There’s mounting evidence that whales and dolphins, among the few mammals who can recognize themselves in the mirror, possess a sense of self similar to our own.
This has spurred scientists and philosophers to urge additional protections for these…
2010
Chicago’s city motto–urbs in horto–means “city in a garden,” but there’s much more city than garden these days, with urban detritus and suburban sprawl ranging mile upon mile out to the cornfields.
If migratory birds are to survive, a new study…
Public transit makes property owners and developers rich, according to urban planner Christopher B. Leinberger, so property owners and developers should finance it.
With the suburbs in retreat, and with the cost of car ownership now consuming a…
The latest edition of the Harper’s Index will tell you the percentage of all U.S. stimulus funds for renewable energy that have gone to foreign companies since last September: 79.
But it won’t tell you why.
That you must wonder. But before you…
Maybe “Waterworld” wasn’t a complete waste. While Costner was making that watery flop he began paying scientists to develop an idea for cleaning up oil spills — a large-scale centrifuge that can separate oil from sea water, saving the oil in tanks…
Rand Paul isn’t just a Tea Party favorite, he’s a likely senator from a coal state who hasn’t hesitated to abuse the Environmental Protection Agency in order to turn voters’ fear to his political advantage.
He’s now the Republican nominee for the…
Flocks of environmentalists and economists will alight in Vancouver this evening for a weekend of striving toward a more sensible capitalism.
The De-Growth conference hopes to achieve a “viable economic, social and ecological system” that’s kinder to…
With startling consistency, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) withdrew his support for the climate bill that will bear his name for a third time this weekend, and then reportedly, for a third time, reconsidered.
In mid-December Graham announced he would…
It’s Earth Day, and I should join the green media in writing about the big climate bill that’s coming down the pipe. But I find myself interminably distracted by Lewis Lapham’s latest.
Lapham links the New Puritanism to the commodification of sex,…
Diplomats from the 17 largest economies are meeting behind closed doors for a second day today in Washington D.C. to work out their differences on climate change. As the name suggests–the Major Economies Forum–all the major players are there: the…
