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Skating to the Puck: Lessons on Sustainability from the Hockey Rink
“Some people skate to the puck, I skate to where the puck…
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Water and Land Conservation: Let’s Do What Works
Agreeing that we should use the tools and knowledge we…
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Making Environmental and Sustainable Issues Non-Partisan
Day 2 of the Citizens Summit starts off in a haze, as participants come bright and early to Kroon Hall and its cloudy cover, to…
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Opening Remarks from Day One
What a day of thought provoking discussion! The summit kicked off with a panel entitled “Twenty Years After Rio, Why are We Not There Yet?”…
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Day 1 Highlights from the Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development
Click on the image above to see a slideshow from the…
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Slideshow: Day 1 of the Citizens Summit
[portfolio_slideshow] All images courtesy of Cara Mae Cirignano, Chris Randall, and Austin Lord.
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Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Panel – Making Connections
For the first breakout session of the day, I had the opportunity to attend the “Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture” session, with speakers Mark Bomford,…
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Patterson: “Outrageous” That Farmers’ Lawsuit was Dismissed
Last week’s featured article, Organic on the Offensive, inspired strong reactions from people on both sides of the genetically modified agriculture debate. Among the responses…
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Organic on the Offensive: Nation’s Farmers Sue Big Ag
A group of farmers are waging a class-action lawsuit against giant GM seed company Monsanto. The farmers’ argument? “An invention that poisons people is not…
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Blogging the 2012 U.S./Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development
Follow along in real time as 180 scientists, leaders, advocates and entrepreneurs gather to lay the groundwork for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable…
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine
Jan McAlpine is Director of the United Nations Division on Forests and head of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat in support of…
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Hauling in the Sound
In the wake of continually declining lobster stocks in Connecticut, Tahria Sheather follows one of the state’s few remaining full-time lobstermen, Mike Theiler, out for…
