What Is Sustainable

We live in a fantasy world.   We have blind faith that we’ll be able to sustainably feed nine or ten billion people in 2050, a wish-based ...

Long, long ago, in scorching-hot 1988, Bill McKibben was busy writing The End of Nature , a book that cranked up the global warming warn...

Galileo was a lad who had a powerful talent for thinking outside the box.   He was capable of believing what he saw with his own eyes, and...

Michael Williams’ book, Deforesting the Earth , describes humankind’s 10,000 year raid on the planet’s forest cover.   Readers are taken...

The Club of Rome was formed in 1968.   It included big shots and experts from 25 nations.   Social and environmental challenges had grow...

 Baz Edmeades (“ed-meedz.”) grew up in South Africa.   His grandfather, Thomas F. Dreyer, was the paleontologist who discovered an un...

Stephen Emmott is a chief techno-wizard at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.   His brilliant young scientists are doing research...