Block Grant Program Judges Needed
SCOPE OF WORK Grant Competition Judges Arkansas Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program for Small Cities and Counties During this assignment you will serve as a judge for Arkansas Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program for Small Cities and Counties. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 provided the State [...click title for full article...]
Ester Boserup Conference 2010
Conference Date: November 15 – 17, 2010 in Vienna, Austria Call for Contributions Ester Boserup was one of the pioneers of an integrated theoretical approach to questions of development and sustainability. 2010 marks the centennial of her birth. The Ester Boserup Conference 2010 “Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment” wishes [...click title for full article...]
Tufts Institute to Award Annual Economics Prize to Bina Agarwal and Daniel Kahneman
Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute announced today that it will award its annual Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Bina Agarwal of Delhi University in India and Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University. The award ceremony will take place in Spring 2010 at Tufts University and will feature lectures by [...click title for full article...]
Introduction to Ecological Economics
The first edition of Introduction to Ecological Economics, originally published in 1997 by St. Lucie Press, has recently been put up on the Encyclopedia of Earth. The book can be read by anyone on-line. We are now preparing to publish a second edition, but we want to make it a much more participatory affair, and [...click title for full article...]
UNEP Joins the Water Footprint Network
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has joined the Water Footprint Network as its hundredth partner. Partners of the network subscribe to the need to have a globally shared water footprint standard. A shared standard is crucial given the rapidly growing interest in companies and governments to use water footprint assessments as a basis for [...click title for full article...]
Jornadas para el Establecimiento de la Red Mesoamericana de Economía Ecológica
An invitation to workshops for the Establishment of the Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics Invitación: Jornadas para el Establecimiento de la Red Mesoamericana de Economía Ecológica En el marco del III Congreso Iberoamericano Sobre Desarrollo y Ambiente (CISDA www.una.ac.cr/redibec-cisda) se acordó iniciar un proceso facilitador, por parte de varias organizaciones, para la creación de [...click title for full article...]
Premi Ramon Margalef d’Ecologia 2010
To see the conditions of the announcement of the Premi Ramon Margalef d’Ecologia 2010 click here. To propose a candidate, you may e-mail prm@gencat.cat or visit our website www.gencat.cat/premiramonmargalef/eng/.
Global Campaign to Protect and Restore Old Forests Gaining Traction
February 9, 2010 RELEASE: Global Campaign to Protect and Restore Old Forests Gaining Traction Campaigns to end industrial primary rainforest logging in Papua New Guinea and Madagascar based upon ecological science, and meant to end corruption and ecological harm By Earth’s Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI) CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org Ecological Internet’s [...click title for full article...]
Civil Society Engagement with Ecological EConomics
Civil Society Engagement with ECological EConomics (CEECEC) CEECEC is a European Commission FP7 funded project (Apr 2008-Oct 2010) coordinated by ICTA UAB that aims to enable civil society Organisations (CSOs) to engage in and lead collaborative research with ecological economists. Click here to read the latest news and here to access CSO case studies of [...click title for full article...]
What To Do When Reading a Blog
Many people look at a blog and wonder what all the “stuff” means. Lisa Olinda, owner of Olinda Services has written a series of blog articles detailing what the components of the blog are and the best way to utilize them. If you have any questions you can email her at lisa@olindaservices.com. Day One – [...click title for full article...]
