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Building peace through environmental conservation

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 05 August 2010 in Peace

In recent decades debates about the relationship between the environment and peace have focused on how environmental problems like resource scarcity and climate change are likely to create or exacerbate conflict. The emerging discussion that links rising temperatures caused by climate change...

Hands Across the Sand Story from Lauderdale, FL

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 25 June 2010 in Peace

Brenda Leahy lives two blocks from the beach in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, where her kids, 3 and 5, love playing in the sand and splashing in the water. But Leahy, 46, a Navy veteran in pharmaceutical sales, wonders how much longer they'll have the pleasure. ``I have been so incredibly upset...

Commentary: Earth Day is about recovering the environment and the economy

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 in Peace

By Jane Lubchenco | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Forty years ago, the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson gave birth to Earth Day when he stood up for the environment, calling upon the American people to come together for a simple teach-in on the environment. The first Earth Day was a catal...

One man, one moment: How Earth day changed the world

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 04 April 2010 in Peace

A Wisconsin senator's idea mobilized a green generationBY ROCKY BARKER (http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/04/17/1152179/one-man-one-moment-how-earth-day.html) One U.S. senator and a core of young organizers made April 22, 1970, the day the environmental movement began. That day, 20 million Americ...

40th Anniversary of Earth Day April 22, 2010

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 01 April 2010 in Peace

Forty years after the first Earth Day , the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future. Earth Da...

History of Earth Day

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 01 April 2010 in Peace

The United Nations celebrates Earth Day each year on the spring equinox, which is often 20 March. This is a tradition which was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969. The United Nations Earth Day is similar to World Environment Day. Earth Day 2010 will be on 22 April. The First Earth Day...

Global Peace Day

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 August 2009 in Peace

Global Peace Day Sept 21, 2009 We invite You to Mark, Create and Take a STAND Globally for PEACE. To Celebrate with us together FREELY & UNIQUELY as ONE VOICE in Your Own Way... ~The Global Ceasefire between All United Nations Countries. To acknowledge All people who bring peace to the world, ...

Celebrate the World Environment Day with the Earth Charter!

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 09 June 2009 in Peace

Celebrate the World Environment day with the Earth Charter! We are living in challenging times. As members of the community of life on Earth, we have jeopardized our own existence and the right to life of many other living beings through extensive environmental alteration. Our individual andshared ...

No, I Don't Want To Rock

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 23 February 2009 in Peace

I'm definitely a campfire kid. As a boy I was lucky enough to get sent north every summer to live for a month or so in a cabin beside a lake, surrounded by thick forests of pine and birch, where I would learn to say strange Indian names, and be a Mohawk or an Algonquin or an Iroquois. We'd carve ti...