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InterNetwork for Sustainability

INSnet - InterNetwork for Sustainability - is a nonprofit informal network to support sustainable development. Our main goal is to create awareness for the comprehensive character of sustainable development by giving easy access to relevant information. We try to achieve this by creating an entry to news, opinions and information and by offering an international platform for publishing opinions and information.

http://www.insnet.org/

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Investing in Farmers as Researchers: Experience with Local Agricultural Research Committees in Latin America

This book, available free online, examines the Local Agricultural Research Committee experience in parts of Latin America. Local agricultural research committees aim, with the help of trained outsiders, to encourage farmers to conduct their own agricultural research and to involve their community. The book argues that this participatory approach is effective insofar as the CIAL provides results meaningful to the host community.

http://isa.ciat.cgiar.org/catalogo/producto.jsp?codigo=P318

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Keeping score: in search of an accurate Environmental Sustainability Index

By Simon Bullock. 2001. The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is misleading in the extreme, and represents some of the worst eco-villains as the world's good guys; to the benefit of the powerful nations. This implies not only that modern industrialised nations are getting it right on the environment, but also that to be 'environmentally sustainable', poorer countries need to go down the same development path as richer countries. In fact, achieving genuine sustainability will require far more changes from richer countries. The Ecologist and Friends of the Earth, in an attempt to rectify this, have reformed and recalculated the methodology by which the ESI was produced. The results - as the maps and tables accompanying this article demonstrate - tell a very different story.

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=1213

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Learning For Sustainability

The Learning For Sustainability website is a resource for government, natural resource management and development agency staff, NGOs and other community leaders working to support multi-stakeholder learning processes to guide sustainable development activities. This guide to on-line resources highlights a number of topic areas that are relevant to social learning.

http://learningforsustainability.net/

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Lessons Learned on Trade and Sustainable Development

Available in PDF (2458.4 kb). This book distills the lessons from six years of research undertaken by and for the Trade Knowledge Network (1998 - 2004). It draws on in-country research, thematic research and workshop papers to identify the key issues, and explores in depth what the TKN research has to say about them. The result is an excellent primer on the issues faced by the South in the area of trade and sustainable development. The book includes a companion CD covering all of the surveyed TKN research (more than 40 papers in all, including several in Spanish).

http://www.tradeknowledgenetwork.net/publication.aspx?id=631

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Linking the dots: MDGs and the 2010 Global Biodiversity Challenge

Beginning with the 1972 Stockholm Summit on Sustainable Development, the links between economic, social and environmental aspects to achieving sustainable development have received increasing attention. Currently, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), form the basis of all debates and discussions on development around the world. This paper will not attempt to exhaust all resources and literature available on the MDGs and the 2010 target, but to engage readers in a broad discussion on the validity of the indicators, the need for cross-cutting references and analysis, and the need for reviewing and/or generating newer indicators. (Agorra Foundation, 2006)

http://www.agorrafoundation.org/res/CBD_MDG_FINAL.pdf

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Living Earth Foundation

Living Earth Foundation is an international, not for profit organisation running programmes in over eleven countries from Brazil to Bulgaria, Uganda to Ukraine. It is at the heart of a growing community of Living Earth organisations around the world that work in a cooperative and supportive way to maximise their impact. Living Earth Foundation is supported by development agencies including the European Union and the British Government, private companies, trusts, foundations and individuals. Living Earth also offers training and consultancy services to a broad range of corporate, academic and institutional clients.

http://www.livingearth.org.uk/

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Major Progress in Summit Talks on Finance and Trade

Johannesburg, 28 August- Major progress has been made in the negotiations on the major outcome document for the World Summit on Sustainable Development on issues relating to trade and finance questions, which include some of the most contentious issues the Summit has faced. But negotiators have agreed on about 99 per cent of the text concerning finance and about 80 per cent of the section on trade, with the agreements drawing heavily on language from the World Trade Organization meeting in Doha, Qatar, last November, and the International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March. Overall, about 88 per cent of the outcome document is complete, and of the 156 paragraphs that were in dispute at the start of the Summit, 76 are still outstanding.

http://www.un.org/jsummit/html/whats_new/feature_story28.htm

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Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Brazil: Lessons learnt in integrating conservation with poverty reduction (pdf)

In May 2002, there was a review of the approach taken in management of the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil. This review yielded many valuable lessons regarding how to begin to reconcile conservation and development objectives with an economically poor and socially marginalized area. It analyses the approach adopted for collaborative management in fisheries and forestry, in creating enabling policy frameworks, and the introduction of alternative economic activities based on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. (Izabella Koziell, Cristina Inoue, IIED, June 2006)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/9168IIED.pdf

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Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods: Uniting Science And Participation

This book, produced by the International Development Research Centre, discusses participatory processes in relation to the management of natural resources. It is available for free online.

