Three global environmental organizations outline principles for conservation and sustainable development.
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Ingo Heidbrink, Carson Fellow from June 2011 to December 2011, talks about his environmental history of Greenland.
Examines the relationship between the mass consumption of a tropical commodity (bananas) in the United States, and environmental and social change in Honduras during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as “the green republic.” Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country’s national park system.
The main purpose of this canal is to irrigate cotton fields of the Fergana Valley.
The main function of the dam is flood control and the production of energy.
Sean Kheraj discusses the problem of e-waste with the author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, Giles Slade.
The Rio+20 World Summit takes place in Rio de Janeiro.
The UN Conference for Environment and Development (UNED), known as the first “Earth Summit,” takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.