Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
-Mary Anne Radmacher
Yale University researchers, working in conjunction with the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have recently released the latest
Environmental Sustainability Index Report (
www.yale.edu/esi). In this report 146 nations of the world are ranked in terms of 75 environmental measures such as maintaining clean air and water, limiting emission of greenhouse gases, and cooperating with international environmental efforts. Here are the top performing nations on this year’s list...
- Finland
- Norway
- Uruguay
- Sweden
- Iceland
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Guyana
- Argentina
- Austria
- Brazil
- Gabon
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Latvia
Note: On this list, the United States ranked 45th.
One of the most successful projects of the World Forum Foundation is the Nature Action Collaborative for Children (NACC). To learn more about the work of the NACC and to see how you can participate, go to
www.worldforumfoundation.org/nature. If you sign up today to become a member of NACC (for free), you will be given a two week opportunity to sign up for the 2008 Working Forum on Nature Education before open registration begins.
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Once again the United States is at the bottom of the list! We better wake up real soon, or there'll be no future for our children and grandchildren.
United States
Once again the United States is at the bottom of the list! We better wake up real soon, or there'll be no future for our children and grandchildren.
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