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Visualize Gasoline
Richard Heinberg May 10, 2012
Next time you find yourself in traffic, try this nifty thought exercise. Ignore the cars within your field of vision and imagine instead the contents of their fuel tanks. Visualize gasoline … >>
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The Power of a Radically Affordable Irrigation Pump
Sandra Postel Apr 19, 2012
One of the more transformative technologies ever developed for the world’s poor farmers is a water-lifting device called a treadle pump. It looks and operates much like a Stairmaster … >>
Changing the climate in our schools
Bill McKibben Apr 18, 2012
Maybe you've heard. We are facing a climate crisis that threatens life on our planet. Climate scientists are unequivocal: We are changing the world in deep, measurable, dangerous ways -- and the pace of this change will accelerate dramatically in the decades to come. ... >>
The Trouble with Money
Chris Martenson Apr 17, 2012
Recently I was asked by a high school teacher if I had any ideas about why students today seem so apathetic when it comes to engaging with the world around them. I waggishly responded, "Probably because they're smart." ... >>
Will Modern Phoenix Outlast the Prehistorical Hohokam?
Sandra Postel Apr 10, 2012
Darell Duppa, a late nineteenth century pioneer of the American Southwest, may barely warrant a historical footnote, but he left one memorable legacy: he named the capital city of the state … >>
Census and Experts Confirm Death of Sprawl in US
Warren Karlenzig Apr 10, 2012
We are simultaneously witnessing the decline of the economic sectors enabled by hypergrowth development: strip malls and massive shopping centers, SUVs and McMansions. The end of exurban population growth has been accompanied by steep economic decline in real estate value ... >>
Talking Happiness
Richard Heinberg Apr 5, 2012
I’m writing this on a plane, on my way home from four conferences on the “new economy.” Clearly there is rapidly growing interest in this subject, due in no small degree … >>
Bill McKibben: On May 5, join me in connecting the dots on the climate crisis
Bill McKibben Mar 26, 2012
Across the planet now we see ever more flooding, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked — the impacts we’re already witnessing from … >>
Reflections on a Thirsty Planet for World Water Day
Sandra Postel Mar 26, 2012
The Mahanadi River in Orissa, India, ebbs to a trickle during the dry season. Photo credit: James P. Blair. Water, I have learned, means different things to … >>
Fun with Trends
Richard Heinberg Mar 19, 2012
If current population trends continue . . . The population of the United States will increase to over 600 million by 2080, and in 2150 it will equal China’s present size. … >>
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