Now the Good News: UN Millennium Goals Update

Here’s a brilliant interactive graph of progress on the eight UN millennium goals. Are we on track for 2015? In the 2008 MDG report, UN Sec Gen Ban Ki-Moon says “There is no question we can achieve the over-arching goal: we can put an end to poverty.”
Have a look at the report as it makes [...]

Pachamama Alliance: Ecuador grants rights to nature

What rights does nature have? In 1948, the UN defined our rights as humans. Sixty years later, in 2008, Ecuador is the first country to give nature rights in their constitution. The Pachamama Alliance is behind the change. Bill and Lynne Twist (author of ‘The Soul of Money’) founded Pachamama to support the Achuar people [...]