Building confidence for the economy Trust and confidence are the socio-psychological attributes that everyone considers to be essential to get the local and global economies going. How do you build them if the population does not have confidence in their politicians, let alone their banking executives? No confidence building can …
“Show Your Carbon Footprint” Competition
The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) in Chicago is hosting a Carbon Neutral competition to reward the organization with the most creative concept for a Carbon Neutral Event or Product. After supporting the development of the world’s first Carbon Neutral Olive Oil GAEA, featured in this years Academy Awards …
Secure Water to Reduce Disaster Risks, Say Experts
March 17, 2009 – High Level Panel at Water Forum Calls for “Six Urgent Imperatives” WORLD WATER COUNCIL – ISTANBUL – The High-Level Expert Panel on Water and Disaster here at the 5th World Water Forum identified six specific priorities and forty actions guidelines to prevent, prepare for, manage and …
YouthLink Express: March 10, 2009
As advocates for youth participation and avid believers in the power of young people’s engagement in all aspects of society, we often have to argue against the common view that young people are apathetic; that they are not engaged in creating social or political change in their countries and communities. …
Organic News Today: March 4, 2009
Message to Obama – Please Fix the USDA’s Organic Mess President Obama and new USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack are being urged to take immediate action to repair the USDA’s increasingly dysfunctional National Organic Program (NOP). Suspect imports of grains, nuts, and vegetables from China and other countries, questionable organic milk, …
March 3, 2009: Best of Global X/Open Source Giving/Radical Transparency
Online story-telling and social media are now at the center of the modern social enterprise because gathering people online is easier and can be a more effective way to create strong social movements than real-life meetings.
CSE North America launched at the Oscars with GAEA climate neutral olive oil
We congratulate our partner, the Center For Sustainability and Excellence, on the launch of its North American division. – Editor I, Robot download download missing in america online One of the most innovative clients of the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE), GAEA, took advantage of the ecological character of …
VISIBLE STRATEGIES BRINGS AWARD-WINNING ENVIRONMENTALIST LESTER BROWN'S "PLAN B 3.0" TO LIFE ON SCREEN USING SEE-ITTM
Visually experience the plan to save civilization with three clicks of a mouse button VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA February 26, 2009 –/WORLD-WIRE/–Today Visible Strategies, provider of the world’s most visually engaging performance management and communications software, and the Earth Policy Institute, a research organization in Washington, D.C., announced the public launch …
NGLS Compilation of CSO input to the Commission of Experts on the Financial Crisis
53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women The fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be held at UN headquarters in New York from 2-13 March 2009. CSW’s priority theme will be The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving …
Feb. 24, 2009: News from Boston Research Center
BRC 2009 Theme: “Humanizing Our Lives, Humanizing Our World” Can a deeper faith in the potential of the self for positive growth spark a more enduring compassion for others, indeed for all of humanity and the environment supporting us?