An interview with Nate Hagens, ASPO-Vienna 2012 by Alexander Ač Introduction The current period can be undoubtedly characterized as an economical, ecological, cultural, political, but also moral crisis. The solution seems to be as far off as ever and...
There is nothing but “Sad News for Peak Oil Disciples” these days, according to the Financial Post. The latest example: Leonardo Maugeri, a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and...
Some people are simply born in the wrong place. Gloria was 16 years old when realized she was one of those people — after seeing the Rocky Mountains for the first time. After growing up in western Pennsylvania and...
As the world population climbs and water stress spreads around the globe, finding ways of getting more crop per drop to meet our food needs is among the most urgent of challenges. One answer to this call is drip...
Credit: European Environment Agency A man and child garden in Ireland’s first ecovillage. The village aims to be self-sufficient in food, with residents growing their own fruit and vegetables. The author’s Survival 2100 plan calls for the continued pursuit...
Why we should respect planetary boundaries Just when you thought weird weather and dying oceans might get us all thinking about how to reduce human impact on this little planet we call home, along comes Breakthrough Institute to propose...
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/06/15/bill-mckibben”>WBUR Environmental champion Bill McKibben joins us on fracking, pipelines, and Mother Earth now. Image credit: Alex Kingsbury/WBUR
Smoke is in the air here in the middle Rio Grande Valley, as winds push charred particulates northeast from the largest fire in New Mexico’s recorded history. The Whitewater-Baldy blaze has now burned more than 350 square miles of the Gila...
Bill Ryerson wrote this commentary in response to Fighting Climate Change with Family Planning, an article published at Sierra Club Magazine dealing with the deleterious effects of rapid population growth and proposing five ways to achieve a global population...
Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes — But So Is the Planet It’s been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial. First came the giant billboard with Unabomber Ted Kacynzki’s face plastered across it: “I Still...