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Sustainability Is Not as New an Idea as You Might Think—It’s More Than 300 Years Old

August 31, 2023 by Erika Schelby

Modern sustainability evolved from forest management of the 18th century, and its ancient roots go back even further. Could it help with today’s climate crisis and lumber shortage?

Categories Environment, Environment featured Tags ecological sustainability, managed woodlands Leave a comment

Is Wastewater an Answer for Adapting to Climate Change?

August 30, 2023 by Frederick Clayton

Water pressures like droughts are intensifying due to global warming and population growth. Treating wastewater is a powerful solution, finally gaining more public support.

Categories Environment, Environment featured, Food & Water Tags building resilient food and water systems, potable water reuse, wastewater treatment Leave a comment

The Emerging Human Transformation Shaping a Habitable Future for Life on Earth

August 24, 2023 by Geoffrey Holland

Humanity can and must come together to embrace a new planetary-scale, cultural direction, a gender-equal, transformative cultural direction in which we all commit ourselves by the need to protect the natural world we all depend on.

Categories Environment, Environment featured, Society Tags Earth Systems Treaty 4 Comments

Movie review: The Lake

August 24, 2023August 23, 2023 by Frank Kaminski

The Lake is a big-budget Thai eco-monster movie in which giant amphibious lake creatures rampage through a town in rural northeastern Thailand.

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‘Historic and Wonderful’: Ecuadorians Reject Oil Drilling in Precious Amazon Region

August 22, 2023 by Jake Johnson

Ecuadorians voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject oil drilling in a section of Yasuní National Park, the most biodiverse area of the imperiled Amazon rainforest.

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There are No Gaian Teachers, Only Gaia

August 21, 2023 by Erik Assadourian

Every sip of water, every breath of air, every morsel of food, and every time my heart beats. Gaia is within and around me. Who better to learn from than that?

Categories Environment, Environment featured Tags connection to nature, Gaia, interbeing, more-than-human world, spirituality Leave a comment

Ecological Cliff Edge

August 21, 2023 by Tom Murphy

In 1800, every human on the planet had a corresponding 80 kg of mammal mass in the wild. Wild land mammals outweighed humans in an 80:50 ratio. Today, each human on the planet can only point to 2.5 kg of wild mammal mass as their “own.

Categories Environment, Environment featured Tags sixth great extinction 13 Comments

A Long Way to Venus

August 18, 2023 by Ben Shread-Hewitt

We may not end up like Venus, but we are already at the brink of a hot, unstable world well beyond our ability to cope as a civilization.

Categories Environment, Environment featured Tags climate change responses, environmental effects of climate change 1 Comment

Collapse 2.0

August 18, 2023 by Michael Klare

Not only does the collapse of modern industrial civilization appear ever more likely, but the process already seems underway.

Categories Environment, Environment featured, Society Tags collapse of industrial civilization 3 Comments

The Inflation Reduction Act: Standing at a Double-cross Roads

August 17, 2023 by Joel Stronberg

Biden has consistently mentioned in his roadshow presentations that many—if not most—people probably don’t understand the peculiarly named act’s relationship to combatting climate change and expanding the domestic economy.

Categories Energy, Environment, Environment featured Tags American environmental policy, American politics, Inflation Reduction Act 6 Comments

Walking in an Oven World

August 16, 2023 by Frida Berrigan

Given the giant impression — think major meteor-sized explosion — we humans have made on Planet Earth, could we try something else?

Categories Environment, Environment featured, Society Tags climate change responses, powering down 2 Comments

The Hubris of Plutocrats: They Can’t Escape the Heat That’s Coming

August 16, 2023 by Stan Cox

The only way that we humans can live within nature’s resource restraints and ecological boundaries is to redirect our economies toward meeting all people’s basic needs, and away from producing material overabundance.

Categories Environment, Environment featured, Society 4 Comments
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