As Iceland’s erupting volcano strands thousands of air travelers across Europe and worldwide, a less publicized but arguably more costly catastrophe is mounting 15,000 miles away: piles of gourmet produce and cut flowers, some of Kenya’s chief exports,... 

“A thief who tells a judge he is stealing less than before will receive no leniency. So why do companies get environmental awards for polluting less – even though they are still polluting?”. Gunther Pauli is scornful in his new book... 

  The Myth of Self-Reliance: On the pages of most of us Post-Civ bloggers you’ll find exhortations for a return to a community-based society and economy, one based on principles of self-reliance. But Toby Hemenway makes a compelling argument that... 

Bioacoustician Bernie Krause has recorded the amazingly rhythmic vascular systems of thirsty trees:  listen He discovered that the cells in the xylem and phloem of the tree fill with air to try to maintain the osmotic pressure that’s usually produced... 

Plastics in the World of Tomorrow – Plastics in the World of Today. I grew up in Leominster, the alleged ‘birthplace’ of plastics. My father started one of the first recycling businesses there from nothing and made a killing during the... 

Carnegie Institution researchers say coral reefs are overwhelmed by the effects of climate change, and may “disintegrate before the end of the century as rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere make the oceans more acidic.” (via Al...