In February, NextNow Collab helped launch the Ecological Creditor Nation Summit initiated by the Global Footprint Network. Brazil is one of the approximately 20% of nations studied that maintains Ecological Creditor status. Now NextNow Collab partner State of the World Forum is moving its Washington D.C. conference from November 2009 to February, 2010, largely due to the extensive involvement of Brazil, which is launching a Brazil 2020 campaign in partnership with the Forum in August 2009–the developments of which will go far in informing the subsequent Forum in Washington, D.C.– and which we plan to attend. All of these efforts…
Month: June 2009
Small Way to Help Create a Large Awareness: Collecting Serious Sand
This invitation to make a contribution to the study and communication of plastic pollution comes from Daniella Russo of Sea Studios Foundation, who forwarded it to me as part of our work with the Strategic Council on Plastic Pollution. Sea Studios Foundation is the organization behind the Clinton Global Initiative, Strange Days on Planet Earth, 2020: Strange Days on Planet Earth, 2020 Imagine Earth in the year 2020… the world has embarked on a winning path to slow climate change; clean energy use is exploding around the globe; all people have access to clean and fresh water; we are feeding…
NextNow Collaboratory Joins with Strategic Council on Plastic Pollution–Please Add Your Support (UPDATED)
This post now includes 3 new links: June 12, 2009 Mother Nature News (see comments for Capt. Moore’s insights re this innovation), June 9, 2009 U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags, and the April 2009 U.N. report ‘Marine Litter: A Global Problem.’ Last week, NextNow Collab joined with the new Strategic Council on Plastic Pollution at Google in Mountain View to help raise awareness of the rising threat plastic pollution poses to the health of the world’s oceans and all life that depends on them–that is, all life. The day started with a presentation to Google by…
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