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5 Questions For Al Gore

Posted 03.29.2013 | OWN
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Since starring in the Academy Award–winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006), former vice president Al Gore has been the planet's eco-warr...

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Can Humans Really Break The Planet?

Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 05.02.2013 | Green
Read More: Global Change, Planetary Boundaries, Climate, Environment, Tipping Points, All Terrain, Climate Change, Global Tipping Points, Green News
Tom Zeller Jr.

Dire warnings that our localized environmental impacts could trigger global-scale "tipping points" and permanently break the planet have no scientific basis, authors of a new paper argue. Not everyone agrees.

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Reuniting Economics and Ecology for a Sustainable Future

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 09.19.2012 | Green
Read More: Ground Water, Global Change, Triple Bottom Line, Landfills, Natural Resources, Economics, Green News, No-Take Zones, Climate Change, Sustainability, Externalities, Green News
Dr. Reese Halter

Our natural environment and the resource base for the world economy are inexorably linked. Therefore these two crucial parts must come together for the house to remain standing, as our species is now heading toward 8 billion by 2025.

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Think Locally, Occupy Globally: Our Fight Is the World's - and Vice Versa

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.13.2012 | Politics
Read More: Global Change, Kandahar, Apartheid, Poverty, Global Poverty, South Africa, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The struggle goes on -- in Capetown and Durban and Pretoria, in Oakland and Manhattan and Los Angeles, in the hearts and minds of souls of people who fight despair and corruption in the cities, towns, and villages of the world.

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Clinton Global Initiative: A New Way Forward

Monika Mitchell | Posted 11.27.2011 | Impact
Read More: Global Change, Business Commitments, Clinton Global Initiative, Business for a Better World, Change the World, Cgi, Social Good, Hillary Clinton, Make the World a Better Place, President Clinton, cgi2011, New Way Forward, Impact News
Monika Mitchell

Last week after spending three life-changing days at the Clinton Global Initiative , I came away with a profound sense of hope, inspired by all the participants present and by no less than President Clinton himself.

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Educating for Democracy: Japan and Teaching for the Future

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Global Change, Environmental Education, Addictive Behavior, Text-Messaging, Japan, Home News
Joel Shatzky

Future generations of young learners must be educated not just for the present, but the inevitabilities of that future.

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