American business thrives on easy money—not low-interest money from banks, but stupendous sums of money from Congress, passed on …

Imagine our colossal, municipal landfills as mines full of resources for building our future urban and suburban spaces. What kind of …

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 …

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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 …

Solutions Classic How do we change the structure of systems to produce more of what we want and less of that which is undesirable? …

Anthropogenic global warming has a relatively short public career. Twenty years ago, in June of 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen first …