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Opening Remarks from Day One

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?”

 

According to Daniel Esty, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environment, we …

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Day 1 Highlights from the Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development

Day 1 Highlights from the Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the image above to see a slideshow from the first day of the Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development.

Day 1 of the Summit brought …

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Slideshow: Day 1 of the Citizens Summit

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, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Amy Kalafa, Independent Filmmaker and Author …

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Blogging the 2012 U.S./Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development

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 Development in Rio de Janeiro.
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That was Then. This is Now.

That was Then. This is Now.

The newly opened Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh is the first museum that seeks to catalog man-made biological organisms. The man behind the museum is not a scientist, but an artist, one member of a growing DIY community that is exploring–and making–a new meaning of life as we know it.
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