Competing Skyscrapers
As economic growth threatens climate stability, biodiversity, planetary geochemical flows, and ecosystem health, humanity is creating a bottleneck for itself.
conservation
Remembering Doug Tompkins
We at Post Carbon Institute heard today with profound sadness of the sudden passing of Doug Tompkins—one of the world’s foremost conservationists and a great friend and supporter of our work and that of many other environmental organizations.
New U.S. Water Rule is Crucial for Clean Drinking Water and Resilience to Droughts and Floods
It took nearly a decade, but finally the waters left terribly muddied by two U.S. Supreme Court cases have gotten a good bit clearer.
Film Review “Seeing the Forest”
Honick’s understated, well-made film makes a powerful point about the potential of open collaboration.
Can the North Sea Wind Boom And Seabird Colonies Coexist?
Offshore wind farms have been proliferating in the North Sea, with more huge projects planned.
Strike Three for the Tar Sands Pipelines?
TransCanada announced on Thursday a two-year delay in the completion of its proposed Energy East pipeline.
John Muir’s Last Stand
One hundred years on from John Muir’s death his legacy is under attack.
Bombs for Butterflies
I’m here to tell you about a weapon that could change the world. Discharging it in public wouldn’t harm any living creature; it wouldn’t even land you in jail.
Fishing in the Haig-Brown Library
In the 1950s the celebrated writer and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown and his wife Ann, a school librarian and fiery Catholic, built one such wordy paradise in their home by the Campbell River on Vancouver Island.
Toward a Finite-Planet Journalism
The transformation of our perpetual-growth society into a steady-state society…would be less painful if it were eased by environmental journalism worthy of the name
Climate Change: The Wrong Top Priority for Environmentalists and Conservation Professionals
You read that headline right, so let’s start with a disclaimer: Climate change is one of the biggest threats of the 21st century. Only idiots, ignorami, and certain categories of the insane dismiss the abundant science pointing to climate change, its causes, and its ongoing and future effects.
Ecological Artist Basia Irland and Her “Ice Books” Engage Communities and Restore Rivers
Basia Irland is a sculptor, poet, and installation artist who has focused her creativity on rivers for thirty years.
