Climate Change: A Window of Opportunity
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— April 3, 2007 —
On the surface, our lives run on as usual, with ordinary obligations and ordinary successes – mortgage payments, leaking faucets, overdue library books, deadlines met, milestones marked and moved beyond.
And yet while all this ordinary life has been going on we’ve also been adding to levels of heat-trapping pollution in the atmosphere. And [...]
Three Steps Towards Sustainability
by Elizabeth Sawin
— November 7, 2005 —
Three concrete steps towards sustainability in the U.S.? That shouldn’t be a hard list to create. Certainly there are enough possible steps out there waiting for us to take them. The first that come to mind:
1. Charge the full costs of resource use — not just what it costs to catch a fish or [...]
The Christmas Tree Industry is One More Reason To Address Climate Change
by Andrew Jones
— November 27, 2004 —
One of my family’s favorite things to do this time of year is to journey into the mountains near Leicester to fell a Fraser fir at the farm of Anthony and Kay Cole. I met the Coles through their 5-year-old son Eli, who went to preschool with our daughter, Annabelle. If you have bought [...]
Thirty Years Later the Idea of Limits to Growth Is More Important Than Ever
by Elizabeth Sawin
— September 2, 2004 —
Pick up the newspaper on any day and you are likely to find plenty of bad news about humanity’s impact on the Earth. From the global to the regional to the local, if you are feeling pessimistic you can find all sorts of “proof” that humanity is well on the way to self-destruction.
If you [...]
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website.
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
The signs are everywhere around us:
Sea level has risen 10–20 cm since 1900. Most non-polar glaciers are retreating, and the extent and thickness [...]
