Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Canada: We’re the fattest nation of them all
Bob Dylan’s new ad for SUVs
Higher metal prices make theft attractive
Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids’ bodies
Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean
Beginning tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT, CNN will air a two-part documentary that takes viewers to the front lines of environmental change. It focuses on four main issues: climate change, deforestation, species loss, and overpopulation. The four-hour documentary was filmed across four continents and 13 countries. (Check local schedule)
Comparing What a Way to Go with The 11th Hour
Stop calling me a “doomer”
Desire and the green cure (consumerism)
A strange feeling as a way of life
Can we apply the elements of the Systems Engineering process to create a constitution that ensures a sustainable and open community?
It has been a hard lesson: rational explanations of threats such as peak oil and climate change can only get one so far. People in any group or community adopt ideas at different paces based on their orientation toward change.
Are boys an endangered species?
Mother fears ‘stinky neighborhood’ caused son’s cancer
Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls: study
China’s surplus of sons: Geopolitical time bomb
Harbor seals may help determine effect of eating toxic fish
Pilot points to airline policy of wasting fuel
Bicycling for transportation pumps money into local economies
After cyclist’s death, Portland aims for safety
The dangers of autobesity
UK road-pricing plans ‘to be shelved’
Kunstler: The casino syndrome
Why money doesn’t buy happiness
Why are Americans so fearful?
Book Review: How to Build a Village
Seattle’s recycling success
Portland gives bike rentals a spin
Most efforts to devise new social and economic arrangements for the aftermath of peak oil attempt to make the transition to sustainability in a single leap. In the future of slow decline we most likely face, a different strategy may be more useful.
Safe streets: Not pedaling can kill you
Evolution of a bicycle friendly community- Davis
Big cities try to ease way for bicyclists
Japan eyes robots to support aging population
Family planning, population and global warming
Debunking third-world myths
American men and women unhappiest at ages 49 and 45
