For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his nation's forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes. The campaign received major support last week when Norway announced a $30 million commitment on ... keep reading
Written by Ben Block - Worldwatch Institute yesterday, about Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Logging, Politics & Government, Pollution, Poverty & Development, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
In order to generate excitement around humble dirt - the star of a new movie bearing its name - people are being encouraged to visit the official site and share their own soil stories. Dirt! The Movie, due out in December, tells the amazing story of humans and our relationship with the ... keep reading
Written by Kate R. this week, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Deforestation, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Food, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Permaculture, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development, Weather
When the world thinks of forests and their value to offset global warming, tropical forests come to mind. A report released last week shows that the global impact of Canada’s boreal forest, which stores nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, has been vastly underestimated. The ... keep reading
Written by Canadian Boreal Iniative this month, about Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Weather
Money-Changers in Democracy’s Temple: There is a scene in the New Testament (Matthew 21:12) where Jesus throws the money-changers out of the temple. We could use some of that in the halls of Congress. While the U.S. Capitol is not the National Cathedral, members of Congress are ... keep reading
Written by Bill Becker this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Events, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development
Oxfam’s messages on the battering effects of climate change on poorer countries continue with the publication this week of their report Bolivia: Climate Change, Poverty and Adaptation. Poverty and injustice in many countries of the world is what Oxfam works on, and this focus has inevitably led to concern ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development
“The future of our planet can be found now, on the frontiers of climate change.” That’s how freelance journalist Stephan Faris frames his new book Forecast: The Surprising – and Immediate – Consequences of Climate Change. He visits and talks with people in regions already experiencing some of the early effects ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Clean Technologies, Consumerism, Deforestation, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Events, Finance & Money, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development, Recycling, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, War, Water, Weather (2 comments)
Oxfam has called on the US to join Europe in laying its climate finance cards on the table as international climate talks opened in Barcelona yesterday. Real progress on climate finance is possible for the first time after European leaders, meeting in Brussels on Friday, outlined their proposal for how ... keep reading
Written by Oxfam this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Events, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development
The Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests, a bipartisan, non-profit group of business, government, and conservation leaders released a report on October 7th asking the United States policymakers to cut emissions from tropical deforestation by half by 2020. The group is co-chaired by Lincoln Chafee, former US senator, Rhode ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell this month, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Logging, Politics & Government, Pollution, Poverty & Development, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
This weeks CSR-Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur touched on several critical issues for the region. One contentious topic is palm oil. While organizations, like the WWF lauded Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), might have tried to add legitimacy to the notion that palm oil can be cultivated in a ... keep reading
Written by Chris Tobias last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Events, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Logging, Media, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Poverty & Development (3 comments)
A recent review paper by the US Geological Survey suggests that the arctic could potentially alter the Earth’s climate by becoming a source of global atmospheric carbon dioxide. In the new review, David McGuire of the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, along with ... keep reading
Written by Kate R. last month, about Air Quality, Children and Families, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
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