Like most countries through world history, Brazil is modernizing though the intensive mining of its natural resources. The United States did this. Russia/USSR did this. Australia, Canada, etc. Britain and France did so through mining the resources of their Asian and African colonies. China is...
environment
Before I retire from teaching, I wonder if I'll be able to teach a course called "Lost Environments," where I tell students about what were once coastal ecosystems that are.
Americans' have shaped narratives to make the Founding Fathers fit any number of political ideologies since at least the 1830s. It is a national passion to build connections between one's.
In a beautifully produced book from University of North Carolina Press, Stanley Riggs and his associates review what they call "The Battle for North Carolina's Coast." By this, they mean the constant struggle to maintain the Outer Banks against threats including climate change, rising sea...
While the nation's attention has been focused on Occupy Wall Street, Jane Mayer wonders whether the really important American political movement of 2011 has not actually been the Bill McKibben.
A bit of an older piece now, but Ian Angus and Simon Butler provide some real solid evidence to a point I have made repeatedly--that overpopulation is far from the.
Who could have guessed that energy companies would wildly exaggerate the economic benefit pipelines bring to local communities! Here are the tax dollar promises TransCanada promised South Dakota counties and what they are actually paying: Marshall County: $937,804.50 promised; $286,280.98 actually paid; Clark County: $1,369,565,98...
While the nation plunges ahead with fracking, it's worth reminding ourselves of the inconsistent enforcement of existing environmental regulations. That so much of the enforcement resides with the states combines.
I think every environmentalist is ecstatic to see the Obama Administration pull back on approving the Keystone XL pipeline, ordering it back into review at the State Department. Essentially, the.
That was the mantra of the environmental movement in the 1970s and 1980s when we as a nation learned not to litter and that we shouldn't throw everything away. Of course, we still aren't very good at it (and see Coca-Cola vetoing the National Park...
Environmental groups are going to an old playbook in order to stop the Keystone XL pipeline: find an endangered species and sue the government to stop development. The classic example.
When Steve Jobs met with President Obama in 2010, Jobs told the president that he would only get one term: You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he told Obama at.