[Previous] Chip Ward Essays: CHIP WARD ESSAYS...

 [Next] 'Do or die' year for agriculture « Resources Rese...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[STWR Home Page] UN Commission on Sustainable Development: A Backgrounder - STWR ...: Among the follow-up measures included in the text, Commission delegations called on Member States to strengthen the capacities of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), within their mandates, to provide increased assistance to developing countries, especially Africa, on sustainable agriculture and rural development and food security. The Commission also decided to devote, in 2012 and 2016, and without prejudice to its organization of work, a separate segment at its review sessions to monitor and follow-up implementation of its decisions on Africa taken at its current session.

[It's Getting Hot In Here] Do Americans' Actions Speak Louder than Words on Climate & Energy ...: Kartikeya Singh, born in Jodhpur, India is a graduate of Furman University, where he designed his own major titled "Ecology & Sustainable Development" (BSc.). During 2007-2008 while on the Compton Mentor Fellowship, he conducted research on decentralized renewable energy sources for rural areas in India.

[IISD Linkages] Summary & Analysis of CMS SHARKS III, 8-12 February 2010, Manila ...: Despite these efforts, the increasing demand for fins and shark cartilage, sport fishing and by-catch have led to the depletion of shark stocks, which are 30% lower than two decades ago, and the lack of adequate conservation measures continues to drive several species close to extinction. Given the threats in particular facing the many sharks that migrate globally, therefore, a number of states came together in 2007 in the Seychelles at the first meeting on International Cooperation on Migratory Sharks (SHARKS I) under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species and Wild Animals (CMS) in the recognition that shark conservation and management would benefit from the coordination of efforts of range states and other relevant stakeholders.

[Real-World Economics Review Blog] On the 'Nobel Prize in Economics' and the monopoly of neoclassical ...: Of course, actors within media and politicians are also responsible and can contribute to a democratizing of economics in various ways.1  In articles and books I have pointed to the similarity between the ideology of neoclassical economics and Neo-liberalism as an established political ideology, suggesting that those who believe in Neo-liberalism have special reasons to participate in the debate. As a result of many years of indoctrination of hundreds of thousands of students, there is today a considerable ”˜demand’ for the neoclassical ideology.

[WASH news Africa] Southern African network for sustainable sanitation launched ...: They looked at various urine diversion toilets and other ecological sanitation technologies in various provinces in South Africa. The information will help feed Namibia’s the sanitation strategy and its implementation, as called for by a cabinet decision to improve sanitation.

[r7roundtable's posterous] An additional reference on EPA Region 7 Priorities ...: · Region 7 has awarded more than 100 Brownfields competitive assessment, cleanup, revolving loan fund, and job training grants providing more than $27 million in direct funding to states, local governments and nonprofit organizations to assess, clean up and promote sustainable redevelopment at contaminated sites in the region. In addition to competitive grants, Region 7 has provided more than $17 million in noncompetitive grant funding to Region 7 states and tribes to establish and enhance state and tribal response programs.

[thegreenpages - Ontario] Toronto Greenspiration Events: fun and action - thegreenpages ...: Author of Gay and Gaia: Ethics, Ecology and the Erotic (Pilgrim Press, 1996) and articles in environmental studies and eco-ethics, Dan Spencer has directed programs in human rights in Latin America for the Center for Global Education (Minneapolis) and focused on issues of sustainable land use and sustainable community while teaching in the Philosophy and Religion at Drake University, Iowa. His current research emphasizes community participation in ecological restoration;

[IATP Publications Feed] Promoting Human Rights and the Environment in Trade and Finance Rules: the Conféderation Paysanne (France), the Research Foundation for. Science, Technology and Ecology (India), and Greenpeace Inter- national, and supported by more than 745 other organizations.

[Campus Ecology] Campus Ecology blog - National Wildlife Federation: There was a line, actually two lines, at least six people wide and hundreds of people deep! Everywhere I looked, from the doors leading into the Bella Center to the edges of both the train and bus stops, there were people waiting to pass through security and get their badges made.

[staff blog] 2010 State of the City Address by Mayor Sam Adams:  I paid my taxes (and no, I did not sign a petition calling to reduce taxes)...but now I get less bus service, no free service downtown, higher fares, all because TriMet gets to pay Portland to run a fareless Streetcar system downtown for the rich who can afford to live in a $2000/month rental unit, or a $300K condo (with only one bedroom - not enough for my son, wife and I).  My son started Kindergarten last year, but the route was unwalkable - in a ditch or on an embankment.

[Taber Law Group] January 31, 2010 - Environmental Law and Climate Change Law News ...: Seeking to resuscitate stalled global warming legislation in Washington’s suddenly changed political climate, a bipartisan group of senators including John Kerry of Massachusetts has been conducting private talks this week with the White House and a key business group over an array of concessions sought by Republicans. The election of Scott Brown as Kerry’s colleague has added urgency to the negotiations for a compromise, which would include the Democrats’ goal of limiting carbon emissions while encouraging development of nuclear power, subsidizing coal mining, and drilling for off-shore oil.

[International National Trusts Organisation] International National Trusts Organisation » Blog Archive » COP15 ...: When pressed in our briefing with the question as to how credible was the growing belief that a real outcome will be achieved, the senior Australian negotiator replied “..absolutely possible, indeed we should see a strong outcome”. He said that much will depend on the intensity of the negotiations over the weekend, but he said there was a clear determination of the Danish COP15 presidency and the Secretariat that only such an outcome will be acceptable.

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » “Ecological Peace between Syria and ...: Ali is associate professor of environmental planning at the University of Vermont and the author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future (Yale University Press, 2009) and the editor of Peace Parks; conservation and Conflict Resolution (MIT .

[ICT Blog] Why climate change in Tibet is a global issue - ICT Blog: Tenzin Norbu, who heads the Environment and Development Desk of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, explained how climate change in Tibet is linked to Chinese land use policies. Tibet’s high altitude, rugged terrain and harsh climate resulted in the creation of sustainable systems of traditional agricultural and livestock rearing, which meant that until now, Tibet’s landscape and ecosystem has remained relatively intact.

[Cambridge Forecast Group Blog] ECOLOGY RESEARCH: INDONESIA « Cambridge Forecast Group Blog: Palm Oil in Post-Tsunami Aceh1 points out that “as the province enjoys its new-found peace, and with it a flush of reconstruction and post-conflict related funding from donors and central government, growth of the plantation sector has become one of the government’s priority drivers of economic development.” However, it concludes that the local government and companies should learn from mistakes made in other parts of Indonesia and only develop plantations which “employ sustainable, equitable and environmentally sound practices”.

[India Current Affairs] India Current Affairs » Blog Archive » CRISIS OF GLOBALISATION - M ...: Globalisation first took the form of globalisation of savings. It gave rise to a world in which everything was given to financial capital and almost nothing to labour, in which the entrepreneur gave way to the speculator, in which those who lived on unearned income left the workers far behind, in which the use of leverage, to an unreasonably disproportionate extent, created a form of capitalism in which taking risks with other people’s money was the norm, allowing quick and easy profits but all too often without creating either prosperity or jobs.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Ecological Research, EcoGEOS