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Mexico’s Riviera Maya: Ground Zero for Sustainable Development
It’s holiday season and tourists’ pockets, wallets and purses are going jingle-jangle as they disembark from planes, cruise ships, buses and automobiles to the hotels resorts and towns of the Mayan...
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The Future of Sustainable Development: A Citizen Journalism Project
Beacon is a crowdfunding platform for journalists. For more than two years Beacon has supported hundreds of worthwhile projects, adding a perspective to journalism free from the internet echo-chamber...
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The Terrifying Truth About Climate Change
An apocalyptic future is materializing that threatens human civilization and all life on the planet. The truth about climate change is more terrifying than our worst nightmares. We are teetering on...
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Glory Eclipsed by Shame at the Rio Summer Games: A Social and Environmental...
Rio Olympic Games Special Feature : Brazil, the good, the bad, and ugly Brazil is a complex amalgam of sustainability successes alongside epic social and environmental fails. The interplay of heroes...
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The Art of the Possible: Paris Agreement Comes Into Force
The mood in Paris last December was unmistakable, the optimism palpable. After decades of gridlock and disappointment, the negotiation at the COP21 climate conference held to its promise of progress....
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Environmental Advocacy Under a Trump Presidency
Election 2016, the morning after Wednesday morning, coming to grips with a Trump presidency: The slow motion wreck that was election 2016 has finally ended, the smoke has cleared, and now we find...
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Calls to Reinstate Water as a Public Good Arise in Chile
Ostensibly intended as a mechanism to allocate increasingly precious freshwater resources more efficiently and equitably, privatization of water rights is causing ructions in Chile. Water prices have...
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Standing Rock Sioux Move From Protesting To Calling For Divestment
A strategy of protest Protests at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota over the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) occurred in 2016, catching the attention of environmentalists and the news...
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Putting Solar Panels Along the Path of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Activists opposing the Keystone XL pipeline have a new way to fight it using solar panels. Solar XL is a coalition led by indigenous activists. The campaign aims to install solar panels along the...
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Twenty-Six Individuals Now Own Wealth Equivalent to that of 50 percent of...
The wealth-and-income divide continues to widen globally amid a growing wave of government repression of free expression and human rights, according to a recently released report from Oxfam...
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