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Globe Gears Up For World Environment Day Celebrations

Mongolia Hosting Day Aimed at Reducing Food Waste as Events Take Place across the World
     
United Nations Environment Programme
May 31, 2013

NAIROBI – Hundreds of thousands of people are gearing up across the globe to take part in World Environment Day, the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action.

Commencement Address at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, by James Gustave Speth

Commencement Address by James Gustave Speth

University of Massachusetts at Boston

May 31, 2013

To read this address, visit:
http://fore.research.yale.edu/files/Speth_UMB_Commencement.pdf

Water Ethics Newsletter

May 2013

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=31982f6e4937945bfaddf6712&id=70bf222ab0&e=495d1f20da

It's time to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry

It makes no sense to pay for one’s pension by investing in companies that make sure we won’t have a planet to retire on

By Bill McKibben
The Guardian
May 30, 2013

Keystone pipeline foe awarded $100K prize

May 28, 2013
By Zack Colman
The Hill

Prominent climate activist and Keystone XL oil sands pipeline opponent Bill McKibben has won a Norway-based prize awarded for environmental work.

McKibben received the Sophie Prize — which comes with a cash award of $100,000 — for his work with 350.org, the climate advocacy group he co-...

A Vital River, Drained of Wildlife

May 24, 2013
By Jeff Opperman
New York Times

Jeff Opperman, a senior freshwater scientist with the Nature Conservancy, is taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip down the Mekong River in Southeast Asia with his wife and two children, ages 8 and 10....

Dolphins gain unprecedented protection in India

May 24, 2013
By Saroja Coelho
Deutsche Welle

India has officially recognized dolphins as non-human persons, whose rights to life and liberty must be respected. Dolphin parks that were being built across the country will instead be shut down.

Move Our Money, Protect Our Planet: God, Earth, & Strategy

May 23, 2013
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

 

A Spiritually Rooted, Strategically Focused Plan of Action on the Climate Crisis

During the past month, the Board of The Shalom Center and the steering committee of Interfaith Moral Action on Climate have been seeking what might be called a “spiritual...

Christian charity calls on Liberal Democrats to vote for decarbonisation target

May 23, 2013
Operation Noah Press Release

Operation Noah calls on Liberal Democrat MPs to vote for a crucial amendment to the Energy Bill in parliament on 3 June, and not to let a once-in-a-generation opportunity slip through their fingers.

The amendment, which sets a target to decarbonise power generation by 2030, has been proposed by Tim Yeo MP, Conservative Chair of the...

UNEP Launches Knowledge and Cooperation Platform for a Sustainable Future

“Doing More and Better with Less” Just One Click Away

United Nations Environment Programme
May 21, 2013

Nairobi - In the face of economic crises, increasing environmental degradation and the menace of climate change, the global community needs to do more and better with a more-efficient use of the Earth’s natural resources.

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