What climate “injustice” means for poorer communities
While the ecological and infrastructure impacts of climate change are becoming ever more self-evident, what about the social impacts?
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An Economic Game Plan to Prevent Water Pollution
Even though the Clean Water Act is more than 40 years old, its goals have not been met, and America is still beset with chronic water ailments and acute pollution incidents.
Think Like A Commoner
A community’s identity is inevitably entangled in its geography and its buildings, its history and its leaders.
We deserve more than this bad Farm Bill
Was it just exhaustion from two-plus years of negotiations that finally produced the Farm Bill that is expected to be signed by the President this week?
The United Kingdom’s ‘This is Rubbish’ Calls for Food Waste Prevention in the Food Industry
The United Kingdom’s (UK) This is Rubbish (TiR) is currently seeking funding to help pilot the Industry Food Waste Audit Proposal (IFWAP), its first research project on food waste in the UK’s food industry.
Climate Change: The Wrong Top Priority for Environmentalists and Conservation Professionals
You read that headline right, so let’s start with a disclaimer: Climate change is one of the biggest threats of the 21st century. Only idiots, ignorami, and certain categories of the insane dismiss the abundant science pointing to climate change, its causes, and its ongoing and future effects.
Seven Job Creation Strategies for Shareable Cities
Sharing is also at the heart of the employment model that is designed to keep wealth and jobs in the community: cooperatives.
Foodshed as New Democracy
As the local food movement, or…local food movements have taken root in the U.S. during recent years, advocates have discovered the need to express this evolving “locus focus” in new ways.
How Utah Decided to Embrace “Quality Growth”
If you’ve ever wondered how a deep-red state like Utah has managed to build some of the most ambitious transit expansions in the country, the short answer is: Envision Utah.
Warsaw: Resilience of Women Key To Climate Change Adaptation
In Mozambique, women operate Ambulance bicycle companies, a vital service in a country where climate change contributes to increasingly severe weather.
Surviving Climate Change: Is a Green Energy Revolution on the Global Agenda?
A week after the most powerful “super typhoon” ever recorded pummeled the Philippines…and three weeks after the northern Chinese city of Harbin suffered a devastating “airpocalypse,"…government leaders beware!
Warsaw: Global Landscape Forum Launches Alongside COP19
As climate talks continued at COP19 and climate activists took to the streets of Warsaw to demand an end to business as usual, the first Global Landscapes Forum debuted at the University of Warsaw Saturday, launching a two day conference to promote a novel holistic approach to addressing climate change while meeting the need to sustainably feed 9 billion people by 2050.