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#ForewordFriday: Not a Drop to Drink Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On June 20th, 2014
Water shapes every aspect of our lives, but how many of us know where our water comes from or who decides how it's distributed? In his new book, Chasing Water, Brian Richter argues that our water shortages can best be addressed by teaching people how water supply works and giving them a seat at the table in deciding how it is allocated. Richter shows why, just like our bank accounts, the water accounts of individual rivers and aquifers are shaped by deposits and withdrawals.
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Journey: Lessons from a Peripatetic Wolf

By Cristina Eisenberg / On May 28th, 2014
Remote camera image of wolf OR7, nicknamed Journey, in southwest Oregon, May 2014. Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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#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
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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.
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Wolves in a Tangled Bank

By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 14th, 2014
Elk browsing aspens in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Cristina Eisenberg.
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Overpopulation Is Not the Problem…If Climate and Biodiversity Do Not Count

By [node:field_contributor] / On October 23rd, 2013
In his recent New York Times article, “Overpopulation is not the problem,” geographer Erle Ellis comes to two optimistic conclusions: (1) we can feed our planet’s growing human population, and (2) we can do that without further destroying nature. Ellis’s optimism is to be commended. Ultimately, we are not going to fix the environmental problems we face without an endgame plan, and an effective endgame plan simply cannot be devised or implemented without optimism.
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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.

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