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Introduction to Water Wars1 comment

pizzapelsa wrote 2 months ago: Here are some public, usable resources for reading up on the current global water crisis: Wikipedia … more →

Tags: General, Key Concepts, Natural resources, broad strokes, water, Global Water Crisis

Def.: "The Tragedy of the Commons"5 comments

pizzapelsa wrote 2 months ago: A key phrase for those interested in economy and ecology, coined by Garrett Hardin in 1968 – r … more →

Tags: Key Concepts, broad strokes, commons, Terms, Garrett Hardin, water, Global Water Crisis

Browsing for Earth Day

bookgoddess wrote 2 months ago: I don’t know if this has occurred to you, but using your public library is one of the greenest … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, West Palm Beach Public Library, Public libraries, Book Floor, Holidays, Go Green!, Earth Day, Green Living

Shrink to Fit1 comment

ilmostro3 wrote 3 months ago: Can a growing company ever be ‘sustainable’? We’ve all read the Brundtland Commission definition, bu … more →

Tags: CR, Corporate Responsibility, sustainability, Citizenship, the guardian, sustainable consumption, Sustainable Growth, Tesco, G20

Don't Judge a Book By Its Title

Dan Farber wrote 4 months ago: Some months ago, the publisher sent me a free copy of a book by Fred Pearce, Confessions of an Ec … more →

Tags: Academia, Literature, Green Living, Personal Consumption, Globalism, Environmental Footprint, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner

84-year old woman gets the ride of her life for her birthday

allpositivenews wrote 4 months ago: What do you get an 84-year-old lady for her birthday? That’s what Carol Brown was thinking a … more →

Tags: Love, Charity, Inspirational, Good Deed, Family, elderly, health, Cancer, senior citizen

Coal Industry Tries to Hide Dirty Facts Behind 'Clean' Claims

rogerhollander wrote 4 months ago: Fred Pearce, www.guardian.co.uk, March 5, 2009 Misleading and duplicitous ads on ‘clean coal … more →

Tags: Environment, advertising, Australia, Carbon, carbon dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Clean coal, climate change, Coal

Greenwash: High Price for Greener Bus Travel

Tracey Smith wrote 4 months ago: The Guardian, Fred Pearce: Efforts by Stagecoach to green its bus services mean nothing unless it sl … more →

Tags: Green News, Green Comment, the guardian, Stagecoach, Bus Travel, carbon free bus service

Favorite Reads in 20084 comments

zak wrote 7 months ago: photo by moriza I try to read about 50 books a year.  Sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less.  … more →

Tags: Books, Allegra Goodman, Bill Folman, christian nation, Cristina Page, Culture, Drought, Favorite Books, Fiction

What I am reading today: 10/10/08

phwebnet wrote 9 months ago: I’ve found myself reading non-fiction books over the past six months — geology books, bo … more →

Tags: America (USA), Books, Earth system, Economy, Planet Earth, place, Politics, Process, Reading

Ignorant Commentators, Aggrieved Boffins and Salaried Liars10 comments

apophaticattic wrote 10 months ago: I am reading Fred Pearce’s the Last Generation at the moment, and it’s great.  Like Bill … more →

Tags: Politics, Religion, climate change, The Last Generation, Books, Bill Bryson, Climate Change Sceptics, a Short History of Almost Everything, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Waterblogged.info's summer reading list! Part 12 comments

Jared Simpson wrote 1 year ago: All titles are linked to Powell’s Books of Portland, Oregon. Powell’s listings have a sy … more →

Tags: great lakes, American Rivers, Southeast drought, Florida, Cynthia Barnett, The Hooch, Jeffrey Rothfeder, Peter Annin, Tennessee Georgia Water War

Desalination back in the day

Jared Simpson wrote 1 year ago: Introductory articles about desalination invariably point out that simple schemes for desalting seaw … more →

Tags: Desalination, Environmental Destruction, global water problems, privatization, technology, solar distillation, Alexander Trevi

When the rivers run dry - review3 comments

thenextwavefutures wrote 2 years ago: Fred Pearce is a reporter (for New Scientist, among others) and When The Rivers Run Dry is a reporte … more →

Tags: sustainability, Trends, Environment, Economics, Business, poverty, Books, water, Biodiversity


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