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Who cannot appreciate the intensity of Frances Moore Lappé’s vision “that ideas have enormous power and that humans are capable of changing failing ideas in order to turn our planet toward life”? Starting with Diet for a Small Planet (1971), she has written ten books describing democratic, humane, and enlightened solutions to hunger and social and environmental problems, empowering people both locally and...
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In 1992, the year of the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Concerned Scientists warned that a “great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.” A year later, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development reported...
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Vancouver, Canada. The organizing committee for the Vancouver Olympics is making a bold green...
In the Sudan, decades of war and unrest, intensified by the most recent conflict in Darfur, have created the world's...
It used to be that the only exports of the Mamak Landfill in Ankara, Turkey were the powerful stench of rotting...
"My aim is to create a multi-million-person community of supporters that can respond to any conservation emergency...
Women in the small village of Tacarigua de la laguna in Venezuela are turning to recycling to earn a living....
Solar power has been, ironically, slow to catch on in the sunshine state.
But developers of a new city aim...
Navigating war zones has never been easy for aid workers and UN agencies. As the fighting earlier this year in Gaza...
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Solutions to the world’s most pressing problems often originate at the grassroots level. A new non-profit organization uses multi-media technology and a global team of volunteers to find those...
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With revenue from video games set to overtake the film industry this year, socially-minded programmers have started taking advantage of the format's ability to reach younger generations. Games for...
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In 1992, the year of the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Concerned Scientists warned that a “great change in our stewardship of the...
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The news from China usually consists of untold environmental devastation scarcely hidden by a monolithic single party state that seems content to expend the environment for the sake of creating...
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Proudly hailing Obama as “the most food-centric chief executive since Thomas Jefferson,” www.obamafoodorama...
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Move over Obama! Fancy a shot at playing a politician who must rescue his country from global warming, whilst juggling the demands of his constituency for basic resources? This game throws you in...
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If you ever wondered what happened to the anti-globalization and climate change protests of the late nineties and turn of the century, then look no further than "It's Getting Hot in Here," the...
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Bowdoin College's Phil Camill offers a fresh perspective to the issues surrounding environmental change.
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Since 1976, the Tellus Institute has been working to bring fresh thinking and scientific rigor to environmental and social...
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