“By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster.”
This we learn in a story from Elizabeth Rosenthal in the New York Times. It raises the question of [...]
Archive for January, 2009
- is the rainforest actually growing?
Posted in climate change, plants and animals, tagged rainforest on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
- ditching the consumer society for one that’s sustainable
Posted in consumer culture, economics, tagged consumer society, recession on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fans of living for reasons other than shopping — among which we include ourselves — are enjoying the curent swathe of commentary addressing (finally!) the problem of how to create an economic recovery that’s also sustainable.
So we have Douglas Coupland worrying in a slightly incoherent fashion about what we will all come to in the [...]
- R.I.P Arne Naess — creator of the term ‘deep ecology.’
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, who conined the term ‘deep ecology’ has died.
Here’s an obituary.
