Today, the Nile, Colorado, and Yellow Rivers no longer flow to the ocean. Where creeks and streams once ran full of life, there are now only dried veins stitched into the Earth's flesh. We are sucking dry the blood within our own bodies. We are head­ing irrevocably into a disaster.  (more)

Coca Cola's new Plant Bottle has propelled them to the top of the Sustainability Movement. Are their efforts genuine and will they be effective or is this greenwashing at a dangerous scale? (more)

The way we produce food nowadays will be replaced by other ways that don't depend on mass infusions of nonrenewable resources. What makes it difficult for many people to factor them into a sense of the future is that the alternative methods don't look like industrial agriculture at all. 

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Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the biggest religious festivals in Maharashtra. This ten-day festival to celebrate the birthday of the much-beloved elephant-headed god is a fascinating combination of piety and partying, consecration and consumerism. (more)

While media reports focus on the Gulf cleanup and BP's liability, few mention the long-term consequences of the spill. There will be a surge in cancer cases, widespread degradation of wildlife habitat, and an array of complex strains on the ecosphere as a whole. As the hurricane season unfolds, we may see the greatest ecological disaster in hundreds of years. Mycoremediation is a valuable component in our toolset of solutions. [An RS Encore Presentation]  (more)

Americans throw away nearly 100 billion pounds of food every year -- almost as much as we eat. In Dive!, filmmaker Jeremy Seifert set out to find out why supermarkets are letting perfectly edible food end up in dumpsters instead of being donated to starving people. What he discovered will shock you. (more)

I have come to think that one of the things the soon-to-be-deindustrializing world most needs just now is green wizards: individuals who are willing to take on the responsibility to learn, practice, and thoroughly master a set of unpopular but valuable skills - the skills of the old appropriate tech movement - and share them with their neighbors. (more)

I see the tragedy of the Oil Spill as an archetypal symbol of our collective shadow. Our suppression and denial of our addiction to oil--our emotional denial--cannot be ignored any longer. Our collective psyches have produced a symbol so big, so in our faces, that we cannot shove it down and suppress it. (more)