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Video Friday: A New Story of People
This video from SustainableMan offers an eloquent essay from Charles Eisenstein, author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics. Eisenstein proposes that to change our world, we need to change...
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Climate Change Makes Arctic Region a Crucible for New Global Governance Regimes
With temperatures warming and summer sea ice melting even faster than climate scientists’ forecasts, the Arctic region has become a flashpoint and center of debate for international, as well as...
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Making Green Sexy and Spiritual
Sustainability needs a new language that is more accessible and more compelling to the average person. Business, government, and other organizations are making strides advancing sustainability but we...
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Video Friday: The Plastic Bank – Monetizing Waste Plastic
Social plastic The Plastic Bank is an organization and a movement aimed at removing plastic waste from the world’s oceans, beaches and waterways in a process that empowers people living in poverty to...
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World Water Week- Access to Safe Water: Takeaways from Stockholm
In 2010 the United Nations passed resolution 64/292 mandating the basic human right to water and sanitation. Nearly 800 million people lack access to safe water More than one billion don’t have basic...
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My Vision for the New Earth: Life in a Low Carbon Economy
By Roberta Ward Smiley Editor’s note: Roberta Ward Smiley is a colleague and the founder of La Reserva Forest Foundation in Costa Rica. You can read about the work of the Foundation on Roberta’s...
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COP 19 and Why Deadlines Produce Results
Many are once again disappointed with the outcome out of this year’s climate negotiations, but as with previous years, we did manage to salvage an agreement at the eleventh hour. At the end of the...
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First UN Environment Assembly Marks Environmental Coming of Age
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is taking on a higher profile among the UN’s sprawling organizational framework as an ever greater number of wild species and ecosystems are at risk due...
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IUCN: Value of Natural World Heritage Sites Goes Far Beyond Monetary Gain
Shining a light on the tremendous “life-supporting role” natural ecosystems and biodiversity provide societies, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) held its annual World Parks...
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Catholics Mobilize, Take Action to Address Climate Change
From the top-down and bottom-up, the world’s Roman Catholics are mobilizing in an attempt to get world leaders to take stronger actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change and at the same time...
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The Climate Leadership of the Most Powerful Women in the Christian World
As explained recently by Katherine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, those who deny the science of climate change are both blind and immoral. Jefferts Schori is not only a...
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Jeffrey Sachs: 2015 A Critical Year for Sustainable Development
Jeffrey Sachs, UN Advisor on the Millennium Development Goals and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, explains why 2015 is a critical year for global sustainable development. 2015...
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Worldwatch State of the World 2015: Hidden Threats to Sustainability
Founded in 1974 by Lester Brown, The Worldwatch Institute is an independent global environmental research organization using fact-based analysis to develop solutions to some of the most intractable...
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Ocean Health, Biodiversity Loss Among Top Challenges Facing Humanity
Cooperative governance in conserving and protecting the world’s oceans, stemming the tide of “wild” ecosystems and biodiversity loss, and crafting a global strategy to address the risks of the spread...
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Pope Francis Calls on “All People of Good Will” to Care for Creation
At a time when the influence of institutional religion is waning in many part of the world, Pope Francis remains one of the most trusted and popular people on Earth. Leader of an estimated 1.2 billion...
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Our Common Future Under Climate Change: The Challenge and Opportunity
Living in a post-carbon world – The largest international scientific meeting on climate change concluded this week in Paris, reinforcing the idea that 2015 is a crossroads for action on global warming....
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GHR Foundation Helps Build Interntional Trust Through Faith-Based Communities
This post first appeared in TriplePundit Nigeria is a land of contrasts and conflict. Too often potential allies are mistaken as enemies and, for the nation’s more than 184 million people, one key path...
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Advancing Green Schools and Clean Technologies in California: An Interview...
Carl Smith is focused on the development of editorial and educational content relating to public sector sustainability goals in California. He is also focused on the strategies, best practices and...
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The World We Want: A Conversation with Amina J. Mohammed on the Sustainable...
This post first appeared in TriplePundit This weekend world leaders met at the United Nations in New York City to define a sustainable development agenda through 2030, a process built on the successes,...
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Climate and Prosperity: Two Roads Converge in Paris
Next week delegates. ministers, heads-of-state and civil socity meet in Paris at COP21 in hopes of striking an international commitment limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial...
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