The Global Road-Building Explosion is Shattering Nature
The bottom line is that if we’re smart and plan carefully, we can still increase food production and human equity across much of the world.
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The climate trials of the 21st century have begun
The question in these trials is straightforward: Do governments and corporations have an obligation to protect the habitability of the Earth’s climate for human populations?
How to Convince Your Neighbors Climate Change Is Real? Stop Calling Them Idiots, Says DeSmog Founder Jim Hoggan
Clean coal.” “Ethical oil.” How could fossil fuels that produce pollution which sickens, kills, and hospitalizes tens of thousands of Americans each year end up sounding so … desirable?
Testing a Different(iation) Approach to Permaculture Design Process – Part Two: An Example
Carrying on from the previous post, here we share an experimental example of permaculture design when conducted explicitly as a process of differentiating a pre-existing whole into parts.
Resilient Las Vegas?
The ability to band together to take collective action for the common good is a key to resilience in human systems.
Reflection on Journey to Earthland
Do we, as humankind, understand how dire our situation is, and how radical our responses must be?
Sustainable Activism: Managing Hope and Despair in Social Movements
In our own experience of movements for change from the 1970s onwards we’ve been struck by the way in which a failure to contain despair can lead to unrealistic hopes, built on a denial of and a flight from some difficult truths.
“People’s Hearing” Demands Oversight of FERC for Allegedly Rubber-stamping Pipeline and Gas Projects
Since 1977, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been quietly reviewing and authorizing liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals, interstate natural gas pipelines, and non-federal hydropower projects.
After Flint Failure, EPA Refocuses Federal Drinking Water Role
The lead contamination scandal that unraveled in Flint the last two years and the failure of local, state, and federal officials to address it brought drinking water safety to the forefront of U.S. public policy.
Investigating Environmental Racism
In Nova Scotia, minority and low-income communities are disproportionately located near degraded environments. An ongoing research project raises awareness of the issue, while also mobilizing affected residents to action.
Climate Science Communication: Trust begets Trust
Why are we failing at communicating the danger of climate change?
Water, History, and Finance Converge As Sioux Nation Mounts Storied Battle Over Oil Pipeline
Heavy snow and winter cold settled this month on thousands of Native Americans and their supporters encamped on the banks of the Cannonball River, some 30 miles south of Bismarck, North Dakota.