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With Earth Overshoot Day 2010 coming up fast upon us, and every day's activities past that unsustainably depleting the planet's resources, it seems appropriate to ask whether there ought not be a better way o

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Here is the most succinct symbol of how humanity is using resources beyond the capacity of the planet to sustainable regenerate them, and is only increasing to do so: Global Footprint Network tells us that August 21, 2010 is

"Let us also live" -- in Tamil.

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We've covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it's worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere,

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Even though it's at the center of environmental thinking, the concept of sustainable development is pretty broad; and considering how often the term gets thrown around and invoked these days, perhaps a quick bit of clarity is in order.

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Last week a conscious community of business owners and entrepreneurs gathered in Boulder Colorado for three days to attend the LOHAS Conference: Businesses Coming Together To Help Change The World. We're talking conscious triple bottom line business companies and people, gathering to share information and inspire a sustainable future for our species. The result?

Container ship on the Mississippi River near New Orleans.

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In case you've been wondering lately if this whole tree-hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact, the UNEP has just released a new report detailing which human activ

This is one of the funniest takes I've ever seen on what it is the

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Algae biofuels certainly hold lots of promise in terms of yields. Certainly lots of fossil fuel companies seem to be betting on them to be what comes next in liquid transportation fuels.