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A number of articles were written for the VISION e-Journal on Russian Culture & Heritage. Access the document with all these interesting articles here.
Continue reading...Millennium Development Goal # 7 -Ensure Environmental Sustainability:How are we doing?
1. May 2006
Author: Atish Bajpai MSc (Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure); Kungl Tekniska Hagskolan, Stockholm, Sweden The environment is in trouble and the United Nations is implementing plans in many areas to make the environment sustainable. Millennium goal 7 sets out the following 3 targets in the area of environmental sustainability about energy/forests/biodiversity, water & sanitation, and slums. Target 9: [...]
Continue reading...Oil terminals and coastal ecosystems: can they co-exist sustainably?
1. May 2006
On the example of the Kristinneberg town, Sweden by Maria Shilina Continuing the topic of sustainability in the oil sector: one of the main conditions of sustainable development is the ecological safety of coastal zones, where the anthropogenic pressure is constantly increasing. The article describes the results of research on how the exploitation of the oil [...]
Continue reading...The Ghana coup of 24 February 1966
22. March 2006
40 years ago on the 24th of February 1966, some officers of the Ghanaian armed forces ousted Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first post independence leader of Ghana and firebrand pan Africanist, whilst he was on his way to Hanoi mediate peace between America and Vietnam. That coup set the pace for the instability and underdevelopment [...]
Continue reading...Sustainable Oil transportation in the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)
16. March 2006
Social, economical, geopolitical, environmental aspects Wednesday 15 March 2006, by Maria Shilina The oil terminal capacity in the Russian territory of the Baltic Sea is constantly increasing. Primorsk is developing to the biggest oil terminal around the Baltic Sea. The question is, how to make this development sustainable. Summary The problems of sustainable oil transportation in the Gulf of [...]
Continue reading...Socio-economic challenges and restoration efforts in sustainable watershed management in Gursum, Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia
14. March 2006
Paper by Shawel Betru , KAJI Mikio, Institute of Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, presented at the Annual Meeting 2005 if the WSC-SD at MIT, Cambridge USA. Abstract Access to clean water has always been very important and this is one of the major issues addressed by ï½”he Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for developing countries. Water [...]
Continue reading...A case study of arsenic removal on Sorghum Biomass; A new biomaterial
10. March 2006
by Jorge Porras Large scale, field experiments were conducted for the removal of arsenic from the groundwater of a well located in Guanajuato, Mexico region using non-immobilized sorghum biomass (NISB) as a sorbent, which was found highly efficient to adsorb As in previous laboratory experiments. The columns were run under gravity and pump flow conditions. Removal [...]
Continue reading...NAFTA’s Legacy: An Environmentalist’s Worst Nightmare?
23. December 2005
by Alexander Daniels, Yale University The rise of regional trade agreements throughout the world has sparked debate between defenders and opponents of liberalized, free trade. It has become common rhetoric among anti-trade activists to denounce the environmental effects of such trade agreements. At the same time, free trade proponents often inflate the potential benefits of a [...]
Continue reading...Pushing the Green Button
23. December 2005
by Zinaida Perova, Zinaida Perova, Department of Physics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University “The Best European Ecological Project” — this is how international experts refer to the Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant (SWTP), which was opened in St. Petersburg on September 22, 2005. But what consequences await it in the future? Almost a month ago Swedish [...]
Continue reading...Saint-Petersburg’s way of fighting floods.
21. December 2005
by Dmitriy Generalnickiy Even though floods bring plenty of destruction in this world, for most modern people it seems ridiculous that a big city could be ruined by a flood. Thatâ€TMs why many governments donâ€TMt take the problem seriously. According to the Financial Times, Mr. Bush acknowledged that authorities had not been prepared for the catastrophe [...]
Continue reading...- World Social Forum
- Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Sustainability of Cities
- S3.Zurich | Call for Papers & Posters!
- 2008 Student Summit for Sustainability: Regina, Canada
- African Climate Change Conference
- World Happiness | Call for Photos!
- 3rd Global Forum on Engineering Education
- World Environment Day Celebrations, Kenya
- African Climate Change Conference
- Projects of the WSC-SD
- Student Communities (10)
- 2008 Student Summit for Sustainability: Regina, Canada (3)
- Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty (3)
- Ecotonoha (2)
- EarthWalker(Paul Coleman) (2)
- Student Conference | Kathmandu, Nepal (2)
- Rajesh (1)
- Projects of the WSC-SD (1)
- Uju (1)
- Solid Waste Management in a Developing Country: Towards a Sustainable Solution (1)
- S3.Zurich | Registration Open
- The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
- African Climate Change Conference
Asides 
The next Student Summit for Sustainability (S3.Zurich) will be hosted in Zurich, Switzerland from 25 January - 1 February 2009. The deadlines for abstract submissions and funding applications have passed, but registration is still open for all students interested in attending. Please visit this page to learn more about this exciting summit!
30. December 2006
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