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...

UN releases Rio+20 zero draft document

The United Nations has finally released the document which everyone in the Rio+20 queue has been waiting for -- the so-called "...

International Buy Nothing Day

Perhaps you managed to overcome the temptation to take advantage of all those great deals sweeping across the mass media in celebration of "Black Friday" -- the official launch of the Christmas shopping season. In the United States, a...