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1. Suggestions for Prayer, Study, and Action
The Canticle of the Creatures
St. Francis of Assisi (13th Century CE)
We praise You, Lord, for all Your creatures,
especially for Brother Sun,
who is the day through whom You give us light.
And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendor,
of You Most High, he bears your likeness.
We praise You, Lord, for Sister Moon and the stars,
in the heavens you have made them bright,
precious and fair.
We praise You, Lord, for Brothers Wind and Air,
fair and stormy, all weather's moods,
by which You cherish all that You have made.
We praise You, Lord, for Sister Water,
so useful, humble, precious and pure.
We praise You, Lord, for Brother Fire,
through whom You light the night.
He is beautiful, playful, robust, and strong.
We praise You, Lord, for Sister Earth,
who sustains us
with her fruits, colored flowers, and herbs.
Source: Prayer Foundation.
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Source: Wikigender
SOLAR ENERGY IS THE FUTURE.
LET US PRAY FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SOLAR ENERGY!
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*The Nobel Laureate Symposium Series on Global Sustainability was initiated in 2007 at
Potsdam and continued by the St James’s Palace Symposium in spring 2009. This
Symposium series unites Nobel Laureates of various disciplines, top-level representatives from
politics and NGOs, and renowned experts on sustainability. To read the 2011 memo, click
here.
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2. News, Publications, Tools, and Conferences
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NEWS
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PUBLICATIONS
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TOOLS & DATABASES
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CONFERENCES & JOURNALS
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3. Advances in Sustainable Development
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Energy for Sustainable Human Development, UNIDO, 2011.
Monitoring and Tracking Long-Term Finance to Support Climate Action, Barbara Buchner (CPI), Jessica Brown (ODI) and Jan Corfee-Morlot (OECD), OECD, May 2011.
UK National Ecosystem Assessment: The True Value of Nature, UK DEFRA - 3 June 2011.
Sustainable Development Policy & Practice, A Knowledgebase of International Activities Preparing for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio +20)
IISD, 2011
ISO 26000 – Social responsibility, International Standards Organization, 2011.
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4. Advances in Integral Human Development
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Sustainable Human Development in the Twenty-First Century: An Evolutionary Perspective, Ismail Sirageldin. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. EOLSS, June 2011.
Education for Sustainable Human Development, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Fall 2011.
"This course provides a critical introduction to the study of various aspects of sustainability that arise from the complex relationship between 'development' and the 'environment'. The course material is divided into three parts. Part one provides students with critical understandings of 'development' and related notions of 'growth', 'poverty', 'inequality', 'deprivation', 'exclusion', etc. After a brief survey of some major theories of development, we discuss different ways of measuring and applying these concepts qualitatively and quantitatively using various economic, political, social (e.g., education, health, etc) and other indicators, and the problems and challenges. Part two provides a survey of mainstream and critical approaches to 'sustainable development'. We also discuss various perspectives on environmental ethics focusing on how development disparities and patterns of inequality globally and locally affect vulnerability to environmental harm, including notions of “environmental racism”. We then proceed to examine impacts of major drivers of environmental change caused by development processes particularly in the areas of agricultural and industrial development, and pressures from population growth/migration, including land use conversion, pollution and resource depletion, and impacts on freshwater supply and on ecosystems. Part three examines some of the policy and practical challenges in implementing sustainable development measures at various scales. Here, we discuss selected case-studies illustrating conservation measures and sustainable resource use (e.g., Integrated Water Resource Management, biodiversity conservation systems such as Protected Areas and Adaptive Co-management), and climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives (e.g., Clean Development Mechanism projects). We also examine evolving notions of 'sustainable livelihoods' and 'sustainable human development'."
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5. Advances in Integrated Sustainable Development
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Earth Charter and Rio+20 Presentation, WIZIQ Education Online, 2011.
Making Rio 2012 work: Setting the stage for global economic, social and ecological renewal, Alex Evans and David Steven, New York University, June 2011.
The Building Technology Showcase, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, May 2011.
Energy Report & Scenarios 2000-2050, World Wide Fund for Nature, February 2011.
Green Economy Report, United Nations Environmental Program, February 2011.
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6. Sustainability Games, Databases, and Knowledgebases
7. Visualizations of the Sustainable Development Process
Protecting Our Commons
By Sarah van Gelder and Doug Pibel,
Yes! Magazine, 29 July 2007
Water, forests, and other natural "commons" provide the necessities of life. Shared stories, music, and knowledge enliven our cultures. Today, corporations are trying to enclose these and other commons—or externalize their costs onto them. But a movement is gaining momentum to protect our commons for generations to come.
For an animated chart where you can hover over the symbols to learn more about our commons, click
here.
There are links in the same web page to download 8.5x11 and 11x17 posters.
Courtesy of Yes! Magazine.
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8. Sustainable Development Modeling and Simulation
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Energy infrastructures as socio-technical systems
Simulating Energy Transitions, Emile Chappin, Delft University, 16 June 2011, Figure 1.2, page 3.
Electricity and CO2 prices and CO2 emission levels for three carbon policies
Simulating Energy Transitions, Emile Chappin, Delft University, 16 June 2011, Figures 4.13a and 4.13b, page 110.
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9. Sustainable Development and the International Community
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Millennium Development Goals for 2015, Gateway to the UN System's Work on the MDGs.
Education for Sustainable Development, United Nations "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), UNESCO.
Are We Learning to Change?
Mapping Global Progress in Education for Sustainable Development, Daniella Tilbury, UNESCO/IRIS, 2011.
17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17)
South Africa plays host to the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will be held in Durban from November 28 to December 9, 2011. With slow progress having been achieved at previous meetings, expectations are high for the talks to usher in a just, equitable and binding international agreement to deal, decisively, with the threat of global climate change. See Negotiators should resolve political issues ahead of Durban climate talks, by Christy van der Merwe, Engineering News, 19 July 2011.
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