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From police on Vectrix electric scooters to cycling proficiency courses for cops, the British police are cle

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When I posted a video of a mainstream farmer trying to green his operations, commenter Adam suggested that he was just doing it for economic reasons.

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I've been thinking a lot about scale recently. "Small is Beautiful" has long been a rallying cry of the green movement—and yet in light of the massive challenges we face, I'm thinking we shouldn't turn our backs on "big" either.

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Could government finally be waking up to the threat of peak oil? When a government minister attended a peak oil conference as a "keynote listener", I perhaps unkindly cited it as evidence that miracles do happen.

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When Michelle Obama first announced her White House garden, locavores everywhere rejoiced. Here was a highly symbolic, yet practical, indication of where the administration stood on sustainable agriculture.

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Some places have looked at paying people to recycle, but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead.

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Following up on my recent post on more eco-friendly was of measuring progress than GDP, I came across a recent post by renowned ecological economist Herman Daly over at the

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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

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A seasoned dumpster diver who lived without cash for a year, Mark Boyle—aka the Moneyless Man—knows more than most about getting by without money.