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- Making K* work for your research findings
- Sustainable Brands 12 Record Breaking Attendance
- Supporting humanitarian innovations
- Efficiency Finance: A new perspective
- Spring of Sustainability (Video)
- Corporate Sustainability Strategies in Asia Part2 (Video)
- Corporate Sustainability Strategies in Asia Part1 (Video)
- US Military may Stop Buying Biofuels
- Duties on Chinese Solar Higher than Expected
- South Korea Passes Cap-and-Trade Legislation
- Waste-to-Energy: One Solution for Health and Electrification in Haiti?
- Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific
- EPA’s Top Green Powered Organizations (Q1 2012)
- Study: Selective Logging Could Help Mitigate Ecological Impact
- MIT Survey Shows More Businesses are Embracing Sustainability and Turning a Profit
- Climate Change Conferences in Lead-up to Rio+20
- Objection Handling: A Professional’s Guide to Overcoming Objections to Sustainability Adoption and Implementation
- Social Giving Continues to Grow, Digital Giving Index Update
- Canadian Conservatives Silence Opposition to the Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline
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Growing a Climate Resilient Food System
By 2050, an estimated 9 billion people will populate the planet—2 billion more people than today. Feeding this ever-growing population will be increasingly difficult as governments delay action to address food insecurity. Food security will be further destabilized by the effects of climate change, which will damage crops and arable land through highly variable and extreme weather events, such as flooding and drought.
Making K* work for your research findings
UNU Media Centre head Brendan Barrett shares insights derived from a UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health conference that focused on K* (K-Star) — a spectrum of ideas that covers research communication, science push, knowledge translation, adaptation, transfer and exchange, knowledge brokering and mobilization, and policy pull.
Tagged Environment, Policy, Research, Science
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Supporting humanitarian innovations
A sturdy wheelchair specially designed for emergency situations; a network of local radio stations providing real-time mapping of developing crises; a compendium of ideas for getting better accountability in remotely managed programmes – they are all original ideas and all have been funded from a special pot of money created to foster new thinking in humanitarian practice.
Tagged Aid Policy, Health, Humanitarian, Nutrition
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Spring of Sustainability (Video)
Spring of Sustainability is a three-month event series that allows callers to interact directly with world-class visionaries by phone or webcast, at no charge. The 100 speakers include a who’s who of world leaders in the field of sustainability, amongst them are former member of the Obama Administration Van Jones and 350.org founder Bill McKibben.
Tagged Leadership, Society, Sustainability
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Waste-to-Energy: One Solution for Health and Electrification in Haiti?
Following the devastating 2010 earthquake, much of Haiti’s infrastructure, including its already limited ability to manage its municipal solid waste (MSW), was damaged or destroyed. Due largely to lack of public waste management services and sewage treatment centers, thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands more have suffered through outbreaks of cholera.
Tagged Energy, Haiti, Health, Society
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Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific
The Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific is offered to member States to help policymakers. The report from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) balances ecology and economic growth.
Tagged Carbon, Society, Sustainability
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Social Giving Continues to Grow, Digital Giving Index Update
As the prevalence of social networking expands, peer-to-peer charitable giving continues growing at a steady pace. Network for Good finds a 20% increase in giving via social networks in Q1 2012 versus Q1 2011. In fact, giving has increased across all channels—charity websites, social networks, and portal sites—up 16% from the previous year.
Tagged Giving, Nonprofit, Philanthropy
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HEALTH: Treat the mother – save the baby
The past decade has seen great advances in child survival, but while toddlers and small children are benefiting, the death rate for new-born babies remains stubbornly high. Now a new report suggests that paying more attention to their mothers’ health, and focusing on certain damaging but treatable diseases, could be one key to tackling neonatal mortality.
Tagged Children, Gender Issues, Health, Nutrition
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