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Sustainable NYE City #4: Melbourne, Australia
If you need to stay focused this New Year, Melbourne, Australia is the right place to be to write those edgy resolutions. Why? Because Melbourne has been making some pretty eco-impressive resolutions of its own lately. Their fresh, innovative Melbourne Plan outlines their aim to be one of the most livable cities in the [...]
Australia Supports Microfinance via Aid to the Carribean
Australia will make AUS$60 million (US$55.5 million) available over four years to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for cooperation in a wide range of areas of special mutual interest. These include climate change, disaster risk reduction and emergency management; regional integration including trade facilitation; education, including in the fields of science and technology, provision of [...]
Sustainability Setbacks: What Can We Do?
Our primary focus here at Social Earth is to deliver you good news about people and organizations who are dedicated to improving our world, but it would be unrealistic if every once and awhile we did not share our frustrations. For me and everyone else with an environmental conscience, this week was a particularly [...]
The Clinton Global Initiative and Investing in Changemakers
The plight of women and girls in the developing world is a book of sobering stories with very few happy endings. Year after year, we are reminded of some of the most jarring injustices of our time, most of which go unrecognized, let alone unpunished. And yet, hope for action is on the horizon. [...]
November 3, 2009 | Posted in Featured | Read More »
Maldives Goes Deep for 350
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I’m going to try to write this post in 350 words exactly as my own contribution to the International Day of Climate Action, approaching on October 24th. I’m giving you a 3-day heads up so that you can figure out your own action to save our planet.
Why now? Because NASA climatologist James Hansen and [...]
Better World: Agenda & Interactive Sessions Announced
Leadership for a Better World: Creating Social Value through Innovation, held in Washington, D.C. has just announced the schedule for the September 25th forum.
The event is organized around the idea of bringing together a cross-sector audience (business, nonprofit, policy and academia) for a series of discussions on how to create, lead and sustain organizations [...]
The Age of Stupid Premiere
Today, we should all be having a 90-minute conversation with British actor, Pete Postlethwaite. In the eco-documentary “The Age of Stupid” – premiering today, September 21st, in the US and tomorrow worldwide, Postlethwaite takes on the role of an aging archivist looking back on the error of our ways from the year 2055. He [...]
Can Fruit Trees Save the Planet? The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation says YES!
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation FTPF is a non-profit organization that plans to plant 18 billion fruit trees around the world. By planting three trees for each person alive, FTPF intends to reverse the effects of climate change – feed hungry people – connect communities – and undo the environmental damage caused by generations [...]
Home, The Documentary: Our Earth, Our Impact and How We Can Change
I just finished watching Home, a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Thanks to the film’s supporters it is available for free on YouTube in English, Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish, plus many more languages.
After finishing the movie I felt it was a must-watch. Not only is the aerial footage beautiful and dramatic, but the message [...]
Corporate Leaders Join Prince Charles on World Environment Day to combat Climate Change
The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) is getting a jump on the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) this December. Prince Charles has enlisted the help of some big names from the corporate world on June 5th, to coincide with World Environment Day to raise awareness about the ongoing deforestation occurring in the world’s rainforests and [...]
350.org is Making Global Warming Take a 180
The number 350 is the limit that scientists have determined is a safe level of Carbon Dioxide, (CO2), to be in our atmosphere. Measured in parts per million, (ppm), we are above that now at 389 ppm, and rising. 350.org is making that number its mission. By raising awareness about levels of dangerous greenhouse [...]
