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Population and the environment: the global challenge

As the century begins, natural resources are under increasing pressure, threatening public health and development. Water shortages, soil exhaustion, loss of forests, air and water pollution, and degradation of coastlines afflict many areas. As the world's population grows, improving living standards without destroying the environment is a global challenge. Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Volume XXVIII, Number 3, Fall 2000.

http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/m15edsum.shtml

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Poverty and Conservation Learning Group Information Portal

The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)'s purposes are to promote good practice through information provision and dissemination, and to influence policy change through provision of a programme of learning activities to organisations actively working on conservation-poverty linkages. Its website is centred on four key, fully searchable, databases: A bibliographic database provides details of the literature on conservation-poverty linkages. An organisations database highlights the range of organisations working on conservation-poverty linkages, including donor agencies, conservation organisations, NGOs, indigenous people's organisations and grassroots groups. An initiatives database describes significant international initiatives designed to explore the links between conservation and poverty reduction, from broad poverty-environment programmes to focused single-issue agendas. A case studies database is capturing practical, on-the-ground experience in linking conservation and poverty reduction and documenting the strategies employed in making these linkages. Additional contributions to the databases are encouraged, and the website also provides links to other sites of interest, members institutional sites, related databases, networks and so on.

http://www.povertyandconservation.info/

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Profits Before Planet: the global failure of environmental regulation

From 'New Renaissance', Volume 11, Number 1. By Chris Holberg, a technical journalist and former industrial researcher with a long-standing interest in environmental and social issues. George W Bush has made himself unpopular by backing out of the Kyoto Protocol. That's headline news. Astronaut Frank Culbertson has commented on the continuing destruction of our planet as seen from space. That's headline news. But some of the news that hasn't made the headlines is far more worrying. Firstly, there is a growing body of evidence that environmental legislation is simply failing to meet any meaningful environmental targets. Second, there is now a reaction against the whole idea of corporate social or environmental responsibility.

http://www.ru.org/profits-planet.htm

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Reciclamos! Is Community Recycling a Sustainable Livelihood in Coastal Mexico?

A few years ago, the town of San Pancho did not have any recycling whatsoever; bottles and cans went with the rest of the trash to the dump. Now, however, they are processing hundreds of bottles per week in the community, and raising environmental awareness at the same time (Mneesha Gellman and Josh Dankoff, Upside Down World) 19 March 2008).

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1183/1/

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Reducing the Risk of Disasters - Helping to Achieve Sustainable Poverty Reduction in a Vulnerable World [pdf]

The links between disaster and poverty are clear. It is the poorest who are worst affected and suffer most.The capacity to cope and to reduce risk is much more limited in poorer countries. Disasters damage infrastructure and affect productivity and growth. Rarely do disasters just happen - they often result from failures of development which increase vulnerability. This paper summarises DFID's policy on disaster risk reduction as it applies to natural and technological disasters; it shows examples of disaster impacts on efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); as well as examples of good practice in disaster risk reduction. (Department For International Development, March 2006)

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/disaster-risk-reduction-policy.pdf

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Resource Conservation Alliance (RCA)

The mission of the Resource Conservation Alliance (RCA) is to protect natural forests and other ecological systems through market- and commodity-based conservation strategies. These strategies include reduced consumption and increased recycling, redesign and resource diversification. RCA encourages consumers to conserve forests by reducing their consumption of paper and building products overall and by replacing virgin wood products with products made from recycled fibers, straw, kenaf, hemp, etc.

http://www.rca-info.org/

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Review of Environmental Issues in the Pacific Region

Paper presented at the Workshop and symposium on the Collaboration for sustainable development of the Pacific Islands: Towards effective e-learning systems on environment. (Stuart Chape, 15 February 2007).

http://www.sprep.org/att/publication/000542_ChapeReview.pdf

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Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is one of the world most notorious mining companies, responsible for anti-union actions and environmental destruction, such as the mine tailings spillage at the Porco Zinc mine in Bolivia and the mining of a natural park at the St Lucia Wetland Park in South Africa. "Rio Tinto is a world leader in finding, mining and processing the earth's mineral resources. The Group's worldwide operations supply essential minerals and metals that help to meet global needs and contribute to improvements in living standards. Rio Tinto encourages strong local identities and has a devolved management philosophy, entrusting responsibility with accountability to the workplace." - From the website.

http://www.riotinto.com/

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Road to ruin

America produces a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, the population has risen by 100 million since 1970 and when an area three times the size of Britain was recently opened up for mining, drilling, logging and road building, no one took much notice. What does the Bush administration do? It ignores all attempts to curb environmental damage. In a major investigation that took him from the Salton Sea in California to Crooked Creek in Florida, Matthew Engel reports on how America is ravaging the planet.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1069831,00.html

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Salvation Through Consumption?

