Photo credit: Stuck in Customs / Flickr. Creative Commons 2.0 license. “We live in an interconnected world”, the author argues. In Brief The idea that nothing exists in isolation−but only as part of a system−has long been embedded in...
The four largest cities that get their drinking water from the Colorado River are gearing up to pilot an innovative conservation scheme that pays farmers, industries and municipalities to reduce their use of the river’s water. The main aim...
Post Carbon Institute, Sierra Club, OVEC and AlterNet have partnered to show us what’s at stake in the fight against coal with a powerful slideshow of recent coal disasters (including the Freedom Industries chemical spill, the Duke Energy ash spill and Tuesday’s slurry...
The Gila River in southwestern New Mexico is an ecological gem, but is threatened by a proposed diversion. Photo by Sandra Postel The western United States was settled with the help of big dams and river diversions that delivered...
The legal problems of the sharing economy just got real. The latest lawsuits against “ride-sharing” companies Lyft and Über could be game changers. The plaintiffs are drivers who give rides to strangers for money, paying a portion of their earnings to...
You can take action to ban fracking on federal lands here. Photo Credit: Ecoflight As a Forest Supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s, I put a 15-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing in Montana’s Rocky...
By Cat Johnson, Shareable I’m sitting in a cafe in downtown Oakland, just up the block from a HUB coworking space and a stone’s throw from a BART station. The wooden tables are full and sharing them is the...
When we flip on a light, we rarely think about water. But electricity generation is the biggest user of water in the United States. Thermoelectric power plants alone use more than 200 billion gallons of water a day – about...
This is the final part of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, “Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems“. This installment shows the big problem we have with...
Michael Shuman – Ketnote Address on Local Investment from Robert Russell on Vimeo. Michael Shuman’s Keynote on Local Investment was presented on October 2, 2012 at the Hagerty Center, NMC. Note: Takes a minute to load