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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

The U.N. Happiness Project

March 28, 2012
By Timothy W. Ryback
New York Times

Next Monday, the United Nations will implement Resolution 65/309, adopted unanimously by the General Assembly in July 2011, placing “happiness” on the global agenda.

Religious leaders unite to bless sustainability

March 21, 2012
By Sharon Udasin
Jerusalem Post

Muslim, Jewish and Christian clerics gathered on Monday to promote cooperation among spiritual leaders regarding reinforcing the importance of environmental protection among their individual communities.

“Religious leaders and institutions have the potential to mobilize billions of followers in...

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