Widener Law School's Environmental Law Center has created a website showing the positions of the major party U.S. Presidential candidates and Pennsylvania Senate candidates on a variety of sustainability issues.

June 19, 20012,  1:15 - 2:45 pm, Barra Arena, Rio de Janeiro

Organized by Citizens Network for Sustainable Development and partners

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

 June 19, 2012.

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).

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 computer with access to the internet.

The panels streamed will be:

On March 24-25, the US-Canada Citizens Summit on Sustainable Development will bring together citizen organizations and networks, educators, government policymakers, business representatives, youth and others across North America to review progress towards sustainability since the 1992 Earth Summit and to identity the key p

The United Nations has finally released the document which everyone in the Rio+20 queue has been waiting for -- the so-called "zero draft" document which lays out the field of verbal battle that will take place over the next five m

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.

Along with more than 600 other submissions, the United States government posted its comments and recommendations to be added to the Chairman's "Compilation Document" to be discussed this December at the 2nd UN Intercessional meeting for Rio+20.