“Environmental challenges for a world of 7 billion”
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Alessandro Faia
The Guardian (blog)Universities must lead the way on the sustainability agendaThe Guardian (blog)This has to start with staff training and preparation. Via Paola Fiore | Sustainability Expert 
What are you doing to promote sustainability in your community? Share your story and enter the video challenge. 
The president must honour her pledge to protect the Amazon rainforest and block the pending land-use legislationA new land-use law proposed by a faction controlled by parochial and rural interests and passed by Brazilian legislators in April... 
This new project will show the current known location of every plant and animal species but will also track changes to populations due to things like climate change. 
For a growing number of companies, going green is now a core business strategy. What do these companies leading the way in environmental sustainability have in common? Via Gill Mortimer 
Using field trips, editorial cartoons and even parent objections, four innovative teachers are bringing global warming out of the science classroom... Via Cathryn Wellner 
The International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability will be held 23 - 25 January 2013 at the International Conference Center Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. This interdisciplinary ...
Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports. One of the great myths about the Argentine economy that is repeated nearly every day is that the rapid growth of the Argentine economy during... 
Energy security and climate change present massive threats to global security, military planners say, with connections and consequences spanning the world. 
Suzanne Fallender, director of CSR Strategy and Communications for Intel “We have been doing a lot of things around sustainability for a very long time,” says Suzanne Fallender, director of CSR (corporate social responsibility) Strategy and... 
CDC - Blogs - Your Health – Your Environment Blog – Earth Day: What is Environmental Public Health? Botswana's diamond mining sector accounts for 31 percent of the country's economic output -- and a glistening De Beers five-diamond bracelet sells online for $1,500. 
There is evidence that more lives are being lost to heart and respiratory ills, as well as infectious diseases spread by carriers whose habitats are expanding. |
Street lights can cause long-term ecological changes, study says http://t.co/aAFN8X6A #ecology... The once rare brown argus butterfly is on the move , expanding its range and numbers in the U.K. 
Parmigiano has long been revered as a perfect ingredient, but it will be years before farmers can recover from this earthquakeAs if there is not enough to worry about in Europe with the euro, the earthquake in northern Italy has made an enormous...
National security expert Michael Klare believes the struggle for the world’s resources will be one of the defining political and environmental realities of the 21st century. 
Modern technology has enabled anyone with an internet connection to communicate to people all over the world and access virtually limitless information. One such creative innovation, crowdfunding, a relatively new phenomenon that uses the Internet to source funding from anyone who believes in the cause. Via Gill Mortimer
Could your social network influence your behavior? | IStock photo. By now you’ve undoubtedly heard that Facebook allows people to share their organ donor status.
Ian Sample: It's hard to imagine campaigners and scientists will resolve their differences, but they must seize this opportunity for open dialogue...
By Henning Gloystein and Alessandra PrenticeLONDON (Reuters) - The shale energy boom is fuelling a rise in the burning of waste gas after years of decline, a World Bank source told Reuters ahead of the release of new data, giving environmentalists...
Large-scale global survey of corals by Univ. of Miami using high sensitivity genetic analysis shows many coral species can host multiple algal symbionts -- including some thought to help survive warming oceans. 
The recent Cambridge University Leadership Programme looked at sustainable development in health services worldwide. 
Stephen Curry: Research that is funded by the public should be freely available to all – a move to open access modes of publication is overdue... China's agricultural security is at risk from climate change and the selling of arable lands. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2012/04/03/Chinas-grain-at-risk-from-climate-change/UPI-19831333475730/#ixzz1r65hOx3g Via CGIAR Climate |
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