Category Archives: sustainability

John W. Day and Charles Hall, Urban areas are usually celebrated for their energy efficiency and low per capita carbon dioxide emissions, but such accounting ignores how and where they acquire their resources. read

Jeremy Butman on problems with the term. “Instead of sustainability, we should instead speak of adaptability, a term that skews away from the idea of a perfect, ordered nature and unchanging industrial-technological conditions, and favors a vision of nature in a state of constant change, even chaos; a vision that values difference and diversity, both biological and cultural.” read

Noam Chomsky on our lessening chances for survival: Prospects for decent long-term survival are not high unless there is a significant change of course. A large share of the responsibility is in our hands — the opportunities as well.” read

Casey Danson: CalTech’s orbiting solar panels could provide earth with limitless energy. read

Jen Hayden: “…Bayou Corne is the biggest ongoing disaster in the United States you haven’t heard of. Caused by salt-mining. read

F. William Engdahl’s book on the effects to GMO increase on birds and bees — and human foods. read

Jenny Marienau on Peabody’s bankruptcy. read

Bernadette Del Chiaro on the industry attempts to block California’s solar energy efforts. read

Rtan Koronowsky: Solar roofs created more jobs in 2015 than coal and oil extraction. read

Abby Martin on reach of Big Oil (28 min). watch

Costa Rica is 99 percent renewable. read

Green energy reproduction state by state. read