SUSTAINABILITY: OUR CHALLENGE, OUR FUTURE Sustainability does not only refer to maintaining environmental balance and renewal. Sustainability encapsulates three facets of life: the environment, society and the economy. We live our lives in the overlaps and intersections of these facets, and our actions and attitudes help shape them. Their changing shapes in turn affect the [...]
- By Christopher Baan
- Filed under: Actuality, Climate & Energy, Developing Countries, Earth & Environment, Globalization & Global Culture, Human Rights, Photography & journalism, Politics & International Relations, Society, Sustainable Development, World
‘If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world’ Wim Wenders Wim Wenders’ words have perhaps never been more relevant to a movie than in the case of Home. Following directly on from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home is, of course, a film with a message that sets [...]
(published in NRC: 14/3/2009) – in Dutch Geachte minister-president Balkenende, De kredietcrisis leidt tot een noodzaak aan nieuwe investeringen, die een in het slop rakende economie van de ondergang moeten redden – daar bestaat momenteel veel consensus over. Echter, over waarin wij als samenleving moeten investeren is veel debat. Als vertegenwoordigers van de jongere generatie – [...]
Today, students are playing crucial roles in opposition movements throughout the world, fighting for democracy and the implementation of human rights. Though they often are the first ones to climb the barricades, sadly they are also the first ones to be forgotten. The purpose of the Student Peace Prize is to make their voices heard, [...]
A bright New Year! Coming soon: • the year 2008 in review from a young internationalist perspective • the best – and worst – list of 2008 • a brief preview of the possible, probable and impossible of 2009 In the mean time, take a look at this wow! video (by Famous). Thank you anothercompany [...]
Category: Actuality