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Sustainability refers to any article or event addressing mechanisms, strategies and tactics to maintain environmental progress.

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Nature crisis ‘must be tackled’

Originally Published by BBC News | Science & Environment | World Edition

This year’s UN biodiversity agreement is likely to hone in on the underlying causes of nature degradation.

Posted on January 28th, 2010
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Sustainability

United Nations Decade for Education and Sustainable Development

For the past few months, students and Earthzine readers from around the world have been discussing sustainability during the 2009 Earthzine Student Essay Competition. According to Earthzine’s Associate Editor for Education, Dr. David F. Mullins, “Educators need to think in the broadest of strokes when they envision sustainability. As the students’ essays and blogs pointed out, sustainability is understood differently in different parts of the world. Sustainability is about social and cultural forces as much as it is the environment. And, that’s exactly what UNESCO has found at the midpoint of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.”

Bernard Combes, posted on December 28th, 2009
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And The Winners Are…

The 2009 Student Essay Competition Sustainability through Earth Observation and Engineering is pleased to announce the winners:
First Place $500 to David Tshimba, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda for
“By Trying to Solve a Problem, Human Beings Have Now Created a New Issue”
Second Place $250 to Sulaiman Tejan Jalloh, Institute of Advanced Management and Technology, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa for
“Agriculture”
Third Place $150 to Benjamin-Axel Mugema, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda for
“Sustainability: From Modernity to Humanity”
More details available inside

Paul Racette, posted on December 21st, 2009
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Climate change stories: ‘We live on the edge’

Originally Published by Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk

Posted on December 16th, 2009
Climate, Sustainability

GEO: An Experiment in Governance

How does the Group on Earth Observation, referenced throughout these pages, actually work? In this insightful commentary, Michael Williams, GEO External Relations Manager, describes how this voluntary organization of 80 Member countries and 57 Participating Organizations gets the work of realizing GEOSS done.

Michael Williams, posted on December 14th, 2009
Articles, Earth Observation, GEOSS/ICEO News, OpEd, Sustainability | No Comments »

Video: Preserving the forests of Indonesia’s Aceh province

Originally Published by Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk

Posted on December 6th, 2009
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Sustainability

The true cost of cheap Christmas presents

Originally Published by Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk

Posted on November 27th, 2009
Economy, Sustainability

Agriculture and Food Availability
Cultivating the City: Mapping and Characterizing Urban Agriculture with Satellite Imagery

Urban agriculture is as old a pursuit as city living. It encompasses gardens scaled in size from windowsill and greenhouse cultivation to miniature farms with livestock, fish, bees, vineyards, orchards, produce, herb and flower gardens. Now remote sensing satellites are acquiring data to measure and help municipalities integrate this activity into city planning.