Faced with an unsustainable food system and an invasive species crisis, some adventurous eaters are trying to kill two birds with one stone. Literally.
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Jewel in Jeopardy: Will Alaska’s Rainforests Be Spared The Axe?
The Tongass is the final remnant of a once-vast West Coast rainforest. Now timber companies are gunning to harvest even this enclave of old-growth wilderness.
The Cleanest Catch
Connecticut oyster farmer Brendan Smith might just redefine what it means to fish sustainably. That is, if the hurricanes don’t get him first.
Rowing For Revolution: Can Roz Savage Change the World?
Roz Savage was a management consultant in London when she was struck by a crazy idea: she would row around the world to spark environmental awareness. Now that she’s back, has Savage’s “movement moment” arrived?
Where the Land Meets the Waves: Japanese Fishers a Year After the Tsunami
The tsunami of 2011 devastated the northern Japanese fishing fleet. Daniel Hoshizaki traveled there to talk to local fishers about the process of recovering from a disaster that came from the sea.
Fracking Goes to Court: Will State or Local Government Determine America’s Energy Future?
Do state governments have the right to decide where fracking wells go, or do the towns themselves get to call the shots?
Left to the Whim of Nature: The Strange Saga of Pleasure Beach
The decline and renewal of Connecticut’s most famous seaside resort may hold a few lessons for America’s blighted cities.
Delta Blues: Documenting Nigeria’s Oil Conflict
What does our thirst for cheap coil cost the people of the Niger Delta? Filmmaker Andrew Berends spent eight months amongst guerilla warriors fighting for their fair share of the spoils.
Three reasons America should ratify the Law of the Sea right now
For three decades the United States has shamefully failed to ratify the UN’s Law of the Sea. Now more than ever, it’s time for America to get with the program.
Turning Rio+20 into Kony 2012: Sustainable Development for the Facebook Generation
Michael Davidson, Philip Goo and Yiting Wang of NRDC hosted a lively session called “Accountability in the Age of the Internet” on the second day of the Citizens Summit. This is their message to participants and for everyone interested in making Rio+20 a different kind of Earth Summit: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mdavidson/turning_rio20_into_kony_2012_s.html
Consumption, Production and the People’s Treaties
March 23rd, 2012 Right now I am writing this during a meeting next door to the United Nations discussing the “Peoples Treaties” for Rio+20. These represent a parallel, civil–society driven process to highlight a range of issues and priorities not necessarily included or being addressed by the government delegates across the street in the negotiations going on now on the […]
Measuring Progress at Rio and Beyond
This past Sunday at the US-Canada Citizens Summit for Sustainable Development, I facilitated a group discussion on metrics and indicators for measuring progress toward sustainable development goals. Indicators and targets are mentioned throughout the “Zero Draft” document titled “The Future We Want,” a 19-page document that distills over 6,000 some pages of viewpoints from member states and major groups. This […]