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We Must Mobilize Partnerships Needed to Shift World onto a More Sustainable Trajectory of Growth

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In Rio, Secretary-General Says in Message, ‘We Must Mobilize Partnerships Needed to Shift World onto a More Sustainable Trajectory of Growth and Development’

United Nations
May 11, 2012

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Environment Day, 5 June:

BC's Emerging Green Faith Movement

Churchgoers opposed to tankers, pipelines say activism expresses compassion for God’s creation.

By By Adam Pez
The Tyee
May 9, 2012

Christ Church Cathedral stands overshadowed by modern glass and steel skyscrapers in Vancouver’s downtown core. The century-old Anglican church is a bit of Vancouver heritage, a reminder of the province’s British colonial roots. When...

Minding Animals Bulletin No.11

May 3, 2012
Minding Animals International

Please find attached the final Minding Animals Bulletin to be released before the Utrecht Conference (MA2).

Inside this edition you will also find:

Bishops and Extractive Industries: A Human Face of Mining

May 2, 2012
By Katherine Marshall
Huffington Post

Secretary-General on Buddha's Belief that Changing Man's Nature Changes World

 

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In Message, Secretary-General Says Buddha’s Belief that Changing Man’s Nature Changes World Offers Insight to Improve Conditions for Planet, Inhabitants

United Nations
May 1, 2012

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Day of Vesak, 5 May:

The Pinchot Letter: Leadership in Conservation Thought, Policy and Action

The Pinchot Institute for Conservation
Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 2012
http://www.pinchot.org/uploads/download?fileId=1140

Contents:

* Essential Tools for Sustaining America’s Forests: Reauthorizing Stewardship Contracts on Federal Lands

* A Conservation Ethic for a Changing World...

How Print and Computer-Mediated Learning Undermine Ecological Intelligence


From:   The Way Forward: Educational Reforms that Focus on the Cultural Commons and the Linguistic Roots of the Ecological/Cultural Crises

 By C. A. Bowers

An e-book published by the Eco-Justice Press, 2012.

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America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II

A new politics for a new dream

By James Gustave Speth
May/June 2012 issue of Orion magazine

Part one of this article.

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...

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