Blog 3 - UN Millenium Development Goals
"We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual. We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers; to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed. So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will help to achieve the Goals."
United Nations Secretary-General
| Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger Achieve Universal Primary Education Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Reduce Child Mortality Improve Maternal Health Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases Ensure Environmental Sustainability Develop a Global Partnership for Development |
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
These are songs (and CDs) that have been featured on Grinning Planet as "Songs for a Better Planet."
| "Don't Go Near the Water" - Beach Boys "Only A Dream" - Adrian Belew "Clear Blue Skies" - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young "Earth Day Every Day (Celebrate)" - John Denver "All the People" - Dyniss "The 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle)" - Jack Johnson "Big Yellow Taxi" - Amy Grant "My City Was Gone" - The Pretenders |
"If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings."
- L. Hunter Lovins and Amory B. Lovins
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
Green Cars“Modern technology, owes ecology
An apology.�
-Alan M. Eddison
"Environmentalists have long been fond of saying
that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it
is some ninety-three million miles away."
- Stephanie Mills
Energy Efficient
Sell Energy Saving Bulb Windmill Farm Solar Water Heater
Rechargeable Batteries Earth-Friendly PC