Environment

Activism | Citizens United | Water

Communities Take Power

Communities across the country are declaring citizens' right and duty to protect their water, land, local economy, and way of life, even if it means taking on the enormous power of corporations. Here are some of the peaceful revolutionaries who have stepped up.
Doug Pibel    |   Jul 30, 2007
Renewable energy

Making it Last

Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She’s still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more sustainable path to prosperity.
Hunter Lovins    |   Aug 11, 2004
Local power | Water

The Lake And the ‘hood

Mono Lake activists fought a 16-year David-versus-Goliath battle against the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) to stop water diversions to Los Angeles. Yet the rural community and the city have emerged from the fray as watershed partners.
Jane Braxton Little    |   Jan 1, 2004
Water

The Battle For Water

Waste, pollution, population growth, global trade rules, and now privatization are threatening billions of people with water scarcity. How can we reclaim water for all life?
Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke    |   Jan 1, 2004

Surviving the Great Dying

As an era of extinctions unfolds, the dawning understanding of its links to our own health could energize a movement to save us all
Michael Lerner    |   Apr 1, 2003

Health Hunger And Hunting

a story of a vegetarian who learned how to hunt on his land. He developed his own personal ecology, which included eating locally and responsible hunting.
Jim Minick    |   Apr 1, 2003

What Is Real Security

what is real security? The answer may be found by basing engineering on nature. Natural systems are efficient, diverse, dispersed, and renewable, hence, inherently resilient.
Amory B. Lovins, Hunter Lovins    |   Feb 1, 2002
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Renewable energy | Local power

Where There’s a Way

Where there's a way, by Michael M’Gonigle. Global Trade Agreements are just the latest way local communities are losing control over the surrounding forests and the watersheds. If there was a way to reclaim the commons, might there also be a political will?
Michael M'Gonigle    |   Jul 1, 2001
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A Tribute to Donella Meadows

A Tribute to Donella Meadows, by Fran Korten. Donnella Meadows is remembered as a woman dedicated to helping us learn to live within the limits to growth.
Fran Korten    |   Jul 1, 2001

Thirst For Justice

Thirst for Justice, by Maude Barlow. Privatization of Bolivia's water supply fails in the face of protest, and a local coallition takes on water distribution.
Maude Barlow    |   Jul 1, 2001

Right Livelihood

Is the work we are doing good for the Earth and its inhabitants now and for seven generations into the future?
Matthew Fox    |   Apr 1, 2001
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Song of the Land

Mohave Creation Song cycle describes relation of the Mohave to their land and helps prevent Ward Valley from becoming a nuclear waste dump.
Philip M. Klasky    |   Oct 1, 2000

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