Aug 22, 08
Climate Change / Sustainable Development / Biodiversity and Ecosystems
New Science / Imagining the Future
From The Book
Planet: Introduction
Today, we are a planet on the move. According to the Population Resource Center, hundreds of millions of us have left the countries where we were born to start new lives abroad. Hundreds of millions more travel long distances for recreation and business. Jet contrails crisscross the skies, signals flash through fiber-optic cables, and the planet seems to shrink every day.
With all this travel, we've lost our connection to the land around us. Few of us could match the local ecological knowledge of our most ignorant ancestors. On the other hand, we've gained a greater understanding of the wider workings of nature.
image from NASA
Inside WCI: Federal Pre-emption
What happens with a new president? by Eric de Place This is the eigth in a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate Initiative -- the West's regional cap-and-trade system...
DNA Forensics May Prevent Elephant Poaching
A shipment of forest timber traveled around the southern tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean before it arrived at the Hong Kong dockyards two years ago. During a routine X-ray examination, customs officials discovered an even more...
Can the Dead Sea Be Brought to Life?
by Hannah Doherty The Dead Sea has been a religious and cultural landmark of the Middle East for thousands of years. Saltier than the oceans, the lake is like none other in the world. But in the past 30 years...
Carbon Share
by Eric de Place A new spin on cap and dividend. Here's an intriguing idea from California: Carbon Share. It's basically a version of Cap and Dividend (aka Skytrust) but with a twist. Instead of auctioning carbon allowances to polluters...
Two Views of Greenhouse Gases
The same data yields two very different pictures of what's important. Behold: two very different ways of looking at U.S. climate-warming emissions, thanks to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (pdf presentation here). First, the geeky view, with emissions broken...
Alternative Trade Networks and the Coffee System
by John Thackara Every day 1.5 billion cups of coffee are drunk somewhere in the world – quite a few of them in this house - but few of us in the North know much about the 25 million families...
Spatial History and the Mannahatta Project
Time's insights flow in both directions: anticipating the future can help us remove contemporary blinders to understand the past in new ways, and delving into the past can give us fresh perspectives on what might be possible in the future...
Inside WCI: Delay
Why wait and why not to. by Eric de Place This is the sixth in a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate Initiative -- the West's regional cap-and-trade system...
Can Cattle Save Us From Global Warming?
A small band of activists and scientists believe that farming done the right way can remove carbon from the atmosphere. by Jay Walljasper On an unseasonably warm and sunny winter morning—the kind that lulls you into thinking global climate change...
Your Turn to Imagine What Comes After Green
A few weeks ago, we asked if you would help us imagine what comes after green, to imagine the sustainable society that we both need and want to live in. Many of you responded with clever, inventive and thought-provoking ideas...
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