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Frugal Value: Desigining Business for a Crowded Planet
Frugal Value: Desigining Business for a Crowded Planet. The dodo, a flightless bird of Mauritius, became extinct during the mid-late seventeenth century after humans destroyed the forests where the birds made their homes and introduced mammals that ate their eggs. Source: Wikipedia. Much has already been written on the subject of business growth. But while […]
Australia Pushes Ahead With Coal Despite Climate Concerns – Bloomberg
Australia Pushes Ahead With Coal Despite Climate Concerns – Bloomberg. Australia’s Queensland state threw its support behind plans for the nation’s largest coal project, two days after U.S. President Barack Obama called on the country to step up the fight againstclimate change. The state will help fund a 388-kilometer (241-mile) rail line to link Adani Enterprises Ltd. (ADE)’s […]
Tiny house movement comes to Canberra as new homeowners seek to avoid big mortgages – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Tiny house movement comes to Canberra as new homeowners seek to avoid big mortgages – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). In an effort to live a simpler life and avoid the large debt that comes from buying a home, Andrew Clapham is paring back and joining the tiny house movement. He has begun to build […]
Ebola Clinical Illness in Well-Described Patients: The US healthcare system can only successfully handle a little Ebola Washington’s Blog
Ebola Clinical Illness in Well-Described Patients: The US healthcare system can only successfully handle a little Ebola Washington’s Blog. Let me start this piece with the bottom line: I want to be clear that patients with Ebola virus disease are sicker, in general, than patients with any other medical condition, in the US or anywhere else. They are […]
Seed Saving, Part 2: Practical Ways to Save Seed
Seed Saving, Part 2: Practical Ways to Save Seed. Having learned some background knowledge on why you would want to save seeds in the first place (see Part I), you may now be wondering how to go about doing it. There are many ways to do this, and though it can be as simple as keeping […]
New satellite data analysis reveals areas of forest loss in the Yellowstone to Yukon region | Global Forest Watch Canada
New satellite data analysis reveals areas of forest loss in the Yellowstone to Yukon region | Global Forest Watch Canada. “The good news is that the entire area of Y2Y incurred a net forest loss of 2.4% during this period, an amount substantially less than for Canada as a whole,” said Peter Lee, Executive Director […]
IPCC report is clear: We must clean up our act | Science Matters | David Suzuki Foundation
IPCC report is clear: We must clean up our act | Science Matters | David Suzuki Foundation. It’s become a cliché to say that out of crisis comes opportunity. But there’s no denying that when faced with crises, we have choices. The opportunity depends on what we decide to do. What choices will we make […]
Peabody Energy Goes On Offense With New PR Campaign Designed To Sell Same Old Dirty Coal | DeSmogBlog
Peabody Energy Goes On Offense With New PR Campaign Designed To Sell Same Old Dirty Coal | DeSmogBlog. Despite what you may have heard about the death of the coal industry, Peabody Energy is ramping up mining activities and going on the offensive, pushing “clean coal” on the world’s poor with a disingenuous but aggressive PR campaign. And […]
To feed the world in 2050 we have to change course | Ensia
To feed the world in 2050 we have to change course | Ensia. November 12, 2014 — The 2008 global food price spikes were a wake-up call to global policy-makers, shaking them from the lethargic slumber of the overfed. The rhetorical responses were swift, but policies and practices have changed little. That is in part because they […]
AmeriScan: November 13, 2014 | Environment News Service
AmeriScan: November 13, 2014 | Environment News Service. … Utah Recycler Abandons Tons of Toxic e-Waste … U.S. Forces Smelly SO2 Emitters Into $50 Million Upgrades … PEER: ‘Cattle Trample Sage-grouse Recovery’ … Green Groups Sue to Save Walruses from Arctic Drilling … Conservation Partners Envision Recovery From BP Oil Spill … Anti-Nuclear Pioneer Honored by 14 Organizations Utah Recycler […]
Industrial Farming Plows Up Brazil’s ‘Underground Forest’ | Climate Central
Industrial Farming Plows Up Brazil’s ‘Underground Forest’ | Climate Central. PALMAS, Brazil – South and east of Brazil’s famous Amazon, the air becomes dryer and the humid rainforest gives way to emerald green patches of irrigated pasture carved from scrubby woods and native grasslands. As global meat demand increases, farmers are plowing up more of […]
Local Economies on the Table | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Local Economies on the Table | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Communities across the United States and Europe are working to transform local economic systems so that they are more sustainable and equitable. Programs that support the production of nutritious and culturally appropriate food by local farmers and locally sourced renewable energy, construction and […]
Use and Abuse of the “Natural Capital” Concept « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Use and Abuse of the “Natural Capital” Concept « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Some people object to the concept of “natural capital” because they say it reduces nature to the status of a commodity to be marketed at its exchange value. This indeed is a danger, well discussed by George Monbiot. […]
Why Environmentalists Love Plummeting Oil Prices
Why Environmentalists Love Plummeting Oil Prices. NEW YORK — Deepwater drilling rigs are sitting idle. Fracking plans are being scaled back. Enormous new projects to squeeze oil out of the oilsands of Canada are being shelved. Maybe low oil prices aren’t so bad for the environment after all. The global price of oil has plummeted […]
Are The US And China’s Climate Goals Realistic?
Are The US And China’s Climate Goals Realistic?. At first glance, the agreement between China and the United States to impose new limits on their greenhouse gas emissions looks like an effort for significant cooperation between two huge global rivals. But not everyone’s convinced that their plan will address the problem adequately. The leaders of […]
