Even if We Stopped Burning All Fossil Fuels Today, We are Locked into Some Climate Changes. Time to Get Prepared
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Feature Articles
Down in the Dark
Accompanying a Colombian Miner on His First Trip Underground Since an Accident Killed His Brother
Anna-Katrina Gravgaard and Lorenzo Morales
The Pursuit of Happiness
A New Measure of Societal Progress Can Help Save the Planet – and Us
Laura Musikanski and John de Graaf
To Our Readers
Take a Deep Breath
I’ve always loved the fact that the word “inspiration” comes from the Latin spirare, to breathe. And breathing, in Latin, shares the same root as spiritus – spirit. The yogic wisdom embedded i...
Jason Mark
Earth Island Reports
New Leaders Initiative
Announcing the 2011 BYA Winners!
Journal Staff
Yards to Gardens
Growing Food, Flowers, and Friendship
Children in Nature Collaborative
New Project Gets Kids Out to Play
IMMP: Autumn 2011
Saving Dolphins and Whales Worldwide
Mark J Palmer
1000 Words
Half-life
Jim Krantz
Journal Staff
Reports
Extinction is Forever
A Quest for the Last Known Survivors
Eric Freedman
Dam Bad
Laos’ Plans to Dam the Mekong Could Open the Floodgates to Further Dams on the River
Mike Ives
Do Trees Grow on Money?
A UN-Backed Plan to Address Climate Change by Slowing Deforestation Sounds Like a Good Idea. Unless You Live in the Forest.
Jeff Conant
Conversation
Kieran Suckling
Kieran Suckling doesn’t suffer fools gladly. As the founding director of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), Suckling is often invited to represent the environmentalist position ...
Jason Mark
In Review
Capital Offense
The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth By John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York Monthly Review Press, 2010, 544 pages
Seth Sandronsky
Not a Matter of Taste
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit By Barry Estabrook Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011, 240 pages
Adam Federman
Clenched Fists, Pointed Fingers
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Written and Directed by Marshall Curry, 85 min.
Jason Mark
Voices
Getting Out
How I got out was by literally getting out: connecting with nature, being outside, recognizing that there’s a whole world that accepts me for who I am.
Alex Johnson
Talking Points
Local News from All Over: Autumn 2011
AfricaThe Road Less PavedIf you build it, will they still come?
photo courtesy Noel FeansTake the long way home? A new road through the Serengeti could
disrupt wildlife migrations.
Some versi...
Journal Staff
Notes from a Warming World: Autumn 2011
First They Come for the Climatologists
Journal Staff
Privatizing Sunbeams
On June 28, the US Energy Information Administration announced that – for the first time – renewable energy trumped nuclear as a major source of power. For the first quarter of 2011, renewables pr...
Gar Smith
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Making Change? Or Selling Out?
Is Eco-Retail for Real?
Journal Staff
Consume Less – and Consume Better
There’s no denying it: We Americans are the hogs of the planet. We represent less than five percent of the world’s people but consume roughly 25 percent of the world’s resources. So we definitel...
Kevin Danaher
Can’t Buy Me Change
The fact that the question – can we promote ecological sustainability through buying better things? – is taken seriously points to the absurdity of so much environmental discourse. We need to be c...
