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Dilemma and Denial
Richard Heinberg Oct 08, 2009 7 comments
A couple of weeks ago Jerry Mander and I were discussing the best word to use in the heading for the back cover copy of a new short book being co-published by International Forum on … >>
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Water for Life
Sandra Postel Oct 07, 2009
The phrase “water scarcity” now seems to roll off the tongues of corporate executives as often as it does those of environmental leaders. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, … >>
Our Evanescent Culture and the Awesome Duty of Librarians
Richard Heinberg Oct 07, 2009 17 comments
How secure is our civilization’s accumulated knowledge? It is a question that, in a fundamental sense, transcends many life-and-death concerns (threats of sickness, natural disaster, or … >>
A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth
Bill McKibben Oct 06, 2009 5 comments
[Excerpt] It has been more than 30 years since a groundbreaking book predicted that if growth continued unchecked, the Earth’s ecological systems would be overwhelmed within a century. The … >>
To Speak a Word for Nature
Stephanie Mills Oct 02, 2009
Transcript of address delivered at the Mills College Convocation President Holmgren, trustees, learned faculty, members of the Mills community, my fellow alumnae, and most importantly members … >>
People, Let's Get Our Carbon Down
Bill McKibben Sep 23, 2009
[Excerpt] Here's a question whose answer might surprise you: what American songwriter penned the most-listened-to piece of environmental protest music of all time? Somebody with an acoustic … >>
Why I Chose to Be Childless
Stephanie Mills Sep 22, 2009
[Excerpt] A few years ago my writers' group, which happened to consist of six non-mothers (we dubbed it the Child-free Ladies’ Mind Workers Union Local #1), got into a discussion of our … >>
The Thermodynamics of Local Foods
Jason Bradford Sep 16, 2009
"No phosphorus, no thought." - Frederick Soddy Books, blogs, and articles about local foods have been popping up with high frequency recently. I am not going to get into … >>
Where are New Green Cities and How Can They Curb Asian Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Warren Karlenzig Sep 16, 2009 2 comments
Teaser: In my previous post, I highlighted how growing Asian urbanization is expected to contribute more than half of the world's growth in greenhouse gases over the next 20 years... … >>
The Future Is All About Resilience
Asher Miller Sep 11, 2009 5 comments
This is a presentation, complete with speakers notes, which I gave recently. The presentation sets out Transition Towns as a response to the converging crises in the economy, energy and the … >>
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