Culture of Peace Initiative
Peace Practices - Peace Day September 21
The Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) is a UN-designated "Peace Messenger Initiative" with participants in all the world's regions. Its purpose is to unite the strengths of organizations and individuals who are working to make Peace a practical reality. The highlight of the Initiative is International Day of Peace (Peace Day), which is celebrated ...learn more
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Updated: 6 months ago
Van Jones lays the case for creating a Green Job Corps to help transition our fossil fuel economy to a green economy. At the same time, this Green Job Corp connects the "jobs that most need to be d...
Updated: about 1 year ago
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 contribution to com...
Updated: over 2 years ago
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 ...
Updated: over 2 years ago
Source: 1998. World Resources 1998-99: Environmental change and human health. A joint publication by the , the United Nationas Envi...
Areas: Forest Ecology and Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Natural Capitalism, Ecological Economics, Environmental Accounting
Type: Website - Author: World Resources Institute WRI
Type: Website - Author: World Resources Institute WRI
Updated: over 2 years ago
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 ...
Areas: Ecosystem Services, Natural Capitalism, Ecological Economics, Environmental Accounting
Type: Other - Author: Geoffrey M. Heal, Edward B. Barbier
Type: Other - Author: Geoffrey M. Heal, Edward B. Barbier
Updated: about 1 year ago
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 se...
Areas: Sustainable Forestry, Ecosystem Services, Forest Ecology and Conservation, Natural Capitalism, Ecological Economics, Environmental Accounting
Type: Website - Author: USDA Forest Service
Type: Website - Author: USDA Forest Service
Updated: about 1 year ago
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 manife...
Areas: Ecosystem Services, Natural Capitalism
Type: Book - Author: Water Science and Technology Board
Type: Book - Author: Water Science and Technology Board
Updated: over 2 years ago
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...
Type: Book - Author: Doreen Stabinsky, Stephen B. Brush (Editors)
Updated: about 1 year ago
van jones bioneers 2007
Updated: about 1 year ago
Van Jones discusses makes the case for green-collar jobs, and explains the vision of building a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.