Local Futures — Economics of Happiness

In 2023 the United Nations’ authority on water warned that a global water crisis was imminent. For many communities, this crisis is…

Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there are new causes for alarm. Floods, heat waves and…

World Celebration Days are ways to highlight a cause, to collectively focus and bring important ideas to public attention at the community…

In Ladakh and elsewhere in India, the built environment is increasingly dominated by structures that required unsustainable construction…

I don’t know why exactly we gravitate to certain writers or thinkers, not just as convenient citations we drop here and there, maybe to…

In the ‘green economy,’ the interests of corporations, governments and the conservation industry intersect. All of these entities, in one…

With growing news of war and conflict, ecological and climate catastrophe, stark inequalities, health crises related to both poverty and…

For more than 150 years, from the rural South to northern cities, Black people have used farming to build self-determined communities and…

Please say no to Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals and seek out inspiration instead.

The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half-century…

In December of 2019, my best friend Kit took me and my partner to the place where she grew up, in the remote Thora Valley, in the pristine…