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Billions of trees, cleaner stoves and the power of sugar: 30 Ways in 30 Days to meet Climate Change

“30 Ways in 30 Days” Showcases More Climate Change Solutions from Around the World

United Nations Environment Programme
November 19, 2010

Nairobi, Kenya - The power of building blocks to counter erosion, the effect of a more efficient cooking stove on fragile gorilla habitat, and the inspiring campaign that has registered 10 billion trees planted in four...

Ecological Civilization

November 19, 2010
By James Miller
Sustainable China Blog

I was in Beijing and Tianjin recently for a week of conferences related to “ecological civilization” (shengtai wenming 生态文明) an important new buzzword, the precise meaning of which thought leaders and government officials are vying to define.

The Hindu Method to Save the Planet

November 15, 2010
By Pankaj Jain
Patheos

Forum on Teilhard Attracts 300

November 13, 2010
By Marie Elena Giossi
The Tablet

An evening film and lecture presentation illuminating the life and thought of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin drew more than 300 people to the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, Nov. 4

The Tablet Forum on Teilhard de Chardim was the fifth event in a free forum series, sponsored by The Tablet and organized by...

Toward a global green economy

Financial sustainability will not happen just by fixing the contradictions inherent in existing economic models.

By Achim Steiner
UN Undersecretary General and Executive Director of UNEP

November 9, 2010
JoongAng Daily

The G-20 has acted to stabilize banks and to counter the financial and economic crisis: A recovery is under way, albeit and in...

"30 Ways in 30 Days" rolls out more solutions to climate change challenge

November 8, 2010
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi, Kenya - Week two of UNEP’s 30 Ways in 30 Days reveals how an investment of US$100,000 has improved vital reservoirs in Togo, shows the true environmental impact of the buildings we live and work in and reveals how cleaner stoves are improving health, benefiting the environment and potentially generating millions of...

The Rise of the Tao

November 5, 2010
By Ian Johnson
New York Times

Program seeks to get religions involved in sustainable farming, food systems

November 5, 2010
By James Bruggers
Louisville Courier-Journal

An international program announced Friday seeks to marshal the hearts, minds and buying power of the world’s religious faiths to change farming and food systems seen by many as bad for the planet and people’s health.

Time to End War against the Earth

November 4, 2010
By Vandana Shiva
The Age

When we think of wars in our times, our minds turn to Iraq and Afghanistan. But the bigger war is the war against the planet. This war has its roots in an economy that fails to respect ecological and ethical limits - limits to inequality, limits to injustice, limits to greed and economic concentration.

From bamboo bikes to biomass briquettes: UNEP unveils SEED Award Winners

November 3, 2010
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi - A novel solar device that turns waste heat into electricity in rural China, a Ugandan business that manufactures stationery from agricultural waste, a bamboo bicycle project in Ghana and a female-run business in South Africa making a hand-held laundry device that saves water are among the 30 winners of the 2010 SEED...

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