Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  Earth Day Message from SUNx Brussels / Malta 20 th April 2026   SUNx Malta – Strong Universal Network Releases New “Symphony of Change” Dodo4Kids video to Celebrate Earth Day 2026   Composed and sung by Platinum Award winning artist Alston Koch, this catchy 4-minute video features our resurrected Dodo teaching a group of kids to help with Ocean Clean up.   It is also part of the Strong Earth Festival on 29 th April (Earth Day + 7) celebrating the enormous contribution of the late Maurice Strong to protection of our planet – including organising the Stockholm 1972 and Rio 1992 Earth Summits, leading to the Conventions on Climate Change, on Biodiversity and the SDG’s: as well as launching the Earth Charter in 2000 with Mikhael Gorbachev.   Professor Geoffrey Lipman President of SUN x Malta said “It’s always a pleasure to produce music with Alston for the good of our planet. And this time to incorporate our Dodo4Kids in the video urging the n...

The following s even podcast episodes are adapted from the book "Only One Earth" by Felix Dodds, Maurice Strong (the father of sustainable development), and Michael Strauss .   The podcasts will cover the development of first environment and then sustainable development internationally from the 1960s to the Rio+20 Summit in 2012. Episode 1: The Road to Stockholm: The Birth of Global EnvironmentAction . Join us as we journey through the turbulent 1960s, a decade of civil rights, student activism, and the emergence of the modern environmental movement. From Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to the first Earth Day and the 1972 Stockholm Conference, this episode explores the pivotal moments that shaped global environmental consciousness. Featuring insights from "Only One Earth" by Felix Dodds, Maurice Strong, and Michael Strauss, we explore the legacy of activism that continues to shape sustainability efforts today. "At a time of mounting threats to the sustainabi...

Guest blog by the secretariat of  he  Tourism Panel on Climate  Change A stocktake of tourism-related climate science, indicators of sector climate risk, and progress on climate action is a key first deliverable for the Tourism Panel on Climate Change (TPCC) in 2023. The TPCC has announced this ahead of Earth Day this Saturday, April 22. The first TPCC Stocktake will be the basis for future science analysis. Sixty-six leading climate scientists and tourism experts from around the world are contributing to the Stocktake. They are also contributing to the TPCC’s mission to support tourism’s transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development, in line with Paris Climate Agreement targets. The TPCC will formally present its first Stocktake in November at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates. Researchers who are not already among the TPCC’s 66 scientists and experts will have an opportunity to...