As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.
Many human civilizations have collapsed in the past, usually due to complex combinations of environmental, social and economic factors.
The most prominent signature in the global mean sea level interannual variability is caused by El Niño–Southern Oscillation, through its impact on the global water cycle.
Paleoanthropologists – scientists who study human evolution – have developed a variety of ideas concerning how environmental conditions may have stimulated long-term human evolutionary change.
In the following some real problems and what can be done about it, with the focus on cars.
In recent years, increased flooding has been a stark wake up call for people living in South Florida. Projections calculated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicate sea levels will rise 9 to 24 inches by 2060 in that vulnerable region.
Scientists think the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere from freshwater ecosystems will increase as the climate warms, triggering further warming.
Late-comers face a clear trade-off between lower short term costs and higher transitional challenges.
Garbage Warrior tells the epic story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living.
