Sustainable Community Action

February

  • Growing e-waste threat to health and the environment. Urgent need to prepare developing countries, says UN, 22 February [1] topic


Bangladesh, India: The Relationship Between Water Crisis And Migration, February 19 [2] Sowmya Suryanarayanan at Strategic Foresight opines that the lack of freshwater resources in Bangladesh “is a massive threat and will remain a primary reason for cross border migration in the future.”

  • India: Managing Mountain Waste, February 17 [3] Caroline At India Climate Solutions writes about some “creative and passionate individuals committed to changing the waste cycle” in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh in India.
  • Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ , February 14 [4] topic
  • Why maps will become THE way we pool very local information. February 13th, 2010 [5] topic
  • Worried about the looming water shortage in many parts of Thailand, writer Veera Prateepchaikul calls for the drafting and implementation of a comprehensive water policy in the country, February 13 [6]

Inequality as Policy? Feb 09 [7] topic

  • When Coal Flows Between Countries, Who ‘Owns’ the CO2? February 9 [8] topic


January

  • Copenhagen Accord recycles old climate commitments, leaving the world heading for catastrophic climate change, 31 January [9] topic
  • Crisis in policymaking for people and planet demands new approach to policymaking that gives citizens a greater say in decisions that affect them, 27/01/2010 [10] topic
  • "I want my country back " 26 January [11] Environmental blogger Hemant Anant Jain aka Munna, writes a thought-provoking post on 26th January, the nation's 61st Republic Day, urging people to look beyond the commercial “growing market” tag and work towards restoring the rich environmental heritage of the amazing country that is India. [12]
  • The Next Decade's Top Sustainability Trends, WorldChanging Team, 5 Jan 10 [13] topic


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References

  1. United Nations Environment Programme, 22 February 2010
  2. Gobal Voices Online, by Rezwan, February 19th, 2010
  3. Gobal Voices Online, by Rezwan, February 17th, 2010
  4. cityofsound, February 14, 2010
  5. Podnosh, February 13th, 2010
  6. Global Voices Online, Mong Palatino, February 13th, 2010
  7. Economist's View, Feb 09, 2010
  8. Dot Earth blog, February 9, 2010
  9. Greenpeace, 31 January 2010
  10. International Institute for Environment and Development, 27/01/2010
  11. Munna on the run, 26 January 2010
  12. Global Voices Online,
  13. Worldchanging, 5 Jan 10