s polar bear conservation efforts. Read More… More …
Public Relations Meets Sustainability in Practice
By Rosalinda Sanquiche For the Sustainability Movement to be truly sustainable, organizations must walk the talk. Companies acting consistently with their talk will be rewarded with increased brand value. But what happens if the professionals tasked with conveying the corporate sustainability message do not know the language? The October 2011 …
New index of wellbeing challenges Canada’s GDP as sole measure of progress
Waterloo, Ont. – Canada has become a world leader in measuring wellbeing with the launch of a new comprehensive composite index set to challenge the gross domestic product (GDP) as the sole measure of our country’s progress, says the Honourable Roy Romanow, advisory board chair for the Canadian Index of …
Patagonia: Building A Strong Brand Out Of Old Clothes
Every once in a while, a completely counterintuitive idea comes along, shakes up our assumptions, and becomes the new normal. I believe Patagonia Clothing’s Common Threads initiative is an idea like that. As a business idea, it may seem like a good way to reduce sales. But that’s only if …