www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/press_room/C68/pb4_ch7_datarelease In Chapter 7 of the recently released Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Lester Brown lays out the Plan B goals for eradicating poverty and stabilizing population. Behind [ … ]
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Book Review: Life, Money and Illusion
Life, Money and Illuision is not about the magical arts or wizardry, though it does demystify money and Wall Street’s greedy aspirations abetted by the global push for more growth [ … ]
Sustainability is about Permanence
According to Richard Florida in his latest book, Who’s Your City?, the average American moves every seven years. “More than 40 million people relocate each year; 15 million make significant [ … ]
Book Review: Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Most of us have heard about the slow food movement where we savor the taste of a place, know our farmers and sip the wine slowly, not gulp down a [ … ]
Earth Policy Institute: Needed — A Copernican Shift
By Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus published “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres,” in which he challenged the view that the sun [ … ]
STATE OF THE WORLD Book Series Pivotal to Understanding our Paths to Sustainability
People often ask me: “So what set you on your present course of operating a sustainable business, growing most of your own food organically, working from home, and powering your [ … ]
Personal Happiness and the Economy: A Sustainability Link
In my previous post, I brought up the sustainability prism and the link between personal happiness or peace and the other three, traditional components of sustainability theory — economy, equity, [ … ]
Cutting out Credit Cards: Living Within (or Beneath) our Means
There’s more to buying that high-tech gizmo or fancy new clothes, especially if you put it on plastic. If you’re anything like the so-called average American with combined balances on [ … ]
Eco-Libris: The State of Green Printing – An Interview with Deb Bruner of Pinnacle Press
This post was originally posted on Eco-Libris blog on March 18. We’re constantly talking about the need of the book industry to increase its efforts to lower its environmental impacts [ … ]
Low Impact Living: How the Stimulus Bill Can Help Green Your Home
[social_buttons]If you’ve long longed to green your home but never felt you had the money to do so, get ready to take action. Obama’s new stimulus plan, signed into law [ … ]
Restorative Resolutions for 2009 and Beyond
With a campaign tag line, CHANGE WE NEED, President-Elect Barack Obama and a large portion of the American population should have some rather meaningful New Year resolutions for 2009. For [ … ]
The Twelve Days of sustainablog: Poop, Green Teeth, and Pimpin’ Your Ride
June’s most often associated with weddings, summer vacations, and Father’s Day… as you can see by the headline, we went in some other directions that month, too. Summer was here, [ … ]
Environmental Defense Fund: The Green Jobs You’ve Been Hearing About
This post is by Jackie Roberts, EDF’s director for sustainable technologies. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/oulpzUfAGoU&hl=en&fs=1] The thought of revitalizing the economy with green jobs is inspiring, but how will it actually work? What [ … ]