Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
Over the past 540 million years, life on Earth has passed through five great mass extinctions. In each of those catastrophes, an estimated 75 percent or more of all species disappeared in a few...
View ArticleFrom Staff Benda Bilili to Congo’s minerals
I used the last friday evening to see a new film in Stockholm . Suddenly you are there. Meeting the sunlight of Kinshasa Zoo in Congo when the Staff Benda Bililis musical rhythm sounds get strong. My...
View ArticleDurban a new disappoitment in the Climate negotiations?
Will the developing countries see any further steps on climate justice or will the negotiators struggle away from a possible deal? US climate negotiator Todd Stern and European climate commissioner...
View ArticleFish stock declining figures under debate
33 percent of all stocks are over-exploited and up to 13 percent of all stocks have collapsed says in a new study from Two University of Washington scientists have just published a study in the...
View ArticleFrom Stockholm on the Road to Rio de Janeiro 2012
Click here to view the embedded video. An interview with Dr Ashok Khosla, President of IUCN, one of the speakers at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability development in Stockholm...
View ArticleFriends of Graemeen
Yunus, known as “the banker of the poor”, has become unstoppable, with 3.7 million people now having signed a petition; Mary Robinson leading Friends of Grameen with a powerful international coalition...
View ArticleSweden on the top of the list of biofuel use in Europe
Since 1st January 2011, the German law on biofuel sustainability puts the focus on distributors to demonstrate that the types of biofuel used in petrol and diesel blends comply with the European...
View ArticleSolutions for Rio – debate in the UK Parliament
More than 150 politicians, businesses and NGO:s participated in the discussion about the roadmap to Rio +20 and Stockholm+40. The threats of our civilisation was present in the discussion. Mark...
View ArticleFair Tax: It’s About Socioeconomic Welfare, not Warfare!
Some week ago week Paul Ryan, chairman of the House of Representatives budget committee, accused President Obama of waging “class warfare” with his proposed taxes on top-earners. Ryan went on to claim...
View ArticleRevolution, Recession AND Sustainability
Revolution and recession. For good reason, these two words have dominated headlines over the past year. Yet talk of such political and financial tumult has resulted in the neglect of a third issue,...
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