The small nation of Bhutan, nestled in the Himalayas between China and India, is committed to becoming the first “hundred percent organic” nation. At the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June, Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley announced that his government is developing a National Organic Policy and a plan to convert 100% …
Gandhi said it best when he said, “the Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not enough to satisfy every man’s greed.” This is truer of the world’s freshwater supply now than ever before. There is no shortage of water for the needs of people and the planet, …
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil–While the highly controversial “Sustainable Energy for All” initiative [1] is underway today at Energy Day at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the international STOP GE Trees Campaign [2] is demanding a global ban on the release of destructive and dangerous genetically engineered trees (also called …
Transforming Business and Finance: Earth Day program, including a talk with Hazel Henderson, author of Ethical Markets, about GDP vs. Quality-of-Life indices, how money gets created, her Green Transitions Scoreboard, the Green Economy Network, and TransformingFinance.net; also a brief orientation by CS about ATN’s focus on the Relational Shift. EthicalMarkets.com; poem by Kay …
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