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...

US Input to Rio+20

Along with more than 600 other submissions, the United States government posted its comments and...

North Americans meet to discuss Rio+20

North American Civil Society Groups Meet

March 8, 2011, New York. On March 7-8 the United Nations held its...

EPA's new sustainability framework

The National Researach Council has released its report, in response to a request from EPA, on a framework for incorporating sustainabilitiy into the EPA's principles and decision making, helping...

UN Under-Secretary General calls for US leadership on Rio+20

 On June 28, 2011, UN Under General Secretary Sha Zukang spoke at the National Press Club in...

Rio+20 co-chairs invite inputs for compilation document

This past March the co-chairs of the UNCSD Bureau prepared a "guidance note" for inputs from Member States and "other stakeholders" into a compilation document "to serve...

2nd anniversary of Partnership for Sustainable Communities

It is now two years since President Obama announced the...

$65 million for regional sustainability planning

June 21, 2011, Washington, DC. For years CitNet members have talked about the need for sustainability planning -- at all levels. Today Housing and Urban Development Secretary Donovan...

MD is first state to require environmental literacy

Yesterday Maryland became the first state in the country to include environmental literacy as a requirement for high school education. This "defining moment" will equip Maryland students...

Is green marketing over?

For years the debate has raged over the role "green marketing" would play within the sustainability movement, the power of increasingly aware and responsible consumers "voting with...