New York City Earth Week: Thought Leaders Converge to Discuss Sustainability

By Martha Shaw New York City was alive with ‘meetings of the minds’ around Earth Day. The Sustainable Operations Summit The Sustainable Operations Summit gathered together some of the brightest bulbs in the energy industry for two days of workshops and discussions on pressing issues like waste, cleaner fleets, cities, efficiency, innovations, and clean technology’ […]

Missing Voices: Green Business Leaders Discuss Representation at Rio+20

Missing Voices: Green Business Leaders Discuss Representation at Rio+20 Sustainability and Green Leaders Meet with United Nations to offer representation at Rio+20. By Martha Shaw and Aman Singh Nearly 100 sustainable business leaders crowded onto the 10th floor of the UN Church Center in New York City on May 1st to join a conversation with […]

Fisheries up for Grabs: Who owns our fish? By Martha Shaw

http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/400-fisheries-up-for-grabs-who-owns-our-fish Out of sight and out of mind, the most valuable fisheries on Earth are up for grabs. Submitted by:Martha Shaw Posted: May 09, 2012 – 11:51 AM EST Tags: fisheries, rio20, united nations, seafood, sustainability It’s called ABNJ or Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, and makes up 64 percent of the surface of the world’s […]

Who owns the fish? UN meetings focus on eminent tuna collapse.

Out of sight and out of mind, the most valuable fisheries on Earth are up for grabs. May 8, 2012, United Nations- It’s called ABNJ, which stands for Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, and it makes up 64% of the surface of the world’s oceans. Yet, this part of the planet has no protection from the […]

Durban Climate Talks Highlight Agreement, Not Negotiation

As thousands of Occupy COP 17 demonstrators protested the injustice of climate change and slow progress of governments to do something about it, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), addressed the crowd last Friday. “Do more than you think you can do, and then do more,” she summoned […]

US and Canadian Youth Demand Generational Justice

The U.S. youth at the climate talks are making a big play for justice on behalf of their generation during the last days of COP 17, claiming that the U.S. negotiators are putting their futures at risk. Abigail Borah, a student from Middlebury College interrupted lead U.S. negotiator Todd Stern’s concluding plenary speech on Thursday, […]

Can developed and developing countries find common ground?

By CSRwire Contributing Writer Martha Shaw The 19th annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-19) opened with hopes countries will agree on policy decisions that will significantly improve the safe use of chemicals, management of waste, safety in mining, efficiency of transport and reduction of the world’s consumption of Earth’s materials. […]

The guts to change the world: Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2011 “Conversations on Courage” results in hundred of commitments to do good

The guts to change the world: Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2011 “Conversations on Courage” results in hundreds of commitments to do good. NEW YORK, Sep. 22 /CSRwire/- Courage may hold the most hope for mankind as we face a future wrought with complex problems of all kinds that can appear insurmountable. This is the underlying […]

Virgin-tree paper companies spend millions on “paper propaganda.”

Virgin-tree paper companies spend millions on “paper propaganda.” We’re the first to commend companies in any industry that adopt environmentally responsible practices. That’s why we celebrated when the virgin-tree paper mill companies began to use their wood scrap as biomass to supply some of their highly intensive energy needs. However, a creative, well-funded campaign is […]