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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
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Updated: 8 days ago
Women Need Water Rights, Not Just Technologies
In poor communities, technologies are often touted as panaceas for
poverty. For wom...
Areas: Hydrology and the Global Water Cycle, Water and Energy, Water and Sustainable Development, Water Law and Policy, Water Quality and Health, Water Rights, Water Supply and Conservation, Watershed Management, Sustainable Urban Environmental Services, Sanitation ...
Type: Website - Author: Masum Momaya
Type: Website - Author: Masum Momaya
Updated: about 1 month ago
Mekong's dams wreak havoc on rural poor
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
CHIANG RAI, Thailand - In a rush to emulate Thailand's model of
building dams in the name of development, countries that share the
...
Areas: Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Acid Rain, Ecosystem Services, Coastal Ecology, Marine Ecology and Conservation, Land Restoration, Land Stewardship, Natural Resource Conservation, Restoration Ecology, Electric Power ...
Type: Article - Author: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Type: Article - Author: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Updated: 3 months ago
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Announcing Earth Action Mentor and the Diploma in Applied Permaculture ...
Areas: Aquaculture, Internet, Water and Sustainable Development, Farm Ecosystem Management, Gardening, Permaculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability Education, Renewable Energy
Type: Website - Author: Doniga Markegard
Type: Website - Author: Doniga Markegard
Updated: 3 months ago
Water is life! - a Model for Renaturation of Dry Regions
In southern Portugal, a pilot model shows how the desertification of the Mediterranean and other threatened places in the world can be stop...
Areas: Permaculture, Organic Farming, Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Biocultural Diversity, Seed Conservation, Youth Participation, Communication Training, Community Resources, Community Training, Land Restoration ...
Type: Website - Author: Leila Dregger
Type: Website - Author: Leila Dregger
Updated: 4 months ago
Sierra Permaculture Design
Permaculture design, consulting & project management for homes, farms, ranches, retreats and public facilities.
Permaculture provides positive, sustainable solutions ...
Areas: Permaculture, Agroecology, Organic Farming, Rural Farming Communities, Ecosystem Services, Land Restoration, Culture and Sustainability, Sustainability Education, Energy Flow in Ecosystems, Energy Efficiency and Conservation ...
Type: Website - Author: Paul Racko
Type: Website - Author: Paul Racko
Updated: 4 months ago
IMPLEMENTATION OF FUTUROLOGICAL CENTERS
A memorandum from the peace research center Tamera in Portugal
The globalisation of peace is not realized through mega-systems but through new lif...
Areas: Organic Farming, Permaculture, Arts Education, Biodiversity Conservation, Youth-led Organizations, Youth Education and Empowerment, Communication Training, Community Participation, Community Training, Leadership Training ...
Type: Website - Author: Dieter Duhm
Type: Website - Author: Dieter Duhm
Updated: 4 months ago
We often forget what we as individuals can to do to make this World a better place to live in and spend time only spreading negatives about humanity, forgetting the basic human nature of wanting t...
Areas: Peace and Peace Building, Globalization Impacts, Global Food Supply and Sustainability, Public Health, Soil Conservation and Management, Air Quality and Pollution, Animal Welfare and Rights, Arts Activism, Biocultural Diversity, Business Firm and Organization Sustainability ...
Type: Website - Author: Glenna Shaw
Type: Website - Author: Glenna Shaw
Updated: 4 months ago
Analysis of World Bank financed water privatization in Senegal
by Hawa Ba
reprinted from Pambazuka
2006-07, Issue 262
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/35714
In 1995, in accordance with th...
Areas: Soil Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Conservation and Recreation, Fish, Human Rights Education, Social Development, Agricultural Water Conservation and Management, Acid Rain, Ecosystem Services, Coastal Ecology ...
Type: Other - Author: Hawa Ba
Type: Other - Author: Hawa Ba
Updated: 5 months ago
This report prepared under a collaborative partnership between the Ocean Conservancy and UNEP Regional Seas Programme, provides an overview of the status of marine litter in UNEP's assisted Regiona...
Areas: Coastal and Marine Human Impacts, Coastal and Marine Law and Policy, Coastal and Marine Pollution, Aquaculture, Recycling and Reuse, Water Pollution, Global Pollution
Type: Other - Author: Ljubomir Jeftic, Seba Sheavly, and Ellik Adler
Type: Other - Author: Ljubomir Jeftic, Seba Sheavly, and Ellik Adler
Updated: 6 months ago
Just inaugurated an Expert Blog on CSR and Sustainability on www.justmeans.com, one of the leading web platforms for CSR.
If you are interested in sustainability, ethics or CSR, you might want to c...
Areas: Arts Activism, Performing Arts, Business Firm and Organization Sustainability, Ecological Economics, Ecotourism, Natural Capitalism, Responsible Business Practices, Socially Responsible Investment, Child and Youth Protection, Youth Education and Empowerment ...
Type: Website - Author: Peter Matthies
Type: Website - Author: Peter Matthies