It is National Teachers Day, a day of recognition for one of the most challenging and under appreciated professions. It is a day to stop for a moment the rush of our daily routines and recognize the degree to […]

Today, we launched the Poet Economist’s Deep Green Daily, a paper.li newspaper, compiled from curated Twitter feeds related to green and sustainable policy and technology breakthroughs. The inaugural editorial […]

We are moving through a period of global economic transition. The new economy will favor complexity over hierarchy, and work with ecosystems and civil society, to achieve a more harmonious relationship between […]

Dr. James Hansen, one of the world’s most preeminent climate scientists, explains why he must speak out about the crisis of global climate destabilization. Dr. Hansen has also become committed to the role […]

Plugging in is just the beginning. Hybrid vehicles, which still rely on gasoline to extend their range and give drivers maximum flexibility in terms of time usage, are by definition a transitional technology. […]

El Yunque is a sacred place, and the only true virgin rainforest in the US National Parks System. It is the most biodiverse place on the island of Puerto Rico and should be valued by all people across the […]

Fuel Free is a project designed to help deliver the kind of information and resources needed to focus attention on building a 100% clean energy economy. The paradigm will be zero combustion, and the ability to […]

This 30 minute course on cephalopod intelligence and physical ability details not only the unique configuration of the octopus brain—actually a system involving 9 separate brain centers, distributed neuronal […]

From Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute:

During the past two summers, Pakistan was hit with catastrophic floods. The record flooding in the late summer of 2010 was the most devastating natural […]

Today is World Water Day: more than 1.2 billion people have no access to clean, drinkable water. As much as half the world’s population struggles with little to no reliable access to clean, drinkable water. We […]

Words Against Chaos :: This display of in-motion sand art by Kseniya Simonova from the Ukraine is one of the clearest examples of how intuition and insight allow an artist to draw forth and propagate the human […]

ProjectQuipu.net :: In April of 2010, Matt Taibbi, the untiring investigative reporter, wrote in Rolling Stone the single most epic lament to emerge from the 2008 financial collapse and subsequent worldwide […]

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers …

Natalie Jeremijenko’s unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of volunteers. These real-life experiments include: Walking […]

From the Courthouse News Service:

A broken underwater wellhead has been dumping 4,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico for seven years, and neither its owner nor state or federal governments have […]

We are moving through a period of global economic transition. The new economy will favor complexity over hierarchy, and work with ecosystems and civil society, to achieve a more harmonious relationship between […]