Climate – April 1
UK’s CO2 emissions reach 10-year high
Understanding and evaluating carbon offsets
Global warming may be bad for asthma sufferers
Health
Next IPCC climate report due Friday: outlook not good
Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms
Climate report maps out ‘Highway to extinction’
GW could bring hunger, melt Himalayas
Global warming puts 60 nations at risk
Australia faces extreme weather rise
Health woes worldwide
The Challenge of Affluence
An Oxford scholar has published a definitive work on why we’re not happier, even with rising levels of wealth.
Food & agriculture – March 15
Linking regional farmers and buyers in Idaho
An experiment in back yard sustainability
Big Food’s lie about feeding the world
Malaysia: Fast food sector bows to ministry’s ad demands
Thinking climate change – Mar 9
How to think differently about climate
Kim Stanley Robinson: The anti-Crichton
Sports Illustrated covers climate change
Epidemiologist: A cost of climate change that can’t be counted in dollars – survival
Dysfunction – Feb 22
Children’s TV ‘is linked to cancer, autism, dementia’
Scientific evidence: TV rots brain, ruins body
Malaysia to confine foreign workers
Endangered languages encode plant and animal knowledge
Food & agriculture – Feb 22
Bon appetit – and now we’re growing our own
The Senate slaps sustainable ag (ATTRA)
Just keep farming until the money runs out
Oz crop production worst in 20 years
Farmland the new hot property
Food & agriculture – Feb 20
Radical ruling proposed on UK food advertising
Humans’ beef with livestock: a warmer planet
Transportation, food security & local economies
Australian crop production worst in 20 years
How a cookbook renaissance heated up the sustainable-food movement
Food & agriculture – Feb 19
Sugar rush: consumption jumped from 4 to 90 pounds a year during industrialization
Iraq: Now it is lack of food security
Development gobbling up California farmland
The real cost of bottled water
Energy: healthcare’s preconditional crisis
Modern healthcare is dependent upon enormous inputs of energy and an array of petroleum-derived products. Nevertheless, there is silence and inaction regarding the threats posed by the end of the fossil fuel era,
Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Vegetarian is the new Prius
Dale Alan Pfeiffer on eating fossil fuels
Deconstructing dinner: Farming in the city
Cloned food items won’t come with warnings
Transport – Feb 6
For Teenagers, the Car Is the Danger Zone
Subdivisions in remote areas increase cost county services
China expands ship-rail transport
Why Don’t You Walk More?
