The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during...
Sandra Postel views the world through a water lens, advocating for all to make simple and easy changes to their everyday lives that will help “Change the Course” of the Earth’s precious supply of freshwater.
A solar-powered drip irrigation system waters vegetable crops in northern Benin. Photo by Jennifer A. Burney For millions of poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa, access to water makes the difference between hunger and a full belly, between...
When we flip on a light, we rarely think about water. But electricity generation is the biggest user of water in the United States. Thermoelectric power plants alone use more than 200 billion gallons of water a day – about...
John Paul Flintoff’s article about Transition and The Power of Just Doing Stuff that appeared in the Guardian two weeks ago seemed to hit the right note, and has been popping up all over the place. It also led to the book being...
Numerous species of fish and other life forms face extinction due to human actions in this planetary time scientists propose to call the Anthropocene. Missions Media/National Geographic In late May, 500 scientists from around the world gathered in Bonn, Germany,...
As economies contract, a global popular uprising confronts power elites over access to the essentials of human existence. What are the underlying dynamics of the conflict, and how is it likely to play out? 1. Prologue As...