SNAP: An Important New Conservation and Human Development Collaboration

At the Clinton Global Initiative on Wednesday, September 25, 2013, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) announced the launch of Science for Nature and People (SNAP). This important collaboration seeks to address conservation and human development issues in the context of increasing global populations and growing resource scarcity. SNAP aims to achieve this lofty goal by exploring knowledge based approaches to managing things like food, water, and energy.

How We Can Engage Businesses and People in Efforts to Combat Climate Change

Effective communications are crucial to efforts to change behavior and integrate sustainability into a corporate culture. Climate Change is an irrefutable scientific fact, but not everyone is on-board, and many of those who accept the science, are not personally engaged. Effective ecological communications involves more than scientific discourse or economic diatribes.

Blog Action Day 2012: The Power of We

In 2012, Blog Action Day takes place on October 15. This year the theme is the Power of We. According the Blog Action Day organizers, Community, Equality, Transparency/Anti-Corruption and Freedom, and People Power are sub-themes of the event. Blog Action Day is the one day of the year where thousands of people come together to focus on one important global topic, and help raise awareness.

Founded in 2007, Blog Action Day brings together bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, data producers and social media users. Hundreds of thousands of people take part in Blog Action Day from a hundred countries all over the planet. They will cover a wide range of interests in dozens of languages. On this day everyone comes together to address one important global topic all on the same day.

Don't Count on the Young to Save the Planet

Many believe that the young are more environmentally oriented, but according to new research this is simply not true. A new study suggests that young people are not concerned about the environment. This research has important implications for the planet and for marketers. Not only are younger people unlikely to work towards a more sustainable future they may also be unlikely to use their buying power to invest in that future.