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Mr. Brune is an accountant who has built a record of success, first with Rainforest Action Network and now with the Sierra Club, of raising money from celebrities and foundations, without much ecological policy substance. His record is also one of unequivocally supporting "sustainable...
Dear Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, I am pleased to see your recent statements indicating the need for economic development to be environmentally sustainable. Yet, I am writing to respectfully express concerns with the lack of effective land-use planning laws in India, and to make som...
India is a thriving democratic nation with tremendous potential to achieve just, equitable, and ecologically sustainable national development that could last forever. Yet India is heading towards social and ecological collapse unless it stops burning coal and clearing its natural ecos...
Dear Mayor Mahon and Commissioners, I am writing to express grave concern with Avon's plans to again rebuild its boardwalk with endangered rainforest timbers. Surely you are aware of the science that Hurricane Sandy was enhanced by abrupt climate change, and that logging old-growth is...
On this and other bases, a new planetary boundary threshold is proposed: that 60% of terrestrial ecosystems must be maintained across scales with the boundary set at 66% as a precaution. It is concluded that ensuring natural ecosystems and their biogeochemical flows remain the conte...
Dear Cambodian Prime Minister Samdach Akaek Moha Sena Padei Decho Hun Sen, Before giving any approval to the Areng Valley hydropower dam, we respectfully urge you to please carefully reconsider this project and its many negative impacts. If the proposed 108 megawatt Cheay Areng Dam pr...
Dear Cambodian Prime Minister Samdach Akaek Moha Sena Padei Decho Hun Sen, Before giving any approval to the Areng Valley hydropower dam, we respectfully urge you to please carefully reconsider this project and its many negative impacts. If the proposed 108 megawatt Cheay Areng Dam pr...
Dear Prime Minister Julia Gillard, I am writing to express my support for your government's nomination of Tasmania's world class forests for listing as a World Heritage area, and to express my dismay over their continued destruction. Thank you for this recognition of the global signif...