The Heschel Center, in partnership with the Karev Educational Initiative, continues to cultivate the Green School Network – a growing web of schools that have embraced sustainability as a central part of their educational vision.
Through the Green Network, over a hundred schools throughout the country, representing the wide gamut of the Israeli student body - Jewish and Arab, secular and religious, rich and poor, urban and rural – create environmental leadership and implement community-bas more...

As competition between food and fuel threatens to become a pressing constraint on the current biofuel industry, the biofuels world is starting the transition to next generation biofuels. Emerging powerful market drivers and strong political influences are moving ethanol to the next stage and there is huge interest in the next generation of biofuels from the oil majors. Could this be the beginning of a new branch of industry that could grow bigger than the existing 1st generation fuel ethanol i more...

Dear Friends

Greetings from SCOPE Pakistan, a NGO working on sustainable development related issues since 1988.

We are pleased to inform you about an e-mail group "CCD Coalition". This is actually a new version of our 6 years old list with the same title. The main idea behind creating this list is to bring stakeholders of UNCCD closer and promote networking. You can post messages, photos, announcements, etc. on this list.

We encourage you to join this list;

To learn more about th more...

An online Urban Youth Journal devoted to urban development

Some facts about Chernobyl are uncertain or disputed. In such cases we follow our principles by presenting the different interpretations, and citing the sources. www.chernobyl.info thus lives up to its stated goal of providing independent and impartial information.
Here you will find the background to projects in the management of the Chernobyl disaster that are underway or have been realised.

This Project: Global Safety Map invite students to learn about natural disasters, share information, prepare for coming natural disasters activities on earth. Invite students, teachers, youth groups interested in learning to participate, online or by attending local workshops/seminars.

Designed to raise participants with an international perspective and the ability to take action when and where necesary. Raise community awareness, enhance participants awareness for community education of natu more...

According to the United Nations Childrens’s Fund (UNICEF), the South Asian earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale, left between 1.6 and 2.2 million children affected. An estimated 80,000 to 90,000 were also killed and over three million people rendered homeless.Of those children that came out alive many had suffered head injuries and multiple limb fractures calling for amputations. UNICEF estimates that nearly 20,000 children ''will have physical impairments after this tragedy due to i more...

The Greenheart Project has recently launched an international poster,
postcard and flash web design contest for students around the world with the
theme of "Green Power". http://www.greenheartproject.org/page14.html. The
contest is being supported by a group of international NGO's including;
Friends of the Earth International, Care International, Oxfam, International Children's Art Foundation among others.

The Greenheart Project is an NGO dedicated to building a fleet of unique,
zero-emi more...

The young people at Gimomoi Youth Polytechnic in western Kenya — leaders in agroforestry and natural resource management in their community — have been recognized with a grant from the Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation based in the US.

In recent years, the polytechnic — which provides practical skills such as tailoring, carpentry and masonry to students with little more than a primary school education — has incorporated agroforestry into their curriculum.

The polytechnic more...

In order to effectively address key issues in environment, environment practitioners need up-to-date
knowledge and information regarding the latest developments in their field. The Development Gateway’s
Environment and Development Topic Page is an Internet portal that many practitioners use to find such
information. Our mission is to help practitioners achieve their goals more efficiently and with greater
outcomes. In an effort to address the most pertinent needs of our members, we perform more...