Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
For 40 years, Community Solution has been advocating a return from big cities and sprawling suburbs to small, rural communities. In the last three years, the group has focused on how peak oil is going to force America to decentralize whether we like it or not.
Fundamentalist Christians are mounting an effort to end the use of all contraceptives while ecologists warn that we are headed for disaster as Earth’s life support systems crack under the weight of our numbers.
Dr Paul Roth explores some of the general principles that might combine to form a sustainable and ethical health care system.
The day that we begin living beyond our ecological means is creeping ever earlier in the year as human consumption grows.
GE develops hybrid lightbulb
Eco-mags go high gloss
West Coast Green – building is key
The language of green is universal…or is it?
In the battle to be green, the human factor works wonders
Sooner or later America will lose its ability to influence the people and events in the Middle East, and at the same time we will probably lose access to the oil of the region.
In Teeming India, Water Crisis Means Dry Pipes and Foul Sludge
India Digs Deeper, but Wells Are Drying Up
Often Parched, India Struggles to Tap the Monsoon
Scenarios are dire, but solutions may be surprisingly easy.
Bangladesh: blackouts trigger violent protests
Zimbabwe runs dry
Kenya: Student Violence Baffling
Shaming the hydro hogs
In India, water crisis means foul sludge
Forests worth far more alive than dead
Beetles trigger gold rush in B.C.
Mystery of methane levels in 90s seems solved
Scores of those who are aware of our troubles have convinced themselves that the answer lies in more of the same. But there are those who have another idea. (A Report from Third US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions.)
Former mayor of Colombian city talks traffic
Peter Day meets Tesla Motors
B-52 tests alternative jet engine fuel
We need an X prize for eco-friendly air travel
