Sustainable America 2012: How Sustainable is Your Candidate?

Widener Law School's Environmental Law Center has created a website showing the positions of the major party U.S. Presidential candidates...

Rio+20 begins

Rio de Janeiro. After months of preparations and anticipation, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development begins.

Expectations on the outcomes of this meeting are mixed, depending on what group and interests you represent. While many...

Earth Day 2012

 Washington, DC. It is now 42 years since Earth Day was first launched, serving as an ongoing reminder of the struggle to protect the environment from the onslaught of impacts from modern industrial civilization's insatiable...

Citizens Summit on Sustainable Development

CitNet was one of the organizers of this meeting to prepare for the June 2012 UN Conference on Environment & Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20). It was held at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in New Haven,...

Livestreaming of Citizens Summit

We are excited to announce that three sessions of the Citizens' Summit will be livestreamed at http://www.livestream.com/yale. The only necessary equipment is a...

Citizens Summit on Sustainable Development

On March 24-25, the US-Canada Citizens Summit on Sustainable Development will bring together citizen organizations and networks, educators, government policymakers, business...