Sustainable Development

Rio Dialogues Part I: WHY Should I Even Care?

Elischia Fludd | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: uncsd2012, Sustainable Development, Rio+20, Undp, Rio 2012, Climate Change, Environmentalism, Global Warming, World News

In the big lead up to Rio+20, the community concerned about sustainable development is all a-buzz. But critics note that the level of civil society input lacks luster.

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Don't Just Go Green, Go Harmony

Elischia Fludd | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Green, Bill Clinton, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Operations Summit, Environmentalism, Green News

I was curious: How were their respective fields addressing sustainability within poverty eradication and peace? The colleagues at my table responded with thoughtful silence.

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The Top 10 Green Dining & Drinking Destinations In New York City

Michael P. Owens | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Sustainable Living, Earth Week, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Green Week, Sustainable Buildings, Sustainable Food, Sustainable, Home News

I spent the past month researching and visiting venues that embrace sustainability as a core value of their business. A few thousands calories later (and one small hangover), I am happy to share my findings with you.

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WATCH: Sustainable Design and the Water Crisis

Jonathan Kirby | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Waterless, Bblog-Levi2, Sustainable Development, Green Design, Water Crisis, Video, Green News

Roughly one out of every eight people on the planet do not have enough clean water to drink. Combine this fact with the design thinking of Dieter Rams, "Good design is as little design as possible..." and it's easy to see why we ended up asking ourselves, how do we do more, with less?

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This Easter, Let's Spend That $16 Billion Helping Those In Need

Brooke Edwards | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Easter, Heifer International, Alternative-Giving, Sustainable Development, Heifer-International, Impact News

This weekend, roughly 2 billion Christians around the world will celebrate one of the most important religious holidays of the year. Along with the ...

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What Is the Best Earth Day Pledge?

Mark Hostetler | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Green, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Lawns, Green Living, Green Energy, Earth Day, Biodiversity, Earth Day 2012, Lawns Environment, Green News

In the end, all environmental pledges are important but I have seen many people purchase compact fluorescent bulbs and place solar panels on their homes only to irrigate, fertilize, spray pesticides and mow their expansive lawns.

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Sustainability Is the Sensible Alternative

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Sustainable Food, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Sustainability, Climate Change Denial, Agenda 21, Rio+20, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Development, Earth Summit, Rio Earth Summit, World Water Day, Global Poverty, Video, World News

More people in the world are living better, but the natural world that underpins this prosperity is constantly being eroded.

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Frontiers of the Global Village

Monica Gutierrez | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Children Rights, World Hunger, Water, War, Frontiers, Immigration, Aids, Impact News

When are we going to realize that we are all humans and all human issues concern us all? Can we get our act together and just do something? Or have we reached our ultimate frontier? There is no easy answer.

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Green Plowshares in the Pacific Northwest

William S. Becker | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Joints Chiefs of Staff, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Pacific Northwest, National Security, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development, National Strategic Narrative, Center for Climate Strategies, Green Economy, Green Buildings, Mark Mykleby, Clean Economy, Foreign Policy, Green News

Three governors and the Premier of British Columbia announced an action plan to make the Pacific Northwest's homes more energy efficient, its vehicles less dependent on oil, and its communities less vulnerable to the threat of global climate change.

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Creating a Cycle of Sustainable Change

Reid Hoffman | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Developing World, Microloans, Sustainable Development, Microfinance Lending, Microfinance, Kiva, Microlending, Impact News

In Silicon Valley, we deploy technologies and networks to change the world. Can we deploy these techniques in an effort to break the worldwide cycle of poverty at a scale in the millions?

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The Power of Sustainable Protein in the 21st Century

Johann Tergesen | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Food, Food System, Overfishing, Green News

How can we revolutionize the food system to ensure that healthy proteins, an essential nutrient for human health, are available to a global population estimated to reach from 7.5 to 10.5 billion people by 2050?

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To Alleviate Poverty, Biodiversity Conservation is Critical

Will Turner | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Bioscience, Conservation, Sustainable Development, Global Poverty, Poverty, Biodiversity, Science News

Developed and developing economies cannot continue to ask the world's poor to shoulder the burden of protecting globally important ecosystem services for everyone else's benefit without compensation in return.