Scoop, Monday, 19 May 2003, 8:02 am Column: Aziz Choudry. Silly me! Here I was thinking that now, more than ever, we need to organise, mobilise, take to the streets, and voice our dissent - collectively. Then I went to a couple of supermarkets in the USA, and was left speechless by the sheer number of product lines which promote the idea that concerned shoppers - as individuals - can save the world by consuming more of them.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00124.htm

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Scorned Trash Pickers Become Global Environmental Force

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - As the world scrambles to save dwindling resources and halt global warming, a long-scorned population is becoming the latest hope in the environmental battle.(Jack Chang, McClatchy Newspapers, 25 March 2008)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/25/7879/

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TAKE ACTION: Tell Panasonic, Sharp and Philips to take responsibility for their toxic TVs

Please tell the CEOs of major electronics firms to take responsibility for the TVs they make, and the waste that goes with them. While some companies, like Sony, are doing the right thing by implementing responsible recycling programs for their old TVs, most companies are ignoring the problem.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/676/t/572/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23056

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The Borneo Project

The indigenous tribes of Borneo have lived in harmony with their rainforests for thousands of years, but now both the people and the forests are in danger. We work with a growing network of communities and non-profits assisting with craft sales, microhydro electrification, reforestation, mapping, eco-friendly income generation and the like. Please join us in helping the outstanding efforts of Borneans helping themselves!

http://www.earthisland.org/borneo/

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The Death of Environemntalism:Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World

The authors of this essay believe that the environmental movement's foundational concepts, its method for framing legislative proposals, and its very institutions are outmoded. Theys say that today environmentalism is just another special interest. According to the authors, evidence for this can be found in its concepts, its proposals, and its reasoning. What stands out is how arbitrary environmental leaders are about what gets counted and what doesn't as "environmental." Most of the movement's leading thinkers, funders and advocates do not question their most basic assumptions about who we are, what we stand for, and what it is that we should be doing. (Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004)

http://www.thebreakthrough.org/images/Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf

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The EnviroLink Network - E-mail Lists

EnviroWeb allows non-profit organizations to utilize our automated mailing list system - no charge.

http://support.enviroweb.org/cobalt/mailinglist.html

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The International Corporate Environmental Reporting Site

The site offers a section with international news, a full Web directory with links to all information related to CER that can be found on the Web and a Gallery of Awards with an overview of all Awards Schemes for CER's all over the world.

http://www.enviroreporting.com/

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The Population Environment Research Network (PERN)

PERN's mission is to facilitate scientific analysis and dialogue about population environment relationships. It is an Internet-based network that is open and free to all who are interested in population environment research. PERN's activities include the collection and annotation of relevant web-links, recent publications, and syllabi in an online database, hosting cyberseminars, and the provision of information on meetings, grant and job opportunities and member research.

http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/

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The soul of environmentalism: rediscovering transformational politics in the 21st Century

Challenging the notion that the environmental movement has died: This paper is written by nine economic, environmental, and social policy leaders in response to a previous paper entitled the "Death of Environmentalism". It discusses the ideas and actions needed for winning progressive environmental alliances by re-examining modern political strategy. (Eldis, April 2007)

http://www.redefiningprogress.org/soul/soul.pdf

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Wal-Mart's Sustainability Initiative: A Civil Society Critique

Nearly two years ago, Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott announced a bold initiative to turn the world's largest company green. In advance of the company's progress report, 23 environmental, farm, labor, and other civil society groups have offered their own critiques of Wal-Mart's approach to sustainability. (Global Economy, 6 September 2007)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/CounterSustainability.pdf

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Whose harvest the politics of organic seed certification

This Briefing provides the first global overview of regulations concerning seeds in organic farming and assesses what such regulations mean to the future of organic farming and the farmers who sustain it(GRAIN, January 2008).

http://www.grain.org/briefings_files/organic-seeds-2007-en.pdf

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