Climate
The simpler way to a greener future
Trying out small changes will make your life better and at the same time greener.
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Expanding our moral universe
For humanity to continue to flourish, our moral decision-making must encompass a larger part of our natural and social environments.
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Climate
A city that runs on itself
Cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically? A team of students envisions building this into Vancouver's future.
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Biodiversity
Governance of marine areas beyond national jurisdictions
Improved governance of oceans beyond national jurisdictions will benefit biodiversity and help build more sustainable, equitable economies.
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Standing strong: Anniversary of the Tohoku Disaster
The coastal communities in the Tohoku-Kanto region have pulled together in their rebuilding efforts.
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Biodiversity
Can the commons move from margins to mainstream?
An expert explains the history and significance of the commodification of the commons and offers strategies for 'commoners'.
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Oil
Why the energy-industrial elite has it in for the planet
Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch.com introduces an essay by Bill McKibben on the global "carbon bubble" and how the fossil fuel industry profits.
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Oil
Wind promises to power Kenya’s growth
Journalist and filmmaker Evelyn Kahungu visited the shores of Lake Turkana to investigate plans to build Africa’s biggest wind farm.
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Biodiversity
Summer school with a difference
Participants from around the globe explored the complex relationship between culture and the environment during summer school in Yunnan, China.
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Climate
Lessons for Japan from the WorldRiskReport 2011
The WorldRiskReport may help to convey the complexity of disasters and strengthen Japan's adaptive capacities.
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Food
Food crises: architects needed
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food argues that hunger is a political question, not just a technical problem to be solved with short-term fixes.
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Biodiversity
Basque city capitalizing on green
Cities can be resource-sucking, pollutant-spewing monsters, but the picture could well be green if modelled after Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2012 European Green Capital.
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Food
Water for life: an African photo exhibit
Photographer Peter Bregg travelled through Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia documenting projects that aim to ease the struggle so many face in accessing clean water.
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Biodiversity
To serve the ecosystems that serve us
It's time to move beyond the term “ecosystem services” and consider what it really takes to craft sustainable lifeways that span generations.
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Oil
In depth on indigenous rights in the tar sands
An illuminating Q&A with Indigenous Environmental Network activist Clayton Thomas-Muller sheds light on aboriginal rights in Canada's tar sands.
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Oil
Can nuclear power save Japan from peak oil?
Japan's self-sufficiency in primary energy is a mere 18%, but the country's government is looking to boost that with nuclear rather than green sources.
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