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From Microfinance to Metafinance: A New Tool to Fight Global Poverty

Melanie Walker | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Community Projects, Infrastructure, Sustainable Development, Metafinance, Microfinance, Community Loans, Good News News

The microfinance revolution created new ways for the world's poor to secure loans. But microfinance institutions normally don't have the capacity or authority to finance community-level infrastructure projects.

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Protecting Our Oceans - Key to Sustainability

Aron Cramer | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Seafood, Oceans, Green News

What happens in our oceans does not stay in our oceans.

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Mike Bloomberg's Impressive Sustainability Record

Steven Cohen | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Urban Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, Green News

One of his greatest lasting legacies as mayor will be the integration of environmental protection and economic development. Michael Bloomberg is New York's first sustainability mayor.

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Let's Talk About the Future We Want

William S. Becker | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Art, Sustainable Development, Global Conversation, Future, Rio+20, Ban Ki-Moon, Future We Want, United Nations, Technology News

How would our lives be improved if we deployed the best sustainable development technologies and practices? How would it impact future generations?

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Education Is the Answer to Sustainable Development

Kazuhiko Takemoto | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Population, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, 7 Billion People, United Nations, Green News

Changing behaviors now will benefit the rights, health and well-being of future generations to come. It is our shared responsibility to make sure this happens.

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Rebuilding El Salvador Sustainably

Vicki Gass | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: El Salvador, Immigration, Migration, Rural Development, Climate Change, Flooding, Sustainable Development, World News

What was more terrible than the civil war of the 1980s and Hurricane Mitch, which ravaged the region in 1998? Tropical Depression 12-E, a storm that dropped more than five feet of water over ten days, forcing 60,000 people into shelters.

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We Need a Practical and Comprehensive Jobs Program

Steven Cohen | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Job Market, Jobs Program, Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Unemployment Rate, Green News

We are now part of a fast changing global economy that will require constant adjustments if we are to take full advantage of the talents of our people. It is not acceptable to passively acquiesce to what is starting to look like permanently high levels of unemployment.

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Change a Child's Life: Make a Film or Check Into a Hotel

Karin Badt | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Cineastas Granada, Granada, Women's Filmmaking, Hotel Del Corazon, Education Reform, Pedofilia, Entrepreneurship, Nicaragua, Sustainable Development, NGOs in Nicaragua, Thalia Drori, Girls Education, Impact News

Cineastas de Granada has helped over 100 girls empower themselves with a camera by teaching girls how to find their stories, choose their shots and put the film into production.

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The Political Impact of Occupy Wall Street

Steven Cohen | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Protests, Sustainable Development, Concentration of Wealth, Government Regulations, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Like many in my generation, my first taste of political involvement was in the movement to end the war in Vietnam and achieve civil rights. As a teena...

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Are Monsanto's Days Numbered? 50+ Organizations Urging GMO Ban

Organic Authority.com | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Ban Gmos, Monsanto, Rio 20, Genetically Modified, Sustainable Development, Gmos, Agroecological, Green News

A document signed by more than 50 civil society organizations (CSOs) is asking the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development scheduled to take place in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012, to ban the use of genetically modified foods.

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As Debt Talks Crescendo, Let's Not Give the World Bank a Free Ride

Michelle Chan | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Energy, Green News, Sustainable Development, Coal, Climate Change, World Bank, Friends of the Earth, Green News

You would think that the Obama administration and Congress would want to make sure that the money they spend is spent wisely. That certainly doesn't appear to be the case when it comes to the World Bank Group.

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Our Bankrupt Political Dialogue and the Human Costs of Budget Cuts

Steven Cohen | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Population Growth, Financial Crisis, Politics, Sustainable Development, Social Security, Economy, Politics News

I find the discussion of deficits and cutting benefits curiously devoid of content. These cuts are not economic theories but economic realities; they have real impact on real people.

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SUNY, Sustainability and the Reinvention of New York

Kyle Rabin | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Suny, SUNY ESF, Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York State, State University of New York, New York News

(Originally published at Ecocentric) As a State University of New York (SUNY) alumnus looking back over the past two decades, I can attest to the fac...

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