Sustainable development blog : ecology and humanitarian aid

23 September 2011: The seventh “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference concluded with the adoption of a Ministerial Declaration titled “Save water, grow green!” Through the Declaration, ministers agree to take the lead in the transition to a green economy and to make substantive contributions to the discussions on green economy within the context of sustainable development, poverty alleviation and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). Read more »

November 19th is World Toilet Day.

Picture courtesy World Toilet Day.

In September  2000 the United Nations adopted the Millenium Development Goals (MDG's), which were supposed to set clear goals for many development issues throughout the world. It also set time frames to reach

It’s Blog Action Day 2010 and with a theme of water, perhaps a good place to start would be in determining your water footprint. Read more »

By André Humbert, translated by Katherine Liakos.

World water scarcity in 2025. Courtesy of International Water Management Institute.

Today is Blog Action Day, dedicated to the topic of water. For a long time research on water concentrated on the location and the importance of sources, on their natural quality and the improvement of sampling techniques. If a researcher wanted to contribute to the progress of humanity he must strive to discover new methods of storage and pumping irrigation water. The most useful studies were those which

Okay we all know the facts; 70% of the Earth is covered by water; 97% of that is saltwater and freshwater makes up less than 1%. It’s vital to ecosystems; rivers and lakes provide habitat for fish and other aquatic species; wetlands help filter pollutants and nutrients and mitigate flooding.

Water can also influence climate; large lakes can

That's a simple but witty process : water fallen down the washbasin is used again for the toilet bowl.

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"Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge This is what the sailor, lost at sea, says when he realizes he's going to die from thirst in the middle of the ocean. And so shall we say when fresh water supplies will have disappeared...

According to a recent article I read (click here to read it), 70% of sustainability experts think that

Uranium, oil, water, natural gas - as power sources, all have the potential to run out during the course of human development, perhaps in the next couple of hundred years. Renewable sources can fudge this problem by using energy sources that either will last longer than the human race or