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If you're looking for organisations outside the environmental movement that are pushing sustainability in a major way, a few corporations may come to mind.  Starbucks, say which sees being green as a way to attract employees.  Or perhaps even NewsCorp, which recently became carbon-neutral (ironically enough, given its ownership of such outlets as fox news).  Certain governments, too, are making the push.  Chances are, though, that the US millitary wouldn't come to…

          The environmental movement looks completely different from the inside than it does from the outside.  Often, somebody on the outside looking in, it seems to be much more united, much larger than it actually is.  First, the movement seems to be animated by a (relatively) smaller group of hyperactive, workaholic types.  That, though, is not what I want to talk about.

          Recently, as I mentioned in my last post, i was in New York for the 2nd Prepcomm for the rio…

Late last year, in the closing month of 2010, I found myself having a phone con-versation with my superior at an NGO I belong to. This itself was not unusual. The topic, however, was. Did I want to go to New York City in March to participate in some UN meetings? Invitations to events in other cities and countries come fairly often if you’re involved in the environmental movement, but the nature of it is that that you…

If like many people you have been following the news recently, you ahve been witness to a historic event.  First, there was tunisia- spontaneous protests spread like wildfire throughout the country, and before anybody really realised what had happened, the ruling Ben Ali family had been outsted.  Shockwaves rippled through the arab world, and others began to wonder if they could do the same.  And now, only nineteen days later, the Egyptian Government, police state and all, has been toppled. …