Russell B. Stevenson, Jr.
Peace X Peace Board Member
USA
“They told him, ‘Yes, we ignore the rule,’ and he said, ‘We will follow it from now on.’ ”
Russ Stevenson is an active member of the Peace X Peace Board of Directors. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Chesapeake Legal Alliance, working to preserve the largest estuary in the United States and the 3,600 species it contains. Click this link for an overview of the Chesapeake Bay’s significance and its environmental challenges.
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As the time neared for me to retire …

Claire Charamnac and Renata Moniaga
Georgetown University, United States
“There are ways for Georgetown students to be proactive in combating the global water crisis. First, we can turn off the tap when we brush our teeth or shave our faces (or legs). Second, we can spread the word. The more people who are aware of the crisis, and the simple ways that they can help alleviate it, the bigger an impact our efforts will have.”
Odorless, colorless and tasteless, water is the basic building …

Dawn Winston
United States
Google runs ads next to emails using keywords from the email itself. On the side of one email I recently received ran this ad: “It’s gotten so bad that the UN has forecast two thirds of the world’s population will live in areas that are water-stressed by 2030. Hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent to avoid this crisis. And savvy investors will make a fortune.”
The water crisis is here. It is an essential problem to solve, not an opportunity to profit. Currently 0.63% of …

Yi Wang
China
“People are still trying to understand the term ‘low-carbon,’ the definition of ‘green technology.’ “
I am very impressed by my research results about green jobs in China. I have come to the conclusion that there are more and more young Chinese people concerned about our environment on earth and investing their careers in this green peace movement. I first searched by two keywords, “Green life” and “low carbon life,” which led me to different websites such as www.greenmark.org.tw (Taiwan), www.greenmark.org.tw (Taiwan), http://www.club-o.org/  (Hong Kong), http://www.lvsei.com/ (Mainland China), and news …