Sustainability
Growing to Extinction
Here are some interesting facts found within Bill McKibben’s book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future: - The average bite of American food has traveled 1,500 miles and changed hands 6 times before it reaches your mouth. - The average new home size has doubled since 1970. - Only 22% of the energy... »
Sustainable Farming Whitepaper
– The human population, and its impact on the earth, is expanding exponentially. - Constraints on existing agriculture challenge our ability to feed a growing population. - Changing weather patterns, often caused by farming itself, are affecting our ability to grow food. - Water shortages are severely impacting our ability to grow food. - Expensive energy, which... »
Emergency? What Emergency?
Richard Douthwaite looks at the problems created by the availability of cheap energy. He believes it shaped capitalism and our monetary systems, led manufacturers and farmers to adopt unsustainable technologies, and permitted a six-fold increase in the human population while creating a concentration of power and wealth in very few hands. Richard Douthwaite – Emergency?... »
The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
Two dynamics are driving global demand for food: 1) A growing population; and 2) Rising global affluence. But with the large productivity gains of the ‘green revolution’ far behind us, can production keep up with demand? Other issues threaten the global supply of food, including water scarcity, overfishing, soil erosion, energy depletion and climate change.... »
Surviving a Nuclear Attack
Dr Irwin Redlener looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack. »
The New Economics Foundation
Just as the laws of thermodynamics constrain the maximum efficiency of a heat engine, economic growth is constrained by the finite nature of our planet’s natural resources (biocapacity). »