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Great news! We are delighted to announce that Chris and Judith Plant, co-owners of New Society Publishers have won the 2013 Island Trust Community Stewardship Award.  This award recognizes individuals and groups for programs or actions that have made a significant contribution toward the object of the Islands Trust. 

This year there were eight …

We announced in June that authors Dr. Mathis Wackernagel and Dr. William E. Rees had won one of the world's premier environmental awards, the Blue Planet Prize.  On Monday, November 5th, Japan’s Prince Akishino and the Asahi Glass Foundation presented the prize to the co-creators of the Ecological Footprint, and to Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, who was …

 The Asahi Glass Foundation has selected Drs. William E. Rees and Mathis Wackernagel co-authors of Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth  to receive this year's Blue Planet Prize, along with Thomas Lovejoy, conservation biologist.  The international environmental award, now in its 21st year, is awarded to individuals and …

Bob Willard, author of the newly released The New Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line - Tenth Anniversary Edition, has a lot to celebrate.  Last fall, he was inducted into the Sustainability Professionals Hall of Fame.  Now, his company, The Sustainability Advantage, has been listed in the top 10% of more …

Two NSP authors, Bob Willard and Karl Henrik Robert, are among the five inaugural members who will be inducted into the ISSP hall of Fame at the ISSP Conference 2011 in Portland on September 22-23. The criteria were  service, research, innovation, advancement of the case for sustainability, participation in the adoption of sustainability in …