Living Green

Early someone mentioned about being green, slowing I am making the transition to be GREEN! National Geographic posted some easy how to methods and ways to become green.

http://www.thegreenguide.com/

Teachers' Corner

This site has links to information about climate change, world poverty, human rights and other global awareness issues.

http://www.teacherscorner.org/

Global Awareness for educators

This website has information about global awareness curriculum and other information for educators.

http://www.facingthefuture.org/

Walmart goes for a makeover

http://www.naturalstep.org/en/canada/walmarts-green-business-summit-vancouver This article at The Natural Step website says Walmart is going green in a big way and can bring real change world wide by setting higher standards for production.

Measuring Gross National Happiness

http://www.sightline.org/research/sust_toolkit/solutions/measure_happiness

Yes! Some body else is catching onto this. Here is a link to actual research supporting this idea.

ARTICLE: "Henoko, Okinawa: Inside the Sit-In"

"Henoko, Okinawa: Inside the Sit-In" is an article published in The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (8-1-10, February 22, 2010) by Yumiko Kikuno with an introduction by Satoko Norimatsu.

The authors describe their visit to:

"Tent Village," where activists were sitting in to protest against the government's plan to build a new US Marine Corps airbase as a "replacement facility" of Futenma Air Station.

For the full article, see: http://www.japanfocus.org/-Kikuno-Yumiko/3306

Yumiko Kikuno is Editor of “U-Yu-Yu,” a community journal based in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, (Japan) and works for the city’s community revitalization project.

Satoko Norimatsu leads various peace initiatives in Vancouver, BC (Canada) and beyond, as Director of Peace Philosophy Centre and Vancouver Save Article 9. She is a featured speaker at various events in The Global Forum on the Future of Nuclear Weapons.

WEBCASTS: Feb 23 & Mar 2: International Studies Symposium Speakers

Webster University’s Center for International Education (CIE)
Presents
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER SERIES
Live Global Interactive Webcast Events

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Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010

What in the World is: The Global Forum on the Future of Nuclear Weapons?

DR. ROY TAMASHIRO,
Professor, Multidisciplinary Studies, Webster University
12 – 1:15 pm (CST) | UTC / GMT: 18:00 – 19:15

WEBCAST AT: http://eagle.webster.edu/webcast
ON CAMPUS AT: SVER 101, Webster University—St. Louis

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Japan: Living with the
‘Peace Constitution’ for 63 Years

SATOKO NORIMATSU
Director, Peace Philosophy Centre, Vancouver, BC, CANADA
12 – 1:15 pm (CST) | UTC /GMT 18:00 – 19:15

WEBCAST AT: http://eagle.webster.edu/webcast
ON CAMPUS AT: Emerson Library Conference Room, Webster U.—St. Louis

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Both events are part of
The Global Forum on the Future of Nuclear Weapons:
See http://eagle.webster.edu/TheGlobalFourm

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