Experience grenades: You play them, and that's like pulling the pin on the grenade. Nothing has to happen right away. Nothing has to change or be solved right away. Then, you wait. It's later -- an hour later, a day later, a week later, a month later...

“EcoTipping Points” are levers that turn environmental decline to a course of restoration and sustainability. The ECT Project website features 100 outstanding solutions that have spread through hundreds of communities and been adopted by states.

From 50 years experience in ecological research, Gerald Marten explains why we have environmental problems and what we can do about them. The explanation employs a “systems perspective” that: Shows how human society and the environment function as se...

Today's leading organisation for Youth Leadership was born in a time when the Nancy Reagan called to the young generation to “Just Say No”, a 16 year old Californian youth found there’s something fundamentally wrong in this, and thought the much bett...

The Leveraging Privilege Jam is a week-long event that connects, supports and inspires 30 diverse and committed young people with wealth, fame and/or social impact whose lives are dedicated to building a thriving, just and sustainable world for all. ...

The Project for Public Spaces PPS (USA) has been transforming public spaces into lively meeting places for more than 30 years. Their website has fabulous good and worst practice examples, and lots of know-how and ideas. A must-see: www.pps.org...

Holistic Coffee Farming, Tourism, Agriculture, Safeguarding Biodiversity - Finca Esperanza Verde, Nicaragua, is a successful model for ensuring clean water, incomes, community & learning. An outstanding example of international community development ...

Viable solutions for 10 million tube wells contaminated with poisonous arsenic

This fun flash movie explains you everything you need to understand about why and how all the stuff we use and trash destroys the world.

San Francisco's city council voted 10-1 for banning plastic bags from consumer stores. The reasons are clear: An annual volume of more than 180 million plastic bags in California alone adds to polluting the oceans, the land, and wasting oil on a big ...

Scientists have achieved a decades-long goal: to break the 40-percent efficiency barrier on solar cell devices.

At Saugus High, California, USA, motivated senior students are launching a broad program for educating their peers and community on global issues like climate change and sustainability. Their initiative includes film screenings, recycling programs, c...

Whoever has seen and experienced "Clowning & Krumping" knows the magic that Tommy stands for: dynamite dance, powerful vibes, challenge, energy, theater, ... old, traditional energies and ways exploding in the modern arena - with - Youth! Clown crews...

For the women of the world, the International Women's Day is an occasion to "review how far they have come in their struggle for equality, peace and development. It is also an opportunity to unite, network and mobilize for meaningful change".

At its annual gala awards ceremony due to take place in Nova Scotia this May, the Canadian Association of Journalists will include one award which nominees will not be hankering after. This is because the Code of Silence Award is attributed to the C...