The United Nations proclaimed 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity, and people all over the world are working to safeguard this irreplaceable natural wealth and reduce biodiversity loss. This is vital for current and future human wellbeing. We need to do more. Now is the time to act. The International Year of Biodiversity is a unique opportunity to increase understanding of the vital role that biodiversity plays in sustaining life on Earth.

From September 5-8, 2010, the Department of Economic and Social Psychology of the University of Cologne is going to organize the joint conference of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) and the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE).

The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) invites once again young designers, e-content creators, writers, journalists and bloggers from around the world to enter their online-projects in an international multimedia competition: Using Internet and Mobiles to put the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into Action! The WSYA Winners Events will be orchestrated as a four-day experience from September 18-22, 2010 with workshops, exhibitions, project presentations and interactive sessions.

This once a year occurrence represents United Planet's mission of fostering mutual understanding, improving the quality of life for everyone, and creating harmony among the people of the world. We created United Planet Day to celebrate this special occasion.

This conference will highlight and develop concrete initiatives that will assist developing and rapidly urbanizing countries in their work towards poverty eradication and achieving the millennium development goals and how national development agencies, international financing institutions and NGO’s can contribute by integrating environmental concerns into their practice. The conference will take place in Yaounde, Cameroon.

You are invited to join us for the 23rd Midwest ECO Conference, hosted by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, IL, October 9 & 10, 2010. This conference is an annual event planned by Community Psychology students for students, faculty, and others interested in community psychology and social ecological issues. This will be a venue to share research, network, and discuss our mutual interests.

On 10/10/10, the Global Work Party, we'll start transforming our communities from the ground up. Through local climate action projects, we'll make our leaders wake up and lead on the climate crisis. It's a plan that may well break the logjam and get us moving.

MCTS / RSC Conference
Middelburg, Netherlands, October 27-30, 2010
This conference seeks to explore both the past and the future of the transatlantic relationship by using the election of President Obama as a potential turning point in North American-European relations.
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: May 1, 2010

The Association for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association invite proposals for our joint conference “Ethnicity, Governance and Social Justice: Linking Canada and the world” November 5-6, 2010, in Toronto, Canada. Conference organizers welcome proposals for papers, sessions, panels, roundtables, and poster presentations that address the topics of ethnicity, immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism in Canada, particularly in relation to social justice and governance.

We invite you to submit papers to the fourth Knowledge Globalization Conference, to be held in Boston in Nov. 2010. The theme for this conference is sustainable transformation through global knowledge sharing and empowerment by attainment of social, political, economic and ethical goals.