The Raramuri - indigenous people of northwestern Mexico - believe that all living beings are guides to us, humans. One Raramuri environmental leader explains. ...

Cultivating the indigenous brown cotton has brought economic empowerment to the women of Adaklu in Ghana and their families. ...

On the concluding day of the Rio+20 Sustainability Conference, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Prime Minister of Denmark, along with other female Heads of State, signed a 'call to action' that urged governments, civil society and the private sector to prioritise gender equality and women’s empowerment in the sustainable development agenda. ...

Rio+20 could have been the conference that changed lead countries to powerful sustainable development commitments. But it was not. ...

Lady Jackson/Barbara Ward (1914-1981 ) was a pioneer  of today’s well known and most important concept: "Sustainable Development”. She was the first who enlightened and seeded this idea to the public world in its context known today. Barbara Mary Ward (1914 – 1981), in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged W ...

Brazil, the host country of the Rio+20 Summit, is suggesting essential changes in the world and promoting sustainable development. But in real politics it is doing the exact opposite. ...

A sequel of four articles by Anna Zhou, Diêgo Lôbo and Pabitra Mukhopadhyay. In the first part the authors discuss the multidimensional debates in the run up to Rio+20 and possibility of BRICS role in finding a way through the confusion. ...

One can see a buzz of activities in the Indian Mountains, expectations soaring, for a possible great leap towards right directions and other Hindu Kush Himalayan countries are watching the progress with great interest. NGOs from India, for the first time are placing their own agenda and demanding the long awaited leadership in terms of knowledge, idea and action. ...

One of the ideas driving ThinkBrigade is the need to find new collaborative ways to communicate complex, global events that elude compression into a simple linear narrative; ways to see the eddying structures in the stream and immediate events in their wider systemic context. News cartography – the creation of dynamic, interactive, collaboratively editable and shareable maps of the stories – is one of the m ...