Nov 8, 09
The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis In Global Land Use
Article by Jonathan Foley As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem – the global crisis in land use. With agricultural practices already causing massive ecological impact...
Resource: Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism
Throughout history, some architects have earned reputations as egoists who want to impose their ideals on culture through their massive structures. Industry masters are often viewed as untouchable, as few can afford their services. Not to mention, the majority...
Calling All Map Geeks
Cool site. Visit now. Go here. Now. Or maybe don't, if you don't want to get sucked into a vortex of clever map awesomeness. This tidbit was originally posted on the Sightline Institute's blog, The Daily Score.
The Atlas of Hidden Water
[Image: From the "atlas of hidden water." Check out the original PDF or simply view it larger]. An "atlas of hidden water" has been created to reveal where the world's freshwater aquifers really lie. "The hope," New Scientist reports...
Photo Essay: The 2008 World Expo
by Justine Bayod Espoz We encourage submissions from members of Worldchanging's global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from conferences, workshops and other worldchanging happenings they participate in. If you'd like to contribute your own report, please email...
Resources: U.S. Impacts of Climate Change, Human Development
Two new reports offer useful tools for thinking about the future, both focused on the United States and both needed. The first report, Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health, Settlements and Welfare comes out the U.S...
Corn v. Crude
Why are corn and oil prices rising in tandem? I've become a bit obsessive about oil prices -- I check them online several times each day, just out of habit. But most other commodities remain something of a mystery to...
The Moons of Saturn
A few years ago, I met Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader at the Space Science Institute, who subsequently signed me up for her email newsletter. Now, normally, I'd just unsubscribe myself and move on, but something about the...
Guest Editorial: Water Trading in China: A Step Toward Sustainability
by Yingling Liu In recent years, scarcity and pollution of water have become the paramount environmental woe in China. Numerous reports and books have exposed China's water crisis, depicting a nation suffering in the face of black-running rivers and...
Water, water, everywhere...
On March 22, World Water Day will continue to draw our attention to the pressing issue of global water supply. We’ve written about World Water Day before and its efforts to bring attention to the more than 1.2 billion people...
What Does Climate Change Do to Our Heads?
By Sanjay Khanna A small yet growing body of evidence suggests that how people think and feel is being influenced strongly by ecosystem transformation related to climate change and industry-related displacement from the land. These powerful stressors are occurring...
Two Extraordinary Works About Nature
My interest in nature films and photography has picked up recently, as I've spent time time with an incredible book and a phenomenal documentary: The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss is quite simply one of the cooler photography...
The Best Climate Change Websites
It's supposed to hit 96 degrees here in Seattle today, so (scientific certainty or no) climate is on our minds, and I thought this would be a good opportunity for an overview of climate resources online. If you're looking for...
Review: Under a Green Sky
Scientists are telling us that we need to rapidly and substantially reduce our ecological footprint -- think one planet, three decades. We're optimistic that such a transformation is possible, Because we focus on solutions here, we rarely think about, much...
Jellyfish House
The Jellyfish House, a recent project by San Francisco's IwamotoScott Architecture, has been "modeled on the idea that, like the sea creature, it coexists with its environment." As such, the entirety of the Jellyfish House is designed to operate "as...
The Wind Bank and the Battery
When it was announced at the beginning of January that Australian researchers had developed a kind of wind battery – an "electricity storage system that promises to transform the role of wind energy" – I immediately thought of a...
The Sea Around Us
by Rachel Carson (Oxford University Press, 2003) An instant classic upon its original publication in 1951, The Sea Around Us is the timeless story of the oceans, told through memorable images and recounted in loving prose. However, it is also...
An Inconvenient Truth
by Al Gore (Rodale Books, 2006) If you want a crash course in what climate change is, how we know itï¿œs here, and what we can expect if we donï¿œt do something about it, there is no better resource...
The Soul of Soil: A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers
by Grace Gershuny and Joe Smillie (Chelsea Green Publishing, 1999) To understand soil as the foundation on which all agricultural activities are built is the first step in ï¿œhonoring our oneness with all living creatures and helping the long process...
The Future of Life
by Edward O. Wilson (Alfred A Knopf, 2002) Biologist Edward O. Wilson is one of the worldï¿œs most respected scientists. Heï¿œs also one of the ones ringing the loudest alarm bells. The Future of Life, his call to arms, is...
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