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-34000-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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Marches Highlight Breach in Trust

By Farah Khan, 2nd Sept. A teetering World Summit inside the Sandton Convention Centre - the reasons volubly displayed outside where a sea of protestors arrived after a nine km long march. The series of protest marches on Saturday highlighted the issues still cleaving apart the summit as ministers arrived to sign a final deal: how to define globalisation, how to deal with an unjust trade regime, how to deal with debt and what to do about social exclusion. "The landless have landed; water for the thirsty," shouted a leader aboard an open truck as it wound its way to a stop at Speakers Corner, the barricaded spot the UN has set aside for the range of protests that have wound their way to the World Summit venue throughout the week. Sat's first march was the largest, at between 15, 000 and 20, 000 people. It yoked together the nationally and internationally excluded; and the glitterati of the left, including the Canadian author Naomi Klein and Food First's Annuradha Mittal. (TerraViva)

http://www.ipsnews.net/riomas10/0209_12.shtml

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Millennium Development Goals indicator database

The "MDG Dashboard of Sustainability" is a free, non-commercial software which allows to present complex relationships between economic, social and environmental issues in a highly communicative format aimed at decision-makers and citizens interested in Sustainable Development. The database contains 40 MDG indicators for about 200 countries.

http://esl.jrc.it/envind/mdg.htm

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Monitoring Progress Towards a Sustainable New Zealand : An experimental report

Statistics New Zealand. August 2002. Sustainable development is defined in this report as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the capacity of future generations to meet their own needs" (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1997). Indicators that enable us to gain insights into our progress towards sustainable development need to be more than economic, social or environmental performance indicators. They should help us to understand and explain long-term effects and interlinkages. So far we have, at best, only partly met this challenge. The information contained in this report provides some insights into whether we are meeting current needs and how our actions both past and present may be impacting on the stock of resources that will be available for the future.

http://www.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/web/nzstories.nsf/874ea91c142289384c2567a80081308e/03d942f0c4b64f66cc256bb900720057/$FILE/Sus_Dev.pdf

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Natural Resources and Sustainable Development

Natural Resources and Sustainable Development is a public forum for information and communication concerning natural resources and their interface with the economy, the environment and society. Natural resources featured on this website include minerals, oil and gas, biodiversity, energy, and water. The forum is managed by a consortium of partners from the public and private sectors. It seeks to engage the support and interaction of the widest range of institutions and individuals to promote the conservation and careful use of natural resources and further the aims of Sustainable Development as outlined in Agenda 21.

http://www.natural-resources.org

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Negotiations on Johannesburg Summit Action Plan Enters Final Phase

Johannesburg, 2 September" Agreement has been reached on virtually all of the World Summit on Sustainable Development's Plan of Implementation, with the notable exception of several key provisions on energy. Among the provisions that were agreed upon in ministerial negotiating session last night, was a commitment to set a goal for reducing by half the proportion of people who lack access to proper sanitation by 2015, efforts to reduce the loss of biodiversity, on good governance, to promote corporate responsibility, and to reaffirm the Rio Principles, including the precautionary principle and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. The remaining unresolved issues involve energy issues, including setting a target for achieving a certain level of renewable energy use and whether countries should establish programmes to improve access to reliable and affordable energy services.

http://www.un.org/jsummit/html/whats_new/feature_story35.htm

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Nigerian Teens Wow Audience and Warn African Leaders: Interview with Temidayo Israel Abdulai and Bl

allAfrica.com, August 29, 2002. This dynamic duo stole the show on Wednesday in Johannesburg at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The session was entitled "Children: vital partners in globalization and earth preservation". The Nigerian twosome pulled no punches, drawing applause, smiles and cheers from a mixed group of children, teenagers and adults. Along with other young delegates, Dayo and Blessing sent a direct and outspoken message to the one hundred world leaders expected in Johannesburg to endorse any agreement on sustainable development reached by negotiators in the next few days. That message was: Invest in your children. Consider the children in whatever decisions you take. After their presentations, allAfrica.com's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton caught up with the popular teenagers, who were being embraced and congratulated like pop stars.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200208290001.html

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Nobel Prize for Sustainable Development

