Indigenous Peoples Can Show the Path to Low-Carbon Living If Their Land Rights Are Recognized

Many indigenous peoples are living examples of societies thriving with sustainable, low-carbon lifestyles. Successfully meeting the global climate change challenge requires that much of the world shift from high carbon-living to low

by Stephen Leahy | Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples | April 4, 2012

Youba Sokona of Mali is co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III. Photo: Citt Williams, OurWorld2.0

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Marx and Engels and “Small Is Beautiful”

Environmentalism and socialism have not always been on the best of terms. In the 60s and 70s, for example, there were fierce polemics between the two

by Samar Bagchi, John Bellamy Foster, and Fred Magdoff | Monthly Review | Feb 1 2012

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Debating the Future of Our World's Water

Achieving water democracy is surely a terrific opportunity to fix governance problems from the local to the global, but it's one enormous task

By Daniel Moss | AlterNet | April 6, 2012

Photo Credit: Shutterstock/ Ilin Sergey

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World’s First 6-MW Wind Turbine Constructed Offshore

The world’s first 6-MW offshore wind turbine went up in the North Sea this week. Wind company  REpower and C- Power NV, a Belgian offshore development company, installed the wind turbine, the first of 48 for the Thornton Bank II wind farm, which is being constructed approximately 28 kilometers off the Belgian coast

by Zachary Shahan | CleanTechnica in Climate Progress | Mar 25, 2012

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In Limón, a sustainable community takes shape

First in a two part series on how EARTH University is innovating new ways to improve the environment in Costa Rica and beyond

By Matt Levin | TicoTimes.net | March 16, 2012

Allan Chávez, EARTH University program development  coordinator, explains how manure from a pigpen is converted into heat energy through a tool known as a biodigestor. Photo: Matt Levin

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Migration not a matter of choice but survival, says Kiribati President

Following a recent decision by its Cabinet to buy land in Fiji as 'climate change insurance' for its population, Kiribati President, Anote Tong has called on the international community to address the effects of climate change that could wipe out the entire Pacific archipelago

By Brigitte Leoni | UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction | 15 March 2012

Children in the village of Tebikenikora, on Kiribati’s main Tarawa atoll (Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe)

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Japan's Green Renewal? After the Disasters UN Tour

I've returned from a sobering United Nations-led tour of six tsunami-damaged communities and two radiation-impacted cities in Northern Japan. The obvious conclusion: the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident is forcing Japan to go green, including the launch of a new renewable energy national feed-in tariff that starts in July

by Warren Karlenzig | Mar 6 2012 by Common Current in Energy Bulletin | Mar 6 2012

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Going with the flow

To fix the country’s long-term problems, action needs to start now

The Economist | Feb 11th 2012

Arid debates

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Strong Sustainability

In order to achieve sustainability, we need scenarios of where we want to go: not only warnings and plans, but also reports as if we'd already made the transition. Who would have suspected they'd come from the south Pacific?

by Craig K. Comstock | Feb 10 2012 by The Huffington Post in Energy Bulletin | Feb 10 2012

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Without women there is no food sovereignty

Systems of food production and consumption have always been socially organized, but their organization has varied historically. In the last few decades, under the impact of neoliberal politics, the logic of capitalism has been imposed upon the ways in which food is produced and consumed (Bello, 2009)

by Esther Vivas | Feb 8 2012 by International Viewpoint in Energy Bulletin | Feb 8 2012

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Japan finds water leaks at stricken nuclear plant

Japan's stricken nuclear power plant has leaked more than 600 liters of water, forcing it to briefly suspend cooling operations at a spent-fuel pond at the weekend, but none is thought to have escaped into the ocean, the plant's operator and domestic media said

Reuters | Jan 29, 2012

The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No.4 reactor building is seen before the removal of debris on the upper side of the unit in Fukushima prefecture, in this handout picture taken on September 22, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Tokyo Electric Power Co./Handout

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In Brazil, Fears of a Slide Back for Amazon Protection

Brazil has made great strides in recent years in slowing Amazon deforestation and showing the world it was serious about protecting the mammoth rain forest

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO | The New York Times | January 24, 2012

Deforestation in Brazil, driven largely by clearing land for cattle, as in Mato Grosso, above, has lessened. But there has been a shift under President Dilma Rousseff. Damon Winter/The New York Times

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Wind Power Without the Blades: Big Pics

Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that ditches blades in favor of stalks. Resembling thin cattails, the Windstalks generate electricity when the wind sets them waving

By Alyssa Danigelis | January 22, 2012

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The future of food

By 2050 there will be another 2.5 billion people on the planet. How to feed them? Science's answer: a diet of algae, insects and meat grown in a lab

John Vidal | The Observer | 22 January 2012

Seaweed harvesting in Bali. From seaweed to slime, algae is the future of food, says Professor Mark Edwards Photograph: Ed Wray/AP

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Indonesia to set aside 45% of Kalimantan for conservation

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) on Thursday announced a regulation that would protect 45 percent of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, according to a statement issued by his office

mongabay.com | January 19, 2012

Rainforest in West Kalimantan

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FAO-EC project to promote climate-smart farming

Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia will benefit from collaborative effort

FAO | 16 January 2012

Farmers participating in an FAO land and water management project in Guthi, India, check a new drip irrigation system

 

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Climate Change Models May Underestimate Extinction, Study Shows

Climate change projections may “grossly” underestimate the extinction of animal and plant varieties because the models don’t account for species movement and competition, U.S. researchers said

By Rudy Ruitenberg | Bloomberg | Jan 4, 2012

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Indonesia takes steps to increase rice production amid climate change

Indonesia is taking steps to increase rice production amid ongoing climate change, Agriculture Minister Suswono said here on Monday

Xinhua | Jan. 2, 2012

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Review: "The Wealth of Nature" by John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer takes on economics, a subject in desperate need of his characteristic, level-headed analysis. The usual growth oriented fantastical notions that have plagued the subject over the last half century were in particular need of such cool headed dispatching

by Amanda Kovattana | Energy Bulletin | Dec 30 2011

The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered
By John Michael Greer
263 pp. New Society Publishers – May 2011. $18.95

 

 

 

 

 

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Hawaii: Our Very Own Island Nation, Battling Climate Change Via Innovation

Amid the abstract arguments that often dominate discussions of climate change (let’s face it, for the average person climate models and debates over half a degree here or there don’t hold much relevance), the pleas of island nations have helped to put a human face on things

Amy Westervelt | Forbes | December 29, 2011

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