The energy wasted by the old appliance or car over its lifetime is far more energy than what goes into making a newer and much more efficient replacement.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green
NPR chose to reinforce the myth that the only hope for poor rural people is dependency on concentrated economic power when, all over the world, poor farmers are discovering their own power.
Matthew Stein | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green
In the 1800's, millions of people decided that slavery was an evil whose time had passed, and they put Lincoln in power to end it. If we proactively manage the transition away from fossil fuels, they will meet the same end.
Matthew Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green
"The bottom line is that the world is in what ecologists call an "overshoot-and-collapse" mode. Demand has exceeded the sustainable yield of natural s...
Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 07.27.2008 | Green
Lost amongst all the "solutions" to the energy crisis lies the fact that the energy crisis is simply one component of a much broader ecological crisis.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green
The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians should be listed as one of the Wonders of the World -- and it's in danger of drying up.
Max Keiser | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
The disappearance of water and credit has a common cause: a broken neo-classic capitalist system that forgot to factor in the replacement cost of natural resources and the costs of pollution.
Matthew Stein | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green