Sustainability

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2009

• Top 10 Myths about Sustainability - Scientific American 9mar2009
• Social Collapse Best Practices - Dmitry Orlov / Culture Change 14feb2009

2008

• An Obvious Solution - William Kotke / Speaking Truth To Power 23sep2008
• Political Will, Political Won't - Paul Chefurka / Speaking Truth to Power 3sep2008
• A Short Critique of the Stern Review - Real-World Economics Review 15mar08
• Civilization's Golden Era Teetering on Collapse: New Millennium Has Brought a Turning Point in History, Yet We Ignore Meltdown - Vancouver Sun 28jun2008
• Rundown Urban L.A. Property Transformed into Country Escape - Los Angeles Times 22may2008
• New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears: Spread of Prosperity Brings Supply Woes - Wall Street Journal 24mar2008
• How Shipping Containers Shortened the Life Span of Petro-Civilization - Culture Change 23feb2008
• Intensive Crop Culture for High Population is Unsustainable - Culture Change 10feb2008
• Has Earth Entered a New Epoch? - Christian Science Monitor 7feb2008
  • Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene? - Zalasiewicz / GSA Today 1feb 2008
• In a World Short Of Oil, Provisions Must Be Made: No Faith in a 'Techno Fix'  - Wall Street Journal 26jan2008
• Collapse: WalMart and Waiting for the Shoe to Drop - Culture Change 20jan2008
• Cheapskates Go Green - Funny Times 1jan2008

2007

• Astronaut Tosses Junk From Space Station - AP 23jul2007
• Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Our Bees? - The Independent (UK) 30apr2007

• Biodiesel For The Revolution: I Don't Think So - Slingshot 6apr2006
• All the Organic Broccoli in the World Won't Be Enough to Save the Planet - Guardian (UK) 4mar2006
• It's Capitalism or a Habitable Planet - You Can't Have Both - Guardian (UK) 2feb2006
• Not Enough Metals In Earth To Meet Global Demand - SPX 27jan2006
  • Metal Stocks and Sustainability -- R.B. Gordon et al / PNAS 31jan2006

2005

• The Ends of the World as We Know Them - Jared Diamond / New York Times 1jan2005
• Garbage Land: On The Secret Trail of Trash - Book Review / Washington Post 10jul2005

2004

• U.S. Faces a New 'Space' Race: America is Going to Need More Room -  Wall Street Journal 13dec04
• "Fuel for Nought" The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster -  The Guardian Weekly (UK) 8dec04
• Is Biodegradable Plastic an Oxymoron Just as Recyclable Plastic is?  Paul Goettlich / Northern Californians Against Plastic 5dec04
• Reusable Bags Tackle Plastic Bag Mess - Vincent Cobb / O'Mama Report 21nov04
• A Wealth of Happiness: Tashi Wangyal -  Wall Street Journal 8oct04
• Interconnectedness of all in the universe Doom and gloom? Your perception calls the tune - Jan Lundberg / Culture Change 9sep04
• Fighting Obesity, by Design -  Denver Post 31may04
• The EU Plans New Regulations for Scientific Risk-Taking, Based on the Principle of Sustainable Development. US big business is furious -  The Guardian (UK) 12may04
• Selling Biodiversity: Benefit sharing is a dead concept - Devinder Sharma (India) 3may04

• Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping - SF Chronicle 24apr04

2003

• More Aluminum Cans Trashed Last Year Than Recycled - Container and Packaging Recycling UPDATE Summer/Fall 2003

• Beyond Sustainable, What’s the Next Scrutiny for Fisheries? - Jeremy Brown / Fishermen’s News Jul03

• What on Earth We Can Do to Save the Planet -  Guardian Weekly 17jul03

• Nature Produces No Waste - Environmental Task Group, New Zealand Institute of Architects 22jun03

• The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World: A Summary - The Independent Science Panel on GM Final Report ISIS 2jun03

• An Illusion of Progress - The Ecologist Jun03

• Eco-Clean Homes  - YES! A Journal of Positive Futures Spring 2003

• Wind Energy: A Renewable Crop To 'Power Up' Rural America  - CropChoice 7mar03

• Save The Seeds  - Washington Post 3jan03

• Accountability in the Pesticide Industry International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Jan/Mar03

• 78 Reasonable Questions to Ask about Any Technology  [BEFORE production] - Clamor Jan/Feb03

• The Skeptical Environmentalist Author Found Guilty of Scientific Dishonesty - Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty 7jan03

2002

• Recycled Christmas  - ENS 14dec02

• On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversity - Vandana Shiva / ZNet 1dec02

• Learning to Build in Green  - Berkeley Daily Planet 22oct02

• Vandana Shiva, Champion of Biodiversity  - India Currents Oct02

• Converts to the Creed of Lean Manufacturing are Discovering that Less is More  - The Guardian (UK) 19sep02

