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Sierra Club: "Reducing global poverty is critical not only to ending human suffering, but also to a more sustainable future. Take action now to support the Global Poverty Act....
In 1991, George Bush Sr. was President, something called “grunge” was beginning to ooze out of the Pacific Northwest, and I had just moved to Phoenix, Arizona.
Back then...
For nearly two months, almost every day, a well-dressed, clean-shaven man has been standing at a busy intersection outside Santa Fe city limits. He stands several hours, usual...
If you are anything like me, making environmentally conscious decisions comes more naturally when those decisions aren’t a hassle. Cities where public transportation, pedest...
When presented with a wild idea, at least if it’s a good one, many scientists tend to say about the same thing: ‘I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s a good metaphor ...
"If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse the student anti-war energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration t...
On Earth Day this year, amidst the celebrating, we added about 230,000 people to the planet—as we do every day. By the time Earth Day 2011 rolls around we’ll have tossed a...
I’m about to ask you for a favor. It’s a big favor, maybe the biggest favor you’ve ever been asked for. Most likely you’re not going to want to grant it. Perhaps you w...
What would we do without light? Lots of things, actually. Electric lighting isn’t an option for the 75% of Africans who have no access to electricity, and the estimated 38 m...
Let me start by saying what sustainability is not. It is not endless consumerism based on the pharmaceutical industry, plastic bags, traffic jams, war, clear cuts, chemicals, ...
Lodu leads his visitors to the top of his temple and sacred god—Niam Raja, as he calls this mountain—and hangs his axe head over his sinuous, copper-skinned shoulder. They...
In a bid for eco-friendliness, should we dump the sentient races and let SUVs rule the world? (Well, duh! Yes, if we wanna be strictly logical!)
There has been some talk tha...
Last August, the New Yorker published an article about Elon Musk that’s been bothering me ever since.
Musk, the one-time PayPal owner (his shares sold for $160 million) tu...
Brian Czech is president of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). CASSE works to promote an economic system with stabilized consumption of goods ...
This started out as a top-ten-books-about-environmentalism op-ed—essentially the books that shaped my eco-philosophy. And some of those books still remain, but the more I th...
In a book written earlier this year, The Life You Can Save, Princeton philosopher Peter Singer created the ethical quandary now known as the pond example.
This week, in his ...
The water on this planet is finite. Even so, although we use it, we never lose it. Rather, water cycles through the environment and returns to us. In one simplified example, w...
EcoHearth: What is the best way for someone interested in population control to help spread the word or get involved?
John Feeney: Write letters to the editor. One site Publ...
The following is an edited email interview with John Feeney, environmental writer and head of Global Population Speaks Out (GPSO). GPSO, an organization which advocates for po...
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