Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Fossil fuel costs will continue to rise and eventually the healthcare system will be forced to downsize – just as the Baby Boomers and (possibly) climate change effects – inundate the system.
(Paper delivered at a nurses’ convention)
Rep. Bartlett: This Earth Day is different
Yale’s Gus Speth calls for shift from consumer capitalism to solve environmental woes
US life expectancy falls for large segment of population
Lester R. Brown: World facing huge new challenge on food front
Food price rises are “mass murder” – UN envoy
How hunger could topple regimes
We know secret of Joseph’s biblical pest control
BBC: Feeding the world
UN fears tragedy over N. Korean food shortage
The fury of the poor
Global South view of crisis (IPS)
Canadian Medical Journal – Obesity reduction and its possible consequences: What can we learn from Cuba’s Special Period?
The recipe for food rights (Vandana Shiva interview)
Bill Moyers: journalists as truth-tellers
Student sees problems with high school text
In Web world of 24/7 stress, writers blog till they drop
A teach-in on energy, climate change, water, agriculture and population. National experts will gather for a conversation on the state of our planet’s health. Several Energy Bulletin contributors will be speaking. (Free webcast).
NYC approves fees on city drivers
Life in the ‘burbs: heavy costs for families, climate
Eco-towns? Britons say no thanks
Walkable towns curb obesity, pollution
A ‘perfect storm’ of hunger
Food price hikes changing U.S. eating habits
Urban backyard chickens
Square trees grow in New Hampshire
Excessive emails and text are a mental illness
Deaths and disruption as price rise sees copper thefts soar
Despoiled Nauru – poster child for “The Party’s Over”
What does climate change do to our heads?
Scheme has led to 1,888 extra years of life for Londoners
