Ten Blogs on Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Causes
This roundup of mine represents a range of discourses, all of them tied up in the sustainability and humanitarian endeavors. Regardless of your particular profession or interests each merits a look.
Slate’s Green Lantern provides “illuminating answers to environmental questions” as Brendan I. Koerner flips the switch to serve up the wisdom. Also look here at the more interactive “Reader Discussion Forum”.
“The Energy Revolution has begun and will change your lifestyle.” Enough said.
Because even those cloistered deep within the state-run behemoths of nationalized petroleum quietly acknowledge that peak oil looms just beyond the horizon.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
The IISD is a formidable institution founded in 1990 in the vanguard of the sustainable development movement. They openly confess their recent turn to the blogosphere: “Frankly we’re more used to publishing 200-page research reports!” But, we say to our friends at IISD, there is a time for everything.
Environmental and Urban Economics
This exchange is run by Matthew E. Kahn, a professor of economics at UCLA, and will be of particular interest to those wishing to learn about the challenges posed by our cities, now home to half the world’s population.
John van Doren, an architect and engineer by training, maintains this blogspot dedicated to reaching a more sustainable paradigm in our home construction and maintenance industries. It’s definitely worth a visit to see the unnecessary wastefulness of our present comforts, a lagging legacy of blissful past generation complacency in a pre-climate change world.
This blog has given a certain focus to topics of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Strategic Sustainability Consulting Blog
This site posts news and commentary from Strategic Sustainability Consulting, a Bethesda, Maryland outfit dedicated to helping companies achieve their sustainability objectives.
This blog summarizes and highlights the best of the humanitarian blogosphere.
Visit the official blog of NEED - The Humanitarian Magazine.