Two decades after the Brundtland Commission's Report "Our Common Future" adopted the concept of 'sustainable development', this book provides a renewal of the concept exploring the potential for new practices and fields for those involved in sustainability activity. The book addresses a number of themes concerning firstly, the provision of a "next generation perspective", which was a central, and still unresolved, notion of the original Brundtland definition and, secondly the provision of new milestones for policy and research that can expand the discussion on this second generation concept on sustainability. The material dealt with in the book offers a wide variety of perspectives on sustainability and reflects the importance of interdisciplinary and transdiciplinary work in the field. Suggesting targets for future analytical and political efforts in achieving global sustainability, this book offers new analytical opportunities for holistic politics and research at a general and sector level.

The current study explored the utility of a workshop for early childhood educators on the topic of patriotic symbols. Fifteen first and second year graduate students from the Master of Arts in Early Childhood Education program at California State University, Northridge participated with a pre and post-workshop test. Overall, the participants had a wide range of ideas about national symbols in the pre-test, citing values and beliefs of the home country in addition to birds, flowers, and the flag. The participants also cited the role of history and geography as interwoven into patriotic symbols. Results in the post-test revealed that participants tended to focus on the specifics from the workshop itself, including a strong emphasis on the American flag. Overall, the workshop was rated very useful, with a score of 4.5 out of 5 (5= excellent). The content of the workshop earned 4.5, slide quality earned 4.3, presenter quality was rated 4.7, and the overall rating earned a 4.5.

In an America ravaged by atomic warfare, nomads spend their days scavenging for scrap in a blasted landscape. That's how ex-soldier Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) comes into possession of some spare android parts. He buys them as a present for his artist girlfriend, Jill (Stacey Travis), who plans to put them in a sculpture. What they don't know is that the pieces come from a new kind of android that is capable of reassembling itself -- and is programmed to kill.

This report lays out six steps for revitalizing U.S. democracy promotion efforts and reforming the U.S. foreign assistance bureaucracy: 1) The first and most crucial step is to raise the profile of international development as an objective of U.S. foreign policy. 2) Sharper delineations should be made between strategic assistance, development and democratization aid, and humanitarian, public health, and disaster relief assistance. 3) An increasing percentage of U.S. development assistance should be conditioned on the criteria currently utilized by the Millennium Challenge Corporation. 4) The National Endowment for Democracy must continue to serve as a focal point for U.S. democracy assistance to non-state actors. 5) A position of foreign assistance coordinator should be created in each U.S. embassy. 6) U.S. diplomatic efforts should be more clearly geared toward protecting non-state actors and ensuring that foreign countries uphold, support, and do not interfere with the work of civil society organizations.

A state-of-the-art remake of the classic William Castle horror film about a family that inherits a spectacular old house from an eccentric uncle. There's just one problem: the house seems to have a dangerous agenda all its own. Trapped in their new home by strangely shifting walls, the family encounters powerful and vengeful entities that threaten to annihilate anyone in their path.

Development that is sustainable requires an operational, efficient and safe transportation system fueled by clean, low carbon, secure and affordable energy. The energy used in road passenger transport enables social and economic development and is the target of interventions to fight pressing urban environmental problems, energy security concerns and dangerous climate change. This review explores a systematic approach to describe interactions documented in the literature, between policies targeting energy use in road passenger transport to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable development goals. Essential, uncertain and limited interactions are mapped out as a result, their overview indicates that a full reconciliation between these policies and sustainability goals is not always attainable. The careful alignment and contextual examination of interactions between measures and goals as exemplified in this approach can help inform practical transport energy policy that better match an agenda for sustainable development.

Global transportation energy use is steeply rising, mainly as a result of increasing population and economic activity. Petroleum fuels remain the dominant energy source, reflecting advantages such as high energy density, low cost, and market availability. The movement of people and freight makes a major contribution to economic development and social well-being, but it also negatively impacts climate change, air quality, health, social cohesion, and safety. Following a review published 20 years ago in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources (then named the Annual Review of Energy and the Environment) by Lee Schipper, we examine current trends and potential futures, revising several major global transport/energy reports. There are significant opportunities to slow travel growth and improve efficiency. Alternatives to petroleum exist but have different characteristics in terms of availability, cost, distribution, infrastructure, storage, and public acceptability. The transition to low-carbon equitable and sustainable transport will take time but can be fostered by numerous short- and medium-term strategies that would benefit energy security, health, productivity, and sustainability.