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The Challenge of Climate Change
No country can solve the global climate change problem by acting alone. If only one country in the world tried to solve climate change—even one of the wealthier countries of the world—this would be a grossly inadequate effort. On the other hand, waiting for a single worldwide “solution” to emerge from global negotiations is problematic....
A steady-state economy is incompatible with continuous growth—either positive or negative growth. The goal of a steady state is to sustain a constant, sufficient stock of real wealth and people for a long time. A downward spiral of negative growth, a depression such as we are entering now, is a failed-growth economy, not a steady-state economy. Halting an accelerating downward spiral is...
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Vancouver, Canada. The organizing committee for the Vancouver Olympics is making a bold green statement with the 2010 Games. The committee has gone to great lengths to prioritize...
In the Sudan, decades of war and unrest, intensified by the most recent conflict in Darfur, have created the world's largest population of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Homes for Sudan, a new...
It used to be that the only exports of the Mamak Landfill in Ankara, Turkey were the powerful stench of rotting garbage and the foul liquid runoff that seeped into underground waters. But today, the...
"My aim is to create a multi-million-person community of supporters that can respond to any conservation emergency anywhere swiftly and efficiently. I call this online community a virtual endowment, a...
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It is a typical Saturday afternoon at the mall for Mr. Smith and his children. As he wheels his 20-month-old son through the drugstore, the toddler spots a familiar face prominently displayed on the juice boxes. “Elmo, Elmo!” the child shouts....
In the evening hours of June 22, 2003, Mohammed and his brother were returning home in their car and approached a U.S. military checkpoint near Kunduz, Afghanistan. They slowed and came to a stop as requested by the soldiers manning the...
When the Samoan government published its 2007 Climate Risk Profile Report to assess what global warming means for this tiny Pacific nation, it came as a shock to many of the islanders. Not that Samoa, a cluster of ten tiny volcanic islands in the...
The traditional approach to conservation demands segregation—a boundary dividing man and wild. Conservationists identify endangered species' core habitats and try to fence them off from human contamination—from guns, cornfields, or shopping malls...
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In 1992, the year of the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Concerned Scientists warned that a “great change in our stewardship of the...
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Bowdoin College's Phil Camill offers a fresh perspective to the issues surrounding environmental change.
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