By Sandra Postel, National Geographic Newswatch
Imagine if your bank statement arrived each month and told you how much money you had withdrawn and deposited, but told you nothing about how much money you had at the beginning or end of the month.
By Robert E. Ulanowicz, A Prosperous Way Down
The records show that efficiencies can indeed foster per-capita decreases in consumption, but it may come as a surprise to many that, at the community level, the drive to enhance efficiency usually results in an increase in overall water consumption!
By Sandra Postel, National Geographic Newswatch
"We thought that the picture could be pretty bad, but this was shocking."
By John Thackara, The doors of perception
In California, the prototype of a combined social, political and technical solution has been launched which promises to unlock the food system crisis.