sustainable-development

pando | sustainable communities (network)

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:26:20 +0100

Pando.sc is an online community with a professional focus, where researchers, academics, and public and private-sector practitioners share knowledge, network, and collaborate on sustainability solutions that can be enacted at the community level - such as green building, reduction and recycling of local waste, water management, participatory democracy, land use, and much more.

Pando is a collaboration between:

* The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions

* SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development

* BC Climate Action Secretariat

* Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability

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On Pando | Sustainable Communities, you'll enjoy opportunities to meet, discuss, share and collaborate with professionals researching and working on community-level sustainability solutions.

Key features include:

* the opportunity to post, view, and connect through professional profiles;

* current, high-quality content tailored to your professional and research interests;

* moderated, members-only discussion forums;

* a place to share sustainability success stories and cutting-edge research;

* calendars to post events of interest;

* functions to arrange in-person meetings at posted events;

* opportunities to post and browse requests for proposals and job opportunities;

* advanced search features enabling you to locate colleagues, tools and resources most relevant to you

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The Path to Sustainable Development, by Jeffrey Sachs

Sun, 11 May 2014 15:29:41 +0100

"Sustainable Development". Sorry... what?

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:18:58 +0100

What does "the three pillar concept of sustainability" mean?

It means the pursuit of economic development with respect to social and environmental principles. It means economic growth, but taking into account the needs of man and nature as well.

I don't totally agree with this definition, which is definitely the best known and most widely utilized, but some the world's largest and most powerful organizations do agree: Brundtland Commission Report 1987, Earth Summit 1992 and Agenda 21, Johannesburg Summit 2002, World Summit 2005, Rio+20 2012, International Institute for Sustainable Development... and there are many more sources that can help you understand what that "sustainable development" everyone talks about is...