environmental policy

Following Sarah Palin’s key speech at the Republican Convention, BBC news asked readers around the world for there reactions. A straw poll of the many hundreds of responses seems to indicate that the majority of those outside of the US are unimpressed.

The collective Environment Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) recently agreed on a mandate not only for a full-fledged work program on environmental protection, but also for a (binding?) CARICOM agreement on it to be known as the Environmental and Natural Resource Policy Framework (CENRPF) to be ready for approval within 12 months. The CENRPF is likely to reshape environmental law among the CARICOM member states.

The North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is charting where Mexico, Canada & the US will go in environmental policy cooperation until 2030. Which challenges are they facing? What should they make their priorities?

Associated Press has announced that Barack Obama’s delegate count has reached the level needed to secure the nomination, and while the rest of the country waits for Hillary to finally step aside, it is time to take a closer look at the environmental policy of the likely next pr

John McCain has released the main details of what his environmental policy would be if he were elected president in November. He is supporting a cap-and-trade system, a big break from the current administration, but has targets below those of both potential Democratic candidates. See it on www.cutyourfootprint.com

The House is scheduled today to vote on H.R. 2016, the National Landscape Conservation Act. And a broad bipartisan coalition ranging from such groups as the Wilderness Society to Republicans for Environmental Protection, is asking you to call your Representative and demand that they support the landmark wilderness conservation legislation.

Despite the fact that the technology for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) does not exist yet, Wyoming has gone ahead and passed a bill that smooths the way for CCS and clean coal in their state.

Should I stay or should I go?  Or could I at least have a cup of coffee without throwing millions of paper cups in the trash?  This is maybe why I've never met any environmentalists at Starbucks.

Make your office environmentally friendly in less than 10 minutes. A quick and easy guide to go green NOW!

The students expected to be leading the green revolution prefer making green over being green. That is according to a study which surveyed 527 MBA students at 12 top-ranked international business schools where only 34% of the students viewed a company's environmental policy as an "extremely" or "very important" factor in selecting an employer.

Randy Cohen, the man who sorts out readers' ethical dilemmas in his NY Times Magazine feature column The Ethicist , weighs in on the automobile's impact on urban life.

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Our Common Future: From One Earth to One World
A friend - a businessman who is devoted to educating disadvantaged children, who contributes his own money and time out of his life to get them into good schools and change policies that keep them in poor ones - expressed some exasperation toward "greenies" over lunch recently. I told him about my involvement in the sustainability movement, and he said he hoped I wasn't doing anything that would interfere with free markets. I assured him that I am, just a mother and grandmother, unlikely to have much sway over markets.