Max Iacono

Strategies and policies for advancing the environmental agenda

Abstract. This post attempts to describe succinctly the relevant intellectual territory with respect to both macro and micro types of policies and strategies at both the national and the organizational levels. It also highlights similarities and differences between "policies" and "strategies". It does this to encourage those who are environmentally engaged to consider …

Can we trust the reporting of environmental issues by the mainstream media?

Among the various lessons we learned in 2012 there is also whether or not the so-called “mainstream media” really can be trusted to tell the truth about environmental issues. Or can it be trusted to do just the opposite, and in various diverse and difficult to detect ways?

Limits to Growth: An alternative history

In this post, Max Iacono examines an "alternative history" in which the 1972 Limits to Growth report would have included scenarios based on its own acceptance or rejection.