SPEAK UP – Sustainability & Peace Encouragement Award for Kids to Unite People
Worldpeacefull is establishing a Sustainability & Peace Encouragement Award for Kids to Unite People (SPEAK UP). This is an Award that will be set up around the world to encourage young people between 10 and 18 to develop projects in peace and sustainability. It is a great way to focus young people on… Continue reading
Indonesian Palm Oil: Pledge? Gold Bar? the Planet? or Awakening?
I’ve been watching a series of films called Living Dangerously. I am listening to Harrison Ford (the US actor) taking on the Forestry Minister and the President of Indonesia. He is outraged at the destruction of the forests. The palm oil industry permeates most consumerables in supermarkets, it is in great demand around the… Continue reading
Peace and Economic Growth
http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/peace-and-economic-growth
Peace and Economic Growth
The challenges facing Mozambique in terms of sustainable human development are enormous, but the opportunities, chances and the need for rapid human development are still greater. That is why the central theme chosen for this first National Human Development Report in Mozambique is pertinent and just: peace… Continue reading
Environmental Sustainability and Peace in a Changing World
Environmental Sustainability and Peace in a Changing World
http://www.usip.org/events/environmental-sustainability-and-peace-in-changing-climate
This event discusses the impact of Climate Change on conflict and sustainable development.
Volatile rainfall and temperature trends in many parts of the world have exerted significant pressure on available land, water and food resources leading to diminishing food stocks, inadequate water supply, mass migration… Continue reading
Is Oiling the Wheels of Politics a Greenwash?
I was thinking tonight about Greenpeace and how foreign funding has been banned, bank accounts frozen. The story was questioning about the rights of indigenous peoples and mining interests deforesting. I started thinking why is the government of India doing this. Then suddenly interests popped into my mind and… Continue reading
How to Solve the Climate Crisis
We live in a world that has spent hundreds of years in varying states of fear and control. We have invented system of economics to originally distribute goods and services efficiently, however humans experienced the greed of wanting more and the sense of status that arose with more things. It is linked… Continue reading