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5th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning [1]

The Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning in the UK builds upon a series that started in 2003 in Skiathos (Greece) and evolved to another three conferences in Bologna (2005), the Algarve (2007) and Cyprus (2009). The conference addresses the subject of regional development in an integrated way as well as in accordance with the principles of sustainability.

First International Conference on Food and Environment - The Quest for a Sustainable Future [2]

The First International Conference on Food and the Environment in the UK will focus on a variety of issues affecting food production and distribution including those related to natural and anthropogenic causes. The conference will emphasise the effects of modern food production processes and how they can affect human health.

Enviros: Cut Ship Speeds To Save West Coast Whales [3]

"A 10-knot limit off the West Coast could prevent deaths, advocates tells the U.S. Department of Commerce. Shippers oppose the limits."

Source: LA Times [4], 06/07/2011

"Wind Power Turbines in Altamont Pass Threaten Protected Birds" [5]

"Scores of golden eagles have been killed after striking the thousands of wind turbines in the Bay Area, raising questions about California's move toward alternative power."

Source: LA Times [6], 06/07/2011

"Charting a Planet's Changing Rhythms, Through a Physician's Eyes" [7]

Paul Epstein started his career as a physician caring for the poor in Mozambique and Boston. In a new book, the Associate director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and Global Environment connects the dots between climate change and its global impacts. They range from cholera outbreaks in Africa and plankton blooms in the Caribbean ... to parasites devastating East Coast oysters.

Source: Daily Climate [8], 06/07/2011

Nearly 200 Communities Get $76 Million in EPA Brownfields Grants [9]

"Nearly 200 communities across the United States have been awarded new federal grants to clean up old contaminated industrial sites and transform them into new, job-creating developments."

Source: EHN [10], 06/07/2011

"Missouri River Dams to Release Historic Rush of Water" [11]

"Releases from six Missouri River reservoirs, already at historic levels, will be increased again this month, say water managers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."

Source: ENS [12], 06/07/2011

"As Decision on Grand Canyon Mining Nears, Sides Line Up" [13]

"A moratorium on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon expires in six weeks, and the Interior Department is under pressure from conservation groups and mining companies over what to do about it."

Source: McClatchy [14], 06/07/2011

"Supreme Court Declines to Take GE Challenge of Superfund" [15]

"The Supreme Court decided [Monday] not to take up General Electric Co.'s legal campaign over how U.S. EPA exercises its authority to order companies to clean up hazardous waste sites."

Source: Greenwire [16], 06/07/2011

"World Needs Refugee Re-Think For Climate Victims: U.N." [17]

"The world must invent new ways to protect people driven from their homes by climate change without copying safeguards for those uprooted by wars or persecution, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday."

Source: Reuters [18], 06/07/2011

5th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning [1]

First International Conference on Food and Environment - The Quest for a Sustainable Future [2]

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