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John Birch Society Is Back: Municipal Planning & Environmentalism Targeted
John Birch Society-style paranoia has the T-partiers fired up against planning, environmental protection, and climate change adaptation.
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Countries To Be Asked To Sign 10 Sustainable Development Goals At Rio+20 Summit
It's just about six months until the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development takes place in Brazil and details are emerging (well, being leaked) about what nations will be asked to sign...
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Leaked Rio+20 Document Has Lots For Treehuggers To Like, With One Glaring...
My overall impression remains that while it certainly hits all the right points in terms of what the issues are, the central failing will be that all of it is based upon voluntary national actions.
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U.N.'s New Sustainability Plan: Double Renewable Power Worldwide, Give Energy...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announces the official launch of the ambitious sustainability initiative.
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Experts and Executives Agree: The Profit Motive Hinders Sustainability
A survey of academics and business insiders agrees, the short-term push for corporate profits is one of our biggest barriers to environmental sustainability.
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By 2050 We're All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not
The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.
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Agenda 21 Plot Exposed in the New York Times and Grist
The newspaper of record picks up on the issue that we have been covering for some time. Grist finds it all very funny; It's not.
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Lenny Kravitz Wants You to Buy Tap Water For a Cause
The rocker/actor has signed up for UNICEF's Tap Project, encouraging the purchase of restaurant tap water to provide clean water to children around the world.
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Global Water Supplies Threatened by Climate Change, Increased Demand
A report from the United Nations stresses that increased demand for fresh water, coupled with the effects of climate change, is threatening the world's water supplies.
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Gus Speth Envisions America the Possible (Podcast)
James Gustave Speth, founder of the World Resources Institute, discusses his new book and the political reform America so dearly needs.
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Four Arrested at Occupy Wall Street's 'Disrupt Dirty Power' Protest
Last Tuesday, #Occupy protests took to the U.N. to protest the influence of the financial sector on polluting power.
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There's More to Happiness Than GDP & There's a New Report to Prove It
With two months to go until the Rio+20 environmental conference, the UN is making a push towards moving away from using GDP as the end-all-be-all measurement of progress.
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Vote Now for the UNEP & TreeHugger Blogging Competition
Let the blogging begin! Help determine the winner of the Rio+20 Blogging Competition.
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How Happy Is Bhutan, Really? Gross National Happiness Unpacked
Gross National Happiness has lots of cache in the environmental and social justice community, but how is Bhutan actually calculating it and how well are they doing?
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As Rio+20 Approaches, Pleas For Less Language Squabbling & More Respecting...
Check out these two important pieces from Kelly Rigg and David Korten on where the Rio+20 negotiations are and aren't heading.
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What Rio+20 Is All About in Just Over a Minute (Video)
In case you're not up to speed on what's going on at the Rio+20 environmental conference, UNDP has produced this quick video that will explain both what sustainable development is and why we so...
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Just 4 of 90 Most-Important Environmental Goals Show Significant Progress: UNEP
UNEP's latest Global Environment Outlook goes on to say that we're making little to no progress on 24 goals, with 8 getting worse, including some of the most serious such as climate change and coral...
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President Obama Won't Be Attending Rio+20 Sustainability Summit
Instead Secretary of State Clinton and EPA head Lisa Jackson will be going. This makes the third UN environmental conference the President has failed to attend.
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Rio +20: Who is Really Responsible for Responsibility
TerraCycle looks at why all companies should begin a sustainability initiative.
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Should Billionaires Be Forced to Pay a 1% Tax for International Development?
A new UN report says that a 1% tax levies on the world's 1,225 billionaires would more than make up for the shortfall in development aid from governments.
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Agenda 21 Update: Prospective Senator Cruz From Texas is An Agender
Is this conspiracy theory a sideshow, or does it have legs?
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Republican Platform Comes Out Against Agenda 21, Law of the Sea, Women's...
In fact if the UN proposes anything, they are against it.
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Wildlife Crime Called a Threat to Global Rule of Law in UN Talks
For the first time the UN General Assembly has taken up the global illegal wildlife trade as an issue of rule of law, alongside drug trafficking and similar issues.
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Should the Former OPEC President Really Head a UN Climate Summit?
Compared to having Denmark's climate and energy minister head COP15, having the Deputy Prime Minister of Qatar at the helm seems a cruel joke.
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3,000 great apes killed or captured every year, reports UN
In terms of biology, humans and the planet's other great apes share a common branch in the tree of life. But sadly, despite their near-humanity, our primate cousins continue to die out at the hands of...
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Leaked UN climate report warns of dangerous global warming. Will the world...
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was expected to delivery its fifth Assessment Report (AR5) next month, but over the past weekend, a draft of that report was leaked...
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Humans are warming atmosphere and climate change is irreversible unless we...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its fifth assessment report (AR5), which surely must be one of the most important science documents of all time.
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Finally! U.N. to create asteroid defense group to prevent death from above
What's the point of protecting the environment if bad luck brings a big space rock on a trajectory that crosses Earth's path?
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Fossil fuels may ruin your retirement
Ever heard of a 'stranded asset'? They are well known in the world of sustainability, and they can put a dent in your retirement savings.
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Here’s how much UN scientists think we should cut our meat and dairy consumption
A new report examines the environmental and health impacts of consuming animals products.
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