“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 [...]

Dr. Albert Bartlett, a physics professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has worked many decades to educate people about the dynamics and consequences of exponential growth. In 2005, he was honored by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas—USA (ASPO-USA) with the annual M. King Hubbert Award.
Laws, Hypotheses, Observations [...]

Herman E. Daly is sometimes called the father of the ecological economics movement. In 1973 he edited an essential book, Economics, Ecology, Ethics: Essays Toward a Steady-State Economy published by W.H. Freeman and Co. Since then, he has authored many other important books including Steady–State Economics, Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, The Local [...]

Dana Meadows was one of four post graduate students in Jay Forrester’s Systems Dynamics Program at MIT in the early 1970s who researched and wrote the widely read, paradigm shifting study sponsored by the Club of Rome titled, The Limits to Growth. The following essay is a helpful guide in how to plan for and [...]

This is one of the key early essays of the environmental and sustainability movement written in 1968. Author Dr. Garrett Hardin illuminates the necessity of a new ethics to sustain the vast domain of what we all share – “the Commons”
The Tragedy of the Commons
By Garrett Hardin
Published in Science 13 December 1968:
Vol. 162. no. [...]

From the highly recommended website: transitionculture.org
Plant trees, disband the army, work together: the Tuscan way of surviving collapse by Ugo Bardi.
Rob writes: Ugo Bardi is a Professor at the Dipartimento di Chimica at Università di Firenze in Italy, and is also President of ASPO Italy, who so ably hosted ASPO5 in Pisa earlier [...]

GORE PLANS TO INITIATE A GRASS-ROOTS ‘CARBON FREEZE’ MOVEMENT
By Eric Auchard
Reuters
December 10, 2006
[ See original article ]
BERKELEY, Calif. - Al Gore plans to start a grass-roots political movement
next month to seek a “freeze” on carbon emissions that scientists say are to
blame for global warming.
The former vice president’s campaign is modeled after the nuclear freeze
movement of [...]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 7, 2006
Global-warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate “time bomb.”
Methane — a greenhouse gas 23 times as powerful as carbon dioxide — is being released from the permafrost at a [...]