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Local Communities Playing Vital Role in Marine Conservation’s good news that a first of its kind assessment of community-led marine conservation in the Western Indian Ocean adds to growing evidence that marine conservation works best when local communities are responsible for fisheries management.

Livestock: more than meat

Beyond the debate about meat in our diet and the environmental impact of cows, there is an emotional and cultural angle on our human relationship with livestock that is rarely discussed.

The Original Geo-engineers

If we want to construct a healthy and resilient world for ourselves and our fellow creatures, we could do worse than look to the lowly beavers for hints on how it can be done.

23 Food Sharing Projects That Are Disrupting Hunger

Food is one of our most basic needs. And yet, for over 800 million people, food insecurity remains a daily issue.

Cold War leftovers

One should be grateful to one’s critics–it is much better to be criticized than ignored.

Theater belongs to the people: Occupying Rome's Teatro Valle


Making Good Food Affordable

I'm always stunned at how uninformed many people are regarding the nutritional benefits (and costs) of the food they buy and eat. 

Why Restoring Wetlands Is More Critical Than Ever

With sea levels rising, coastal the U.S. and Europe are realizing the value of wetlands as important buffers against flooding and tidal surges.

Our watershed moment

We humans need water for life, we love it for leisure, we make art out of it; yet we also waste it, dirty it, privatise it, use it as a weapon and, most dangerously, stir it up brutally in the form of manmade climate change.

Shales vs. solar: An investment perspective


A Framework For Assessing Country-Level Resilience


Against the Odds


Natural gas: A green bridge to hell


Going Soil-Friendly


You can't taper a Ponzi scheme: Time to reboot


A struggle to save Europe’s soul from privatization

As the EU sells its soul by pushing Greece to privatize its natural and cultural heritage, ordinary citizens are mobilizing to save their common wealth.

Peak Oil Review - July 28



Suggestions on how society might better adapt, physically and psychologically, to what's ahead.

The Changing Face of World Oil Markets


Why doesn't the 'long emergency' feel like an emergency?

What appears to be masking the ongoing emergency is the rise in stock and bond markets. The disconnect between the still sluggish economy and the stock market which keeps hitting new highs is one indication that dangers lurk in the world economy.


 The idea that people may actually choose to cooperate with each other in managing important resources, and to reap their gains in nonmonetary forms, is “irrational” to economists.