Tag Archives: policy

Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution

In an effort to reduce the undocumented and unlimited rising of oceanic noise pollution, the US government is completing the first phase of a project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which seeks to document human-made noises in the ocean and transform the results into the world’s first oceanic sound maps. The first results [...]

Occupy the Seed

FORTNIGHT OF ACTIONS FOR SEED FREEDOM 2nd – 16th October 2012 The Global Alliance for Seed Freedom is planing a phase of action to raise global public awareness regarding Seed Freedom. Dr. Vandana Shiva, environmental activist and seed defender, spearheading the movement, was interviewed by the International Permaculture Day, speaking of “the importance of seed [...]

Addressing Children’s Nature-Deficit Disorder: Bold Actions by Conservation Leaders Worldwide

The 2012 World Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Jeju, South Korea turned out to be a big boost for the worldwide movement to re-connect children and nature. At the prestigious and influential Congress, which convenes every four years, more than 10,000 people representing 150 nations and more than [...]

A Call for Youth to Attend the International Climate Negotiations

SustainUS is accepting applications to go to the United Nations climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar. All youth 18-26 are eligible to apply to attend as a youth delegate  in Doha, Qatar from November 26 to December 7, 2012. Before the conference youth train other youth to be adept at understanding international climate policy, lobbying, communicating [...]

Review of the Cultura21 event “Can Artists Change China?”

On June 16th, Cultura21 – together with partners – invited panelists with broad experience and knowledge concerning the art sector and the human rights situation in China for a discussion around the arrest of Ai Weiwei. The event was attended by more than a hundred people of all ages. See also: Press articles on the [...]

Congress: “Right to the City”

June 2nd to 5th 2011 in Hamburg “The urban is defined as the place where people walk around, find themselves standing before and inside piles of objects, experience the intertwining of the threads of their activities until they become unrecognizable, entangle situations in such a way that they engender unexpected situations.” (Henri Lefèbvre: La révolution urbaine) [...]

Living as Form – Public Talks in New York City

The public talks aim at furthering the discussions surrounding socially engaged practices. They are free and open to the public. All talks will be held from 6:30–8:00pm in the Rose Auditorium at 41 Cooper Square, New York City. The first talk “Considering Useful Art” will take place on May 18th 2011 with Claire Bishop, who is an Associate Professor [...]

Call for Proposals of Wishful Thinking

Write a proposal to a US government agency - Deadline: 1st of May. As self-declared Artists in Residence for the US Government, the Institute for Wishful Thinking (IWT) believes that the community of artists and designers possesses untapped creative and conceptual resources that could be applied to solving social problems. With this in mind they invite [...]

Local and Regional Governments towards RIO+20

A briefing on preparations for the Rio +20 Summit is available from the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), focusing on culture as key element of sustainability: “We believe that the paradigm of sustainable development needs a cultural pillar, and its implementation deserves cultural content. The Agenda 21 for culture (2004), the Policy Statement of [...]

Culture and Sustainable Communities

NEW PUBLICATION: Special Double Issue of Culture and Local Governance on “Culture and Sustainable Communities” http://oa.uottawa.ca/journals/clg-cgl Vol. 3, No. 1-2 Guest editors: Nancy Duxbury, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal; M. Sharon Jeannotte, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa, Canada The wide-spread shift to a sustainability paradigm for city planning makes this [...]

The Sustainable City and the Arts

Update: the deadline for the abstracts submission for the ESA (European Sociological Association) Conference in Geneva has been extended until March 8th 2011. Call for Papers for the Research Stream which will take place in the forthcoming conference of the European Sociological Association from 7. to 10. of Sept. 2011 in Geneva.

Preventing the Possibilities of Misuse of FPIC in REDD

Indigenous peoples have historically been subjected to repeated loss of basic human rights and dignity. Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) requires authorization by the indigenous people before implementing measures likely to affect them and is an important tool of respecting their rights and dignity. But its application in the specific context of REDD has the [...]

What REALLY happened in Copenhagen?

Remember the discussions as to what happened in Copenhagen, and this in anticipation of Cancun we posed ourselves the question what can be done to learn from recent experiences. This 25 page article is well written and formulated in such a way that the reporting is not so much a political positioning but rather a [...]

International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM)

The 13th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) will be hosted by the Refugee Law Project, Kampala, Uganda from June 26 to 30, 2011. Abstracts are due by October 31, 2010.

ESA (European Sociological Association) Research Network on the Sociology of Culture

Call for papers for the next conference of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Research Network on the Sociology of Culture (October 7th-9th 2010 in Milano, Italy): See the attached PDF file, and the conference website at www.esaculturebocconi2010.org Session 15, entitled “the cultures of unsustainability”, is chaired by Prof. Dr. Volker Kirchberg and Sacha Kagan. More [...]