Leonardo Boff debunks myths and offers a socioecological perspective on the intricacies of the Amazon Rainforest.
Ecological Transformation
From Dust to Dust: The Universe and Us
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Dan Brook uses the metaphor of dust to point out the extraordinariness of human existence––and our interconnectedness with everything else.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Gazing
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“so now we […] may nightly observe […] the deft undoing of what we once / had thought would long endure.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
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Deena Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of global extinction and offers the only solution – to stop extinction.
Environment
The Last Holiday: Reckoning the Cost to the Planet of Leisure Travel Abroad
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Jon Swan reports on the disastrous effects of travel on the environment, and argues that we are “doomed unless we radically alter our priorities.”
Ecological Transformation
China’s Bold Energy Vision
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Jeffrey Sachs shares how China’s proposed energy initiative is a bold strategy fit for the scale of the most important challenge the world faces today.
Environment
Ecological Civilization and the New Enlightenment
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In the era of a new Enlightenment, there must be new understanding of shared power and community to help our environment thrive.
Other Voices
The need for a low-carbon energy based economy won’t go away
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Jeffrey D. Sachs makes it clear why we need to switch to a low-fuel economy.
Israel/Palestine
Moving from Demographic Discord to Sustainability
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Alon Tal argues that of the many divisive issues that have been at the heart of historic tensions between Jewish and Arab Israelis, few have been as acrimonious as population growth.