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Don't consider native spirituality in mine review, Ottawa urged

April 30, 2012
By Peter O’Neil
Edmonton Journal

OTTAWA - A new federal environmental review panel “does not have any right to attribute significance to the spirituality of a place per se,” Taseko Mines Ltd. president Russell Hallbauer wrote in a letter obtained under the Access to Information Act and provided to the Vancouver Sun by B.C. independent MLA Bob Simpson.

Road to Rio: The moral link to the global economic crisis

April 23, 2012
By Olav Kjørven
United Nations Development Programme

I was honored to host a discussion with Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in contribution to the post-2015 development dialogue on Friday in New York.  Our discussion, focused on the ‘ethos of inclusion’, took place as the global economy may be...

Four Prominent Botanical Institutions Announce Plans to Create First Online World Flora

Missouri Botanical Garden; The New York Botanical Garden;
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Leading Effort to Develop World Flora by 2020

Missouri Botanical Garden
April 23, 2012

Towards an Ethos of Inclusion - A contribution to the post-2015 development dialogue

With Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics

United Nations Development Programme
April 20, 2012

 

Jesuit Forum OPEN SPACE on "Justice in the World"

A publication of the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice

April/May 2012
Volume IV, No. 2

http://www.jesuitforum.ca/sites/default/files/OpenSpace9_0.pdf

The Other Arab Spring

April 7, 2012
By Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times

World Happiness Report: Earth Institute Releases First Survey Of Where Countries Rank On Joy

April 3, 2012
By Daniel Tencer
The Huffington Post Canada

Canada is the fifth-happiest country in the world, according to a social and economic study from a Columbia University think tank.

Seeking Happiness on a Finite and Human-Shaped Planet

April 2, 2012
By Andrew C. Revkin
Dot Earth Blog

America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I

From decline to rebirth

By James Gustave Speth
March/April 2012 issue of Orion magazine

Part one of two. Part two was published in the May/June 2012 issue.

For Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Change Not a Leap of Faith

March 29, 2012
By Michael D. Lemonick
Climate Central

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