The charities and nonprofit sector in Canada is a broad, rich and encompassing network of 161,000 organizations, 2 million paid employees and nearly 12 million volunteers. Their cont...

There is a growing interest and need for enhancing economic and policy research in agroforestry. So far, no single reference book provides adequate coverage of applied economic and policy analysis ...

Source: 1998. World Resources 1998-99: Environmental change and human health. A joint publication by the , the United Nationas Envi...

Abstract Edward Barbier and Geoffrey Heal explain an emerging field aimed at valuing ecosystems, whose purpose is to help policy makers decide things like how best to get New York clean water ...

Healthy forest ecosystems are ecological life-support systems. Forests provide a full suite of goods and services that are vital to human health and livelihood – natural assets we call ecosystem ...

Overview Ecosystems provide a wide variety of marketable goods, fish and lumber being two familiar examples. However, society is increasingly recognizing the myriad functions—the observable mani...

Experts from around the world examine an innovative proposal to promote both cultural survival and biological conservation: treating cultural and indigenous knowledge as a form of intellectual prop...

Apr 01, 2008 Comedy Central - Colbert Report Van Jones tells Stephen Colbert about green collar jobs that are good for the Earth as well as the ...

Streaming video from Van jones recent keynote address at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly.  Excellent quality video, and as usual, a very powerful address by Van Jones.

Around the world, languages, cultures and ecosystems are disappearing at an alarming rate, erasing richness vital to our survival. Based on interviews conducted at a major international conference ...