By Dan Sorenson, Arizona Daily Star, May 5, 2007
As officials around the globe discuss what to do about climate change, the authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report and some local experts say there is work to do here, now.
“It’s easy to say, ‘I’m the small guy and I don’t count,’ but [...]

Today, March 22nd, is World Water Day, an international observance that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Worldwide, we see an abundance of water problems. We also see an abundance of solutions.
On this World Water Day, thousands of people, mostly children, will die from preventable [...]

The summary of the fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was released on February 2nd. The IPCC is a group of hundreds of the world’s top climate scientists which issues updates every six years on the latest consensus of climate science findings. The final report summary says there is overwhelming evidence that human activity [...]

Do Sustainable Cities Have a Future?
By Neil Peirce, The American Prospect
Posted on February 21, 2007, Printed on February 21, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/47728/
This article is reprinted from the American Prospect.
A “green revolution” is burgeoning in America’s cities and towns.
And it’s a surprise. Six years ago, as we exited an economically exuberant but perilously polluting 20th century, the idea [...]

Presentation
at
Southwest Renewable Energy Fair
duBois Center, NAU
August 9, 2002
Man was the first creature to use fossil fuel…or was he?
E. Allan Blair, Ph.D.
Fossil energy or fossil fuel is solar energy stored as chemical energy in the form of coal, petroleum, and natural gas. It is plant material that has accumulated in sediments and thereby removed from [...]

Collapse And its Discontents By Dmitry Orlov
A CarolynBaker.Org Exclusive
February 01, 2007
Many readers are familiar with Dmitry Orlov, who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and from his experience offers options for surviving the collapse of Western civilization as we know it.—CB
Read more Dmitry Orlov at: carolynbaker.org and energybulletin.net
It’s been a [...]

Hawking warns: We must recognise the catastrophic dangers of climate change
By Steve Connor,
Science Editor Published: 18 January 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2162862.ece
Climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of the world, the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking has said.
Professor Hawking said that we stand on the precipice [...]

“Climate Solutions” from Co-op America
With the election of a new Congress come new opportunities to plan a better way forward on the issues we all care about.
That’s why Co-op America is mailing our recent “Climate Solutions” issue of the Co-op America Quarterly to each new and returning member of the 110th Congress. In it, we [...]

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David Korten
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1463
By what name will future generations know our time? Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth’s capacity to sustain and led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for what remained [...]

Interpreting the Precautionary Principle
Edited by Tim O’Riordan and James Cameron
Definitions of the precautionary principle
As Sonja Boehmer Christiansen points out in the chapter that follows, the precautionary principle evolved out of the German socio-legal tradition, created in the heyday of democratic socialism in the late 1920’s to early 1930s, centering on the concept of good household [...]