Support the international initiative for a Nobel Prize for Sustainability More than one million of citizens, and organizations from over one hundred countries support the call for a Nobel Prize on Sustainability. The initiators say: "Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, was a visionary man. In 1895 he wrote in his testament: 'The capital of my estate shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind'. For more than a hundred years the Nobel Prizes are among the most prestigious acknowledgements any scientist, writer or politician can receive. Its time for another visionary step: a Nobel Prize for Sustainable Development. Climate change, global warming, desertification, the lack of clean water and the depletion of our natural resources, call for sustainable leadership. The future of the modern world is depending on it. We, people from many different nations and with different backgrounds, are calling for installing a Prize for Sustainable Development in Memory of Alfred Nobel"

http://www.sustainable-prize.net/index.html

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Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development

"The social dimension of sustainable development" Discussion of the importance of social development - satisfying basic needs as well as empowerment

http://www.foundation.novartis.com/social_development/social_sustainable_development.htm#empowerment

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Organic Farming Flourishes in Cuba

They call it "la esquina verde," or "the green corner." It's in a residential neighborhood of Havana, where Ydelio Yzquierdo and two other men grow lettuce, parsley, basil and a variety of other vegetables on a plot about a city block long and a half-block wide. It's one of several thousand organic gardens - known here as organoponicos - that have sprung up in Cuba in the past 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union led to a severe downturn in Cuban food production. As a result, Cuba's organic food movement has made the country a world leader in low-input sustainable agriculture. Organoponicos range from less than an acre to six acres. It's estimated that Cuba, an island country about the size of Pennsylvania, has more than 81,000 acres of organoponicos. The gardens produce about 250 pounds of food a year for each of Cuba's 11 million people and have generated 300,000 jobs, said Peter Rosset, co-director of Food First and the Institute for Food and Development Policy in Oakland.

http://www.foodfirst.org/archive/media/news/2003/organicincuba.html

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Our common future: the Brundtland Report

This seminal report stated that critical global environmental problems were primarily the result of the enormous poverty of the South and the non-sustainable patterns of consumption and production in the North. It called for a strategy that united development and the environment - described by the now-common term "sustainable development". (World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), 1987)

http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm

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Our Planet

Our Planet is UNEP's magazine for environmentally sustainable development. Each issue of Our Planet concentrates on one specific theme, tying into international conferences (the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention), meetings (the Commission on Sustainable Development), events (World Environment Day), or dealing with issues of our time (Water or Climate Change). Our Planet contains articles by leaders of United Nations organizations, national governments, non-governmental organizations, experts, business leaders and opinion formers. Our Planet reports on international developments and action. It reviews current thinking, suggests solutions, and debates the key issues of environmentally sustainable development.

http://www.ourplanet.com/

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Power to the People: Sustainable energy solutions for the world's poor

The Intermediate Technology Development Group's briefing paper on energy and poverty. Energy cooks the food we eat, it heats our schools, it lights our hospitals, it powers our industries, it is central to all human economic activity. Access to basic, clean energy services is essential for sustainable development and poverty eradication, and provides major benefits in the areas of health, literacy and equity. However, over two billion people today have no access to modern energy services.

http://www.itdg.org/html/advocacy/power_to_the_people_paper.htm

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Power tools: for policy influence in natural resource management

This website introduces a range of Power Tools - "how-to" ideas that marginalised people and their allies can use to have a greater positive influence on natural resources policy. This website presents: 26 power tools based on experience from around the world; Discussion of power tools in theory and practice - See the What is a Power Tool? and the Strengths and Limits of Tools in Practice pages, plus individual tools; Related research on policy tools in action - Look at Related Research pages; A directory of the many other websites that contain policy tool resources - Consult Directory of Tools Links page. From Participatory Learning and Action.

http://www.policy-powertools.org/

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Rapid Environment And Development International Timetable (READIT)

The new 'do-it-yourself' on-line calendar of sustainable development events - READIT allows users to publicise their own events to a world-wide audience, find out about other events in their own country or across the globe, and research past events for scientific conference results, NGO recommendations, government and inter-governmental decisions and partners for new and innovative projects. Users may enter events which relate directly or indirectly to environment and/or development, human rights, peace, etc. Readers can search for information on meetings using 76 subject fields or their own search terms. READIT was originally published in 1990-91 ahead of UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The new READIT is an events data base offered as a free service to the sustainable development movement in the lead up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, 2002. The calendar is not however limited to WSSD related events, and is intended to be used well beyond 2002.

http://www.readit2002.net/

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Redefining Progress

Redefining progress is a non-profit public policy organization that creates policies and tools to encourage accurate market prices, to protect our common social and natural assets, and to foster social and economic sustainability.

http://www.redefiningprogress.org/

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