Michigan Looks Forward and Sees a New, Blue Economy
Business and government leaders in Southeast Michigan want to move beyond the green economy to a blue one, leveraging the state’s plentiful freshwater access for its economic advantage.
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Heart of Dryness: Climate Change Coping Strategies
Since the dawn of Homo sapiens in arid Africa, nine tenths of our evolution has unfolded as foragers. Only relatively recently did our species embark on agriculture, and recent events suggest certain limits to that extraordinary experiment. Exponential population growth has combined with unprecedented climate change until half the planet’s land surface can now be classified as drylands—arid landscapes inhabited by a third of humankind.
Keith Schneider: Climate Treaty Will Come After COP15
It’s been 30 years since scientists first gained a clear understanding of the dangerous consequences of continuously adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This week during the five days of negotiations in Barcelona the world learned again that the formula for solving global warming is a diplomatic chemistry problem that still defies a solution.
Environment to Round off GDP as Measure of Europe’s Success
At a time when Europe struggles to emerge from economic recession, the European Union vows to create indicators for its well-being that go beyond calculating the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Peter Gleick: New McCarthyism: Fear of Science and the War on Rationality
As more and more of the world looks to knowledge, education and science as the routes out of poverty and conflict, parts of America seems to be slipping back toward the Dark Ages,
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Peter Gleick: Get Rid of Your Clunker
More on Inefficient Washing Machines (and Toilets and Irrigation Systems)
Peter Gleick: Why Do You Still Have a Top-loading Washing Machine?
My colleagues and I here at the Pacific Institute have been arguing for more than 15 years that California has enormous potential to save water by improving water use efficiency.
Video: Toxic Coal Ash Town in Indiana
A small Indiana town is slated for cleanup as an EPA Alternative Superfund Site.
Peter Gleick: Truth Drought, California’s Real Shortfall
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar came to California on Sunday to hear firsthand about California’s drought.
Drinking From The Sea
Pressed by growing urban populations, drier and warmer climates and the need to fortify supplies stretched by the increasing worldwide thirst, metropolitan and national governments on five continents are building record numbers of industrial plants to use a nearly alchemic technology to produce drinking water from the sea.
Fred Krupp: Changing the Climate at the World Economic Forum
Fred Krupp, of the Environmental Defense Fund, talks carbon, Obama and more.
