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Eating the seed grainOctober 9

Alex Steffen at World Changing frames our problem well. One way to wrap our brains around the implications of that many people sharing a small planet is to do some math, divide up the usable part of the globe by the number of folks who want to use it. This would give us a sense of what a fair share would be

The Green House Effect | Share. Learn. Shop. Explore. Your world in green.September 19

will awaken to the sustainability imperative, and then that, in some vague-but-direly-hoped-for way, this awakening will change everything and all will be well (and everyone gets a pony!). I think of this theory as betting the farm on the arrival of a Mythological Universal Conversion Event . Here's the biggest problem with this theory of social change: we've been at it for decades, it hasn't worked and it probably never will. Things are demonstrably worse than they were when we began advocating recycling and such, and they're getting

The Last Earth DaySeptember 16

which to measure our actions. That bar sits at the level of a one-planet life. Could every person on the planet live like us without destroying the biosphere? Are we at least taking actions which will make our lives and the lives of others one-planet in time to avert disaster ? And time is of the essence here. It looks like we have at most four decades to cut our ecological impacts by a factor of ten, and the longer it takes us, the deeper the cuts will need to be and more painful the consequences will prove. It is also

The Long HaulFebruary 22

things on the actual merits. We ought to be in a race to see which city in North America will be the first one-planet city, where the average citizens leads a one-planet life. That would be a rank-race worth following! After all, we've already placed an enormous bet on the outcome. Help us change the world - DONATE NOW! (Posted by Alex Steffen in Cities at 6:32 PM) Comments Off