sustainable development

In Vermont, VPIRG and the CLF decry both the governor's lackluster protection of the landscape and his lackluster support for giant wind energy facilities in those same landscapes.

If you like learning about potential environmental utopias, you should take a look at this Inhabitat post on The Logroño Montecorvo Eco City project in Rioja, Spain. The future project is “an ambitious carbon neutral development north of [Rioja’s] capital city, Logroño.

Sustainable development, peace, traditions, defense, intercultural exchanges. That is my first HUGG.COM post I shared in that Social site. I hope that will start a new, good adventure.

Part of planning a new business venture is figuring out how you will manage day-to-day operations and make decisions.

Project Bija is a new concept for seeding sustainability - we need your vote to make it a reality. Bija means seed and the project is about creating a website to map the layers of sustainable development at different scales to allow more joined up thinking between policymakers, private companies, non-profits and the public.  Wouldn't it be useful to know which other organisations were working in your locality?

The project has been submitted to the netsquared conference competition and needs your vote to get the chance of winning $100,000 funding to make the project a reality.

This is the first blog entry of my new blog where I try to clarify what in my opinion the concept of sustainability currently encompasses. I have identified three main components which in my opinion make up Sustainability.

The environmental impact of industrial and residential development became a hot topic after hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged the Louisiana coast in 2005, and many called for green rebuilding in the wake of these disasters. On Sunday, the editorial page of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune presented similar thoughts on transportation development in Minnesota in the wake of the August 1 bridge collapse.