Back in July I had my first project working for the Global Ecovillage Network: The Ecovillages and Sustainable Living Conference 2011 – Strategies for Resillience took place in Tamera, Portugal, where I could not only get to know many representatives from worldwide ecovillages but also witness the spirit of this movement. It was an atmosphere [...]

Since Februry 2010, The Blue Economy – Report to the Club of Rome 100 innovations – presents every week a sustainable business model. The case #50 has just been released: ‘Manufacturing without Molds‘ Have you ever realized how many objects of everyday use, made of plastics or metal, have been manufactured in molds? One single [...]

Corporate Careers guide now open to all There are 23 personal stories in Net Impact’s latest career resource: 23 different career paths, 23 different job titles, 23 different profiles of professionals who successfully bring corporate citizenship to their companies on a regular basis. And now all of them are available for you to download, regardless [...]

Schools for Sustainable Development (SSD) program has been implemented in Poland since 2001. Starting in 2007, SSD has become part of the international Eco-Schools Program, which is administered by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) – www.fee-international.org. The Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation represents FEE in Poland. The program is directed at schools and local communities [...]

Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The END of SUBURBIA explored the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of Peak Oil. In ESCAPE From SUBURBIA director Greg Greene once again takes us “through the looking glass” [...]

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals: free [...]

The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre André Senizergues, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures. With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and [...]

The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), for which UNESCO is the lead agency, seeks to integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning, in order to address the social, economic, cultural and environmental problems we face in the 21st century. The Purpose of [...]

FIVE ACTIONS TO BETTER MEASURE PROGRESS IN A CHANGING WORLD
1. Complementing GDP with environmental and social indicators
2. Near real-time information for decision-making
3. More accurate reporting on distribution and inequalities
4. Developing a European Sustainable Development Scoreboard
5. Extending National Accounts to environmental and social issues

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Prosperity Without Growth? says that the current global recession should be the occasion to forge a new economic system equipped to avoid the shocks and negative impacts associated with our reliance on growth. Ahead of the G20 Summit in London, the report calls on leaders to adopt a 12-step plan to make the transition to [...]