Grist points out an article in today’s Wall Street Journal on new companies that offer environmentally friendlier products for sale at fundraisers for schools and non-profit organizations.
As the article observes, selling products that are environmentally (or otherwise) harmful to raise funds for a good cause clearly sends a mixed message. This concern can be elevated [...]

As energy prices rise, they have an impact not only on individuals, but also on state and local governments, colleges and universities, companies, and organizations of all sorts. In many of these institutions, there is currently little understanding of oil depletion and its far-reaching consequences, let alone a plan for an energy transition. As [...]

In a post earlier this month entitled Aren’t Ideas Important to Community?, Joe argued that we can be held back in devising solutions to the problems we face when “the most typical ideas in our culture stand at odds with our collective well-being.” Recognizing and correcting patterns of thought that hinder our efforts to address [...]

An interesting company called New Amsterdam Project is getting attention this week from TreeHugger and Green Daily. New Amsterdam Project (NAP) started offering delivery services in the Boston area last November using cargo tricycles that one might describe as human-electric hybrids. An electric power source assists the cyclist, making it possible to carry a [...]

Today’s Oregonian reports the less than surprising news that Americans are questioning the need for bottled water as the economic downturn prompts people to search for ways to reduce their spending. The article suggests that economic forces are now achieving what environmentalists have long struggled to do: changing how we consume water and reducing [...]

David Holmgren, who along with Bill Mollison introduced the concept of permaculture, has launched an insightful new website called Future Scenarios that assesses how the climate crisis and peak oil may interact and shape the prospects for humanity.
In exploring the future of energy, Holmgren outlines four possible futures, ranging from a wildly optimistic “techno-explosion” to [...]

I recently read a description of a project called Earth 2100 at Celsias. It asks “environmental enthusiasts, film makers and creative minds” to produce videos that depict what the consequences of the climate crisis, resource depletion, and population growth will be for the remainder of this century if we fail to act. ABC News plans [...]