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Featured Media Review
Blog
Most of the stories that reach us from Africa are about drought, famine, war, brutality, and desperation. AfriGadget looks to reveal a quirkier, more inspiring side of the continent. A multiauthored blog created by tech expert Erik Hersman, AfriGadget showcases innovation and entrepreneurship on a human scale. The blog is a fresh look at Africa crammed with video, pictures, and interviews. Among the creations featured...
Documentary
With over 3.5 million pounds of explosives detonated each day, mountaintop removal has devastated a land area larger than the state of Delaware and buried roughly 2,000 miles of streams with rubble. Coal Country Music, released last year with the provocative mountaintop-removal documentary Coal Country, is a tribute to Appalachia’s rich cultural and musical traditions. The CD features songs by Willie...
Noteworthy
In April 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a landmark decision to create new strict water...
The financial crisis has put stress on many government programs, from education to health care to efforts to fight...
The military’s war on junk food has commenced. A recent report released by Mission Readiness, a nonprofit group of...
James Cameron, complete with orange war paint and a spear, was in the Brazilian Amazon recently, screening his movie...
An estimated 350 million acres of forest covered the southern United States in the year 1600. Today, about 40...
In 2007, the U.S. military establishment placed itself at odds with the Bush administration by recognizing the link...
The development of megacities has been championed by the World Bank and some environmentalists as the most efficient...
Last October, the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced $151 million in...
Thanks to a much-anticipated new solid oxide fuel cell, Bloom Energy, a California-based tech firm, claims it could...
Other Media Reviews
Book
Stewart Brand issues his latest challenge to the environmental movement in his Whole Earth Discipline. Using climate change as his big stick, Brand does not walk softly as he attempts to overturn...
Book
For the last two decades, the following narrative has powerfully and decisively shaped debates over climate stabilization:
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions would impose large economic costs.
The...
Blog
We hear a lot about a postcarbon world, but what might that actually look like? A new media exhibit and website have been created to answer that question.
The Future We Want project gives Americans...
Blog
MTV News producer Todd Brown was sitting in his car outside the UCLA mental hospital waiting for Britney Spears to emerge when he realized his career had taken a wrong turn. After graduate school, he...
Blog
Envisioning a positive future is a fundamental prerequisite for getting there. The Great Transition Initiative is a large and growing international network that has been creating and analyzing...
Blog
On the Google Earth Heroes webpage, short videos document how people and organizations are using Google Earth to, for example, coordinate firefighting efforts in California, help the Mars Rovers...
Book
Who cannot appreciate the intensity of Frances Moore Lappé’s vision “that ideas have enormous power and that humans are capable of changing failing ideas in order to turn our planet toward life”?...
Book
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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Exploring solutions presented in our special July/August issue on Appalachia
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Bowdoin College's Phil Camill offers a fresh perspective to the issues surrounding environmental change.
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Author Response
Carbon Farming
Revisionist History !?!
Great insite to a sometimes forgotten area!
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