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In 2005 the United Nations released the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international synthesis by over 1,000 of the world’s leading scientists that analyzed the state of the Earth’s ecosystems and the services they supply to support humanity, along with scenarios and recommendations for the...
In early 2011, Dow Chemical announced a $10 million, five-year partnership with The Nature Conservancy “to advance the incorporation of value of nature into business, and to take action to protect the earth’s natural systems and the services they provide people, for the benefit of business and...
In his new book, Fighting Poverty Together: Rethinking Strategies for Business, Governments, and Civil Society to Reduce Poverty, Aneel Karnani challenges conventional thinking about poverty. A professor of strategy at the University of Michigan with a doctorate from Harvard University, Karnani...
Born and raised in the South Bronx, Majora Carter is best known for leading the effort to create the South Bronx Greenway: eleven miles of bike and pedestrian paths that connect the rivers and neighborhoods to the rest of the city. In 2001, when few people were talking about sustainability in poor...
In March 2008, after a century of absolute monarchy, Bhutan, a small, Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas, held its first democratic elections. Bhutan's transition to a constitutional monarchy (i.e., the king is still the head of state, but the executive and legislative bodies are now democratically...
In July 2010, the United Nations established the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women. UN Women brings together the four former entities working on gender equality and women’s empowerment and will have greater clout to promote these issues. It...
P. Dee Boersma has spent the last 40 years studying penguins. Her research is in the area of conservation biology and has focused on seabirds as indicators of environmental change. A professor of conservation science in the University of Washington’s Department of Biology, Boersma has directed the...
In 2007, after years of lobbying by nongovernmental organizations, Hungary’s parliament created an environmental steward for future generations. Sándor Fülöp, 53, is halfway through his six-year term as the first Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations. Preferring to work without a...
Mindy Lubber (pictured left) is president of Ceres, the leading coalition of investors, environmental organizations, and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to build sustainability into the capital markets and address sustainability challenges such as global climate...
Joe Childers is an environmental lawyer, a founding member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and chairman of the Kentucky Mine Safety Review Commission. In 2009 he was a finalist for director of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, raising expectations that the Obama administration might begin to...
