How can we get more people involved in the next round of Millennium Development Goals? How about letting them participate in their development?
Tag: Education
10 Websites for Going Greener This Summer
Looking to take your environmental efforts to the next level? Check out these 10 green-living websites for going greener than ever this Summer.
Redefining Security for the 21st Century
The situation in which we find ourselves pushes us to redefine security in twenty-first century terms. The time when military forces were the prime threat to security has faded into the past. The threats now are climate volatility, spreading water shortages, continuing population growth, spreading hunger, and failing states. The challenge is to devise new fiscal priorities that match these new security threats.
Egocentricity and Environmentalism: Strange Bedfellows?
Does the documented rise in narcissism spell doom for environmental initiatives? Or, can selfishness and environmentalism coexist?
Demographics Loom Large in State Failure
After a half-century of forming new states from former colonies and from the breakup of the Soviet Union, the international community is today faced with the opposite situation: the disintegration [ … ]
The Lowdown: Earning a Sustainable Business Degree
Wondering if going back to school for a sustainable business degree is worth the effort? Take a look at these facts and figures…
Not just Creating Little Treehuggers: Environmental Education as a Learning System
What’s going on in Washington these days? Duh, debt ceiling negotiations, right? Fortunately, that’s not all… there is still legislation in the works that addresses other issues beyond government spending. [ … ]
Education Leads to Lower Fertility and Increased Prosperity
By Brigid Fitzgerald Reading As the world continues to add close to 80 million people each year, high population growth is running up against the limits of our finite planet, [ … ]
The Green Movement Just Graduated Its First Class… So What’s Next?
In April four years ago, Business Week published a story called “The Greening of America’s Campuses” in which the writer noted “College students across the country are fired up about global [ … ]
Oakland’s Planting Justice: Transforming Urban Life through Permaculture
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkzpTP0GDkY[/youtube] Planting Justice is a nonprofit based in Oakland, CA that offers a unique model for urban transformation. It brings together designing and implementing Permaculture projects with door-to-door community organizing [ … ]
Environmental Engineering Internships Available at Dancing Rabbit
My friends up at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (where — disclaimer — I’m now a board member) have a knack for creating educational opportunities based on their own efforts to [ … ]
Student to Travel the World Studying Commercial Solar Power
A student with a passion for seeing solar energy developed globally, Arizona State University’s Steven Limpert now has the funds to continue his studies in a big way. The third-year [ … ]
Top Ranking Student Speaks Out Against Institutional Education in Graduation Speech
…I want to make sure that no other child will have his or her potential suppressed by powers meant to exploit and control. We are human beings. We are thinkers, [ … ]