The UN meets every year to try and reach a consensus on how to beat back some of the biggest threats, Svenningsen said, but member countries are stuck in doing things the way they want in their ...

In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, we’re bringing you a special episode this week, recorded from our 2023 MOTHER EARTH NEWS Fair in Lawrence, Kansas. Six folks joined editor Jessica ...

There is a economic paradigm that not focuses solely on how we collectively generate wealth but also on the ways in which we do so.

Sustainable development is how we must live today if we want a better tomorrow, by meeting present needs without compromising the chances of future generations to meet their needs. The survival of our ...

Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...

An hour without any artificial light seems impossible, right? But do you know that every year globally Earth Hour is celebrated on March 22 to encourage people to turn off the non-essential lights for ...

Residents can get ideas on how to protect the environment without leaving town at the fourth annual Ramona Earth Day Festival. The local version of the international Earth Day celebrations will be ...

Encouraging development has been on the agenda of the United Nations for decades. Pointing to the United Nations Charter, which expresses the determination to “promote social progress and better ...

The first Earth Day in 1970 is credited with mobilizing the U.S. environmental movement and contributing to the passage of important environmental legislation that led to the creation of the ...

University of Iowa graduate student Emma Davis is one of two students enrolled in the UI’s Master of Science in Sustainability Development program. While she will be able to finish her studies, she ...