• Let Us Catch the Power of the Wind  - Letters to the Editor of the NY Times 4sep02

• Protesters and Police Draw Earth Summit Battle Lines - Reuters 25aug02

• Buildings That Breathe - Time Magazine v.160, n.9, 26aug02

• Dr. Daniel B. Botkin: Adjusting Attitudes on Energy to Keep Our Favorite Things -  NY Times 20aug02

• Frances Moore Lappé Standing at the Crossroads of History  - Seeds of Change eNewsletter 8aug02

• Sustainability for Whom? -  Science in Society n.15, Summer02

• Biomimicry: Taking on Nature's Way -  Review of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature / SF Chronicle 27jul02

• Energy-Efficient Schools Grasp Green Incentive -  Boston Globe 15jul02

• Conversation with Carolyn Merchant -  California Monthly (UC Berkeley)Jun02

• Cleaner Production: Global Status 2002 - Exec Summ. - UNEP Jun02

• The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry - Book Review ERIC ZENCEY / The Nation 1jul02

• Accounting: Industry as a partner for sustainable development: Accounting Sectoral Report - Executive Summary/ UNEP DTIE May02

• The Politics of Ethics: By Identifying Ethics with Civic Virtue, We Create an Ethics of the Left  -  The Nation 8apr02

• Sustainable Agriculture in Petaluma, CA: The Home of Rocky the Range Chicken - Argus-Courier 8apr03

• The Great Landfill in the Sky  - GAIA Campaigner v.2, i.2 Apr/Jun02

• The Human Individual and Community in the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher / EPA, Ethiopia 14mar02

2001

• Are You Ready For The Green Revolution? . . .in Architecture, that is. - Fortune 10dec01

• Humans as the World's Greatest Evolutionary Force  - Science 7sep01

• Say Goodbye To Grass  -  Time 2jul01

• The Importance of Vision  - Rachel's n.727 (parts 1&2) 21jun01

• Magazine Industry Environmental Impacts and Recommendations for Improvement Exec. Summ. -  PAPER Project 10jun01

• Sustainability Science  - Science v292 27apr01

• Alternative Household Product Recipes  - LA Co. DPW May01

• Ethics For Survival  - Carolyn Raffensperger and Nancy Myers 18jan01

• An Incentive That's Hard To Refuse Berkeley's best recyclers to receive cash rewards -  SFC 11jan01

• Toward Sustainable Chemistry - Terry Collins  - Science 5jan01

2000

• Clearcut Alternatives  -  Circle of Life Winter 2000

• Poverty & Globalisation - Vandana Shiva / BBC Reith Lecture Series 14may00

• A Global Green Deal - Mark Hertsgaard /Time Special Earthday 2000 Edition Apr-May00

• Brazil Recycling 80% of Nation's Aluminum Containers - AP 3jan00

• Resilience, Sustainability, and Environmentalism  - S. Lélé / Pacific Institute 2000

• Capacity Development for the Environment: A View for the South, A View for the North - Ann. Rev.  Energy Env.  2000 

• Zero Waste turns Garbage into Savings -  ENN 2jan01

• The Whole World in Our Hands: Only a New Set of Principles Can Save Our Planet  - Gerald O. Barney / SFC 31dec00

1999

• Compost Pile Fault-Finding and Remedying - GEORGE CORRIN / Handbook on Composting and the Bio-Dynamic Preparations 1999

• Ecological approaches and the development of "truly integrated" pest management - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 25may99

1998

• Sustainable Lawn Care  - Paul Goettlich Fall 1998

• EPR: What Does It Mean? Where Is It Headed? - P2: Pollution Prevention Review v.8 1998

1997

• Extended Producer Responsibility: A Primer - Container Recycling Institute 18nov97

• Business Achieves Greatest Efficiencies When at Its Greenest  -  WSJ 7nov97

• Golf Course Scores in Pesticide-Free Era: An Interview at the Presidio Golf Course - Paul Goettlich / South Bend Tribune 13jul97

• Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken / Mother Jones Mar/Apr97

1996

• Zero Garbage of Frank Schiavo - Mother Jones Sep/Oct96

1995

• Easter Island's End -  Jared Diamond / Discover Magazine 1aug1995

• Green Gimmicks for Greenbacks -  Environmental Health Perspectives 1apr95

1992

• No Simple Answers - Robert Gilman / In Context Winter92

• The Hannover Principles  - William McDonough and Michael Braungart 1992

1984

• Distinguishing features of a 'Green paradigm' from Porritt, J. Seeing Green 1984

1983

• The Utopian Impulse: Reflections on a Tradition  -  Harbinger: The Journal of Social Ecology  Winter83

• The Fascinating World of Trash  -  National Geographic 1apr1983

1798

• On the Principle of Population - Thomas Robert Malthus 1798

Also see The Precautionary Principle files