How cities can add accessible green space in a post-coronavirus world

Repost from: The Conversation. Published: June 11, 2020 3.40pm EDT By: Ryan Plummer, Professor, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; Darby McGrath, Adjunct professor, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; and Sivajanani Sivarajah, Research Associate, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson…

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[New publication] “Theories and concepts influencing sustainable community development: introducing the concept of community productivity”

By Maria Spiliotopoulou and Mark Roseland Chapter 20 of the Research Handbook on Community Development, edited by Rhonda Phillips, Eric Trevan and Patsy Kraeger, and published in 2020 by Edward Elgar Publishing. Full text of our chapter is available online…

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Investors, consumers and workers are changing capitalism for the better by demanding companies behave more responsibly

Repost from: The Conversation, July 24, 2019 7.38am EDT Updated August 19, 2019 3.50pm EDT By Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor of Practice, Nonprofit Organizations; Social & Environmental Enterprises, University of Massachusetts Amherst Capitalism’s days may be numbered – at least judging…

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‘There are no excuses left’: why climate science deniers are running out of rope

Guardian environment correspondent Fiona Harvey recalls being heckled at the House of Commons and explains how attitudes to climate have shifted in 10 years From https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/17/climate-science-deniers-environment-warning Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent Published on Thu 17 Oct 2019 12.02 BST A crack…

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