Can we conserve our way out of a water crisis?

Around the Water Cooler welcomes Doug Bennett, the water conservation manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and chair of the 2009 WaterSmart Innovations Conference, about the future of our drinking water. http://budurl.com/wc1104

The Government of India as a part of its state planning under the eleventh plan is promoting Small and Medium Enterprise to enhance the rural income and ensure rural development. National Afforestation and Eco-development Board as a working body of Ministry… Continue

http://www.usief.org.in/Scripts/ForIndianNationalsForProfessionalsFulbright-NehruEnvironmentalLeadershipProgram(FNELP).aspx


The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) invites applications from interested mid-level Indian environment professionals in public/private sector or non-governmental organizations for the Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leadership Program (FNELP) fellowships. The program will combine short-term practical training/internship with opportunities for… Continue

Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments


"In this report, PERI Co-Director Robert Pollin and Assistant Research Professor Jeannette Wicks-Lim provide a snapshot of the kinds of jobs are needed to build a green economy in the United States. They focus on six key strategies for attacking global warming and highlight some of the major “green jobs” associated with each of these approaches."....

To download the report , go to… Continue

Please find attached an invitation to a symposium on Decentralization, Power and Tenure Rights of Forest-Dependent People, to be held in Gujarat, India on 27-28 October 2009.



In addition, we encourage you to submit paper presentation. The call for abstracts is open until 10 April 2009. Kindly check the symposium details at www.nmsadguru.org/symposiumdecentralization2009.pdf



The aim of the symposium is to share recent research experiences of participants and to review state-of-the-art appro… Continue

Please find below information on the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program being circulated:
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I'm pleased to announce the 9th year of the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program, held for the past eight years at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Beahrs ELP links the complex local and global environmental challenges of practitioners and decision-makers around the world with interdisciplinary perspectives in environmenta… Continue

Abstract of technical paper presented during 4th International Health, Safety, Environment and Loss Prevention Professional Development Conference at Kuwait in April 2007.

In recent years, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has faced immense criticism as it is project specific and does not influence macro-economic and sector policies, strategic decision-making and development planning. It is considered to be inefficient tool for assessing the cumulative impacts of larger projects at a… Continue

Subject: BNHS International Conference, 'Conserving Nature in a Globalizing India'

Date: 17-19 February 2009; Venue: J. N. Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


Dear Friends,

The conservation of nature faces its greatest ever challenges in an increasingly globalised world, unsustainable paths of 'development', climate change, the expansion of humans to every corner of earth, conflicts over natural resources, and the uncontrolled spread of toxics and exotics. In the face of… Continue

Climate Change & Environmental Core Competency Cell (C2-E-C3), IIFM is going to organize IIFM Climate Change Conference - Business & Sustainable Development on February 21-22, 2009.

The objective is to learn from the leaders, deliberate and debate how Business logic has evolved with Climate Change risks looming large at the backdrop of development, how climate sensitivity of business and economy can be managed, how business can lead to Sustainable development and what is t… Continue

Dear all,

You are kindly invited to attend and, if possible, to contribute an oral presentation or a poster to the symposium "Satellite Telemetry in Ornithology" during the 7th Conference of the European Ornithologists' Union 2009 to be held at the University of Zurich, Switzerland from 21 - 26 August 2009.

(For further details see the texts below).

Main conference website: http://www.eou2009.ch/

List of symposia and details: http://www.ucc.ie/en/eou2009/Symposia/

Call for contributions:
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