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Food waste harms climate, water, land and biodiversity - new FAO report

September 11, 2013
United Nations Environment Programme

Direct Economic Costs of $750 billion Annually  

Better Policies Required, and “Success Stories” Need to be Scaled Up and Replicated

Rome – The waste of a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year is not only causing major economic losses but also wreaking...

British Columbia: Coastal Guardian Watchmen Ready To Uphold First Nations Ban On Trophy Hunting

September 11, 2013
Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources

With trophy hunters descending on BC’s Central Coast for the opening of grizzly season, Guardian Watchmen patrol vessels from First Nations communities are once again heading out to monitor compliance with tribal law.

UNEP Welcomes Renewed Commitment by World Leaders to Phase Out Climate-Damaging HFCs

September 10, 2013
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has welcomed an agreement by world leaders at the G20 summit in Moscow to renew efforts to tackle climate change by reducing emissions of potent greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

UNEP Signs Agreement to Improve Monitoring of Hundreds of International Environmental Accords

September 9, 2013
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has signed a new agreement with one of the world’s most respected global auditing bodies to track progress towards the implementation of international environmental agreements covering climate change, hazardous waste, biodiversity, and other issues...

A savior of tree species: Life's mission inspired by angel

September 7, 2013
By Francis X. Donnelly
The Detroit News

Copemish – David Milarch believes he died and came back to life. And the reason was God had a mission for him.

The mission was simple if grandiose: Clone the biggest trees and cover the world with them.

The north Michigan nurseryman had little money, education or experience with cloning.

Few...

The potential of religion for Earth Stewardship

By Gregory E. Hitzhusen and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Volume 11, Issue 7
September 2013
Pages 368–376.
http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/120322

Future of Wind Power in Pakistan

August 23, 2013
Opinion Piece by Adnan H. Satti, Research Associate
MUSLIM Institute

Pakistan is a country blessed with the natural resources in abundance, but ineffective use of the available resources denied Pakistan of progress it deserved in social, economic and industrial sectors.

Earth Corps Event in NYC Update

August 2013
Franciscan Earth Corps

Religion, nature and urbanization among China's ethnic minorities

August 16, 2013
By James Miller
Sustainable China Blog

The future China chooses will dictate the future of the planet

August 16, 2013
By Georg Kell
The Guardian

China is the largest contributor to global warming and also the biggest investor in renewables. The future it chooses will affect us all, writes Georg Kell

The call by the Chinese government for an “ecological civilisation” which aims to control pollution and greenhouse gas emissions may sound like...

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