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Created: Feb 22, 2008

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Updated: 4 days ago
The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis - Lynn White, Jr.
The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis Lynn Townsend White, Jr. A conversation with Aldous Huxley not infrequently put one at the receiving end of an unforgettable monologue. About a year befo...
Country: .Global
Areas: Biodiversity Conservation, Natural Capitalism, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues, Appropriate Technology, Environmental Law and Policy, Agricultural Policy, Ecopsychology ...
Type: Other - Author: Lynn White, Jr.
Updated: 2 months ago
The End of Poverty
"Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time." Thus forecasts Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose twenty-five years of experience observing the world from many vantage poin...
Areas: Squatter Communities, Living Wages, Poverty Alleviation, Fiscal Policies, Institutions and Taxation, Economic Development
Type: Book - Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs
Updated: 2 months ago
Muhammad Yunus
  Muhammad Yunus was born in 28th June, 1940 in the village of Bathua, in Hathazari, Chittagong, the business centre of what was then Eastern Bengal. He was the third of 14 children of whom five ...
Website - Country: Bangladesh
Areas: Poverty Alleviation, Microfinance, Microcredit, Social Entrepreneurship
Type: Other - Author: Muhammad Yunus
Updated: 3 months ago
From credit crunch to planet crunch - or revival?
Paper and slides for the Middle East Waste Summit, May 26th-28th 2009.  How to quickly take care of waste, toxics, pollution, loss of resources, loss of nature, climate change AND run a vigorous ec...
Website - Country: .Global
Areas: Ecological Economics, Environmental Accounting, Fiscal Policies, Institutions and Taxation, Natural Capitalism, Education, Government and Sustainability, Public and Government Education, Sustainability Education, Sustainable Energy Development ...
Type: Presentation - Author: James Greyson
Updated: 4 months ago
Youth Negotiating Conflict and Life: A Photo Essay in Israel-Palestine
Midways between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in Israel-Palestine, around the hilly Latrun area, one can find the only Jewish-Arab village within the state of Israel. The place is called Neve Shalom/Wahat...
Website - Country: Palestinian Territory - Occupied
Areas: Conflict Resolution, Youth Education and Empowerment, Children in Armed Conflict, Culture and Sustainability
Type: Other - Author: Anders Høg Hansen
Updated: 5 months ago
Iraq: The World's Fastest Growing Refugee Crisis
Since November 2006, Refugees International has led the call for increased assistance to Iraqi refugees and displaced people. The displacement of Iraqis from Iraq is now the fastest-growing refugee...
Website - Country: .Global
Areas: Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, and Migrants, Women's Safety from Violence, Militarism and Violence
Type: Other
Updated: 5 months ago
Organic agriculture and the global food supply
The principal objections to the proposition that organic agriculture can contribute significantly to the global food supply are low yields and insufficient quantities of organically acceptable fert...
Website - Country: .Global
Areas: Agricultural Policy, Sustainable Agriculture, Food Literacy, Food Supply, Global Food Supply and Sustainability, Hunger and Food Security, Local Food Systems, Food Aid
Type: Other - Author: Cambridge University Press
Updated: 6 months ago
Global Education Project
"EARTH: A Graphic Look at the State of the World" summarizes the conditions of the world's natural ecology and human cultures, their interactions and impact on each other (http://www.theglobaledu...
Website - Country: .Global
Areas: Aquaculture, Ozone Layer, Petroleum in the Environment, Human Population Growth and Impacts, Coastal Ecology, Endangered Animal Species Protection, Climate Change, HIV/AIDS, Publishing, Cultural Diversity ...
Type: Other - Author: R. McKenty
Updated: 6 months ago
The party's Over
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative e...
Areas: Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Renewable Energy, Alternative Fuels, Energy Policy, Energy Security and Sustainability, Sustainable Energy Development
Type: Book - Author: Richard Heinberg
Updated: 7 months ago
"Murals for Peace" Project
“Murals for Peace” Project The basic idea of the project is to give a message of hope in a place that it seems there is no more hope. We want to make several murals regarding Peace and Human rights...
Country: Chile
Areas: Arts Activism, Peace and Peace Building, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Conflict Resolution, Human Rights Protection, Human Rights Education, Social Justice Education, Militarism and Violence
Type: Website - Author: Claudio Mandler
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