I have just returned from an excellent conference in Stockholm on Resilience, Adaptation, and Turbulent Times. To a certain extent, this conference marks a new stage in resilience science—the study of dynamic social-ecological systems—as it expands ...
The maps we make of the world say a lot about how we think of ourselves in it. Most world maps put people in one box and nature in another. However, many of the ideas we talk about at Worldchanging—personal planets, planetary gardening, colonizing ...
Nitrogen pollution is a particularly nasty problem. The element is essential to life, but it seems to seep, leak, and sneak into just about every environmental problem we face. Hypoxia, allergens, carcinogens, invasive species, photochemical smog, ...
In conjunction with the Massive Change exhibit that recently ended in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the City of Chicago Department of the Environment organized a one-day symposium that brought together experts in urbanization, energy, ...
Andrew C. Revkin is an award-winning science journalist for the New York Times covering environmental issues from pole to pole and ocean to atmosphere. Andy has recently completed his third book, The North Pole Was Here . Aside from his journalistic ...
The climate change debate is over and a discussion about solutions long overdue . The time has come to Focus the Nation . Thankfully, a 1-day interdisciplinary, non-partisan discussion on "Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century" will take place on ...
Laurie David is a producer turned global warming activist who has brought us An Inconvenient Truth , the HBO documentary Too Hot Not to Handle , and the comedy special Earth to America . She is also the founder of the Virtual March on global warming. ...
Massive Change opened with a bang last weekend at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art . Bruce Mau , Jennifer Leonard and members of the Institute without Boundaries introduced their project, which is not about the world of design, but about the ...
Modern agriculture is caught on an industrial treadmill that has polluted waterways, degraded soils, and devastated family farms . Agriculture, however, has begun the transition from an industrial to an information age, opening the door for a more ...
faces some major hurdles. methods could pump large amounts of CO deep underground but are still under development. On the other hand, natural methods that may be possible in the short term but require huge swathes of land and are only as ...
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