Journey: Lessons from a Peripatetic Wolf
By Cristina Eisenberg / On May 28th, 2014
The Carnivore Way: A Transboundary Conservation Vision
By Cristina Eisenberg / On May 13th, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Red Pill/Blue Pill Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On May 9th, 2014
If you've flipped through the latest issue of the New Yorker, you may have spotted "Green is Good" (subscription required), which profiles The Nature Conservancy's president and CEO, Mark Tercek, and a few of the projects they've worked on since he joined the organization. The article mentions Keeping the Wild, a compilation of essays confronting the principles of the "new conservation" that Tercek supports, in
Rise of the Superbugs
By Mark Jerome Walters / On May 5th, 2014
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a sobering report on the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Two main messages are unmistakable:
Antibiotic-resistant disease is no longer a threat looming in the future. The long-predicted threat has now arrived.
Ecodemics like outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant disease are largely of our own making. We are not innocent bystanders. We are co-conspirators.
Wolves in a Tangled Bank
By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 14th, 2014
Making Downtowns Liveable
By Admin / On August 5th, 2013
Harold Henderson of Build a Better Burb interviewed author Ned Crankshaw, author of Creating Vibrant Public Spaces: Streetscape Design in Commercial and Historic Districts. He chairs the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Kentucky.
#ForewordFriday: Is Sustainability Still Possible Edition
By Admin / On April 19th, 2013
This week's #forewordFriday selection comes fresh off a successful launch of the Worldwatch Institute's newest edition of State of the World. This 2013 edition asks the question: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Editors Erik Assadourian and Tom Prugh have brought together Worldwatch experts and other contributors including:
Are Your Kids Destroying the Earth?
By Chuck Savitt / On September 17th, 2009
Many families who dutifully recycle, take mass transit, and have a house full of compact fluorescent light bulbs, would say they're doing their part to save the earth. However, a new study from the London School of Economics suggests that in developed countries, making the decision to have children dramatically increases your negative impact on the environment.
Paul Ehrlich Talks about The Dominant Animal
By Admin / On February 16th, 2009
Watch Paul Ehrlich talk about his book The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment:
The Dominant Animal by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich from Island Press on Vimeo.
Vietnam May Revisit Two-Child Population Policy
By Robert Engelman / On December 18th, 2008
The government of Vietnam will decide on December 22 whether to penalize parents who have more than two children, reinitiating a coercive population policy it abandoned in 2003.
"We are considering an adjustment to our policy appropriate to the circumstances of the country," Truong Thi Mai, chair of Vietnam's Parliamentary Committee of Social Affairs, confirmed on Saturday. "The Parliament Standing Committee will decide the week after next."