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Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
Marjorie Kelly, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012
In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.
—Genesis - Bereishit 1:1
Since the very beginning, who owns the world, its natural assets, and its people’s productivity has been an open question, the goal of dynasties, wars, and tax...
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Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World
Alyse Nelson, Jossey-Bass, 2012
Alyse Nelson is the president and CEO of the transnational organization Vital Voices. Since Hillary Clinton founded Vital Voices in 1995 at a United Nations conference for women in Beijing, the NGO has grown into a global organization with over 12,000 women members in...
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A new documentary, directed by former journalist Pamela Sherrod Anderson, highlights the unusual case of Arthur...
In August of last year, the Whanganui River gained its citizenship. Under New Zealand law, the third-longest river...
When nine-year old Martha Payne began a food blog last year, chronicling the paucity of her school lunches, she was...
She lived in a small Ugandan village and had lost five of her nine children over the past decade. The spirit, it...
Caterpillars might not be haute cuisine for many Americans, but a new organization in Africa is promoting them as a...
In just over a month, a small team from San Francisco was able to reconstruct five readable documents from 10,000...
Japan powered down its last nuclear reactor earlier this year to make the world’s third-largest economy nuclear free...
Eric Schwarz had an idea: to harness the experience and knowledge of trained professionals and bring it to the...
With President Obama and his Republican challengers gearing up to spend millions on their election campaigns, is...
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As a former mayor of Santa Cruz, California, I have had a sustained interest in alternative investment strategies for local communities. Most of the proposals I’ve studied and worked on tend to be...
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Wild boar, Burmese pythons, common carp, lionfish—rather than defend these species, environmentalists are encouraging the American public to eat them. As many of them as possible.
A new website, www...
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In the summer of 2011, a group of artists, leaders of a local women’s center, students at a girl’s school, and other local residents gathered in Balata, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank....
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Frances Moore Lappé takes on big issues in big ways with important results. In her mid-20s, she set out to understand why there is hunger in the world. The result was Diet for a Small Planet, which...
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Clay Shirky popularized the notion of “cognitive surplus,” the idea that in modern life people have hours of free time to engage in extracurricular activity, provided they can break away from the...
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Early in 2000, the Institute for Policy Studies, where I work, hosted a regrouping session for the veterans of the Battle in Seattle—the massive, mostly peaceful protest that disrupted the World...
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How big is your house or apartment? What (and how much) do you eat? How much bling do you wear? How many times have you paid for sex? Slavery Footprint’s survey asks you these questions—and many...
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We have made much progress in understanding how ecosystems (forests, oceans, the atmosphere, and so on) function and provide the services upon which human communities depend—air and water...
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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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Resilient maybe, but ecologically sustainable?
Encouraging the Search for Tipping Point Strategies
Degrowth
Discounting energy available at a known future time
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