by Chris Hedges Truthdig (March 08 2009) All measures to thwart the degradation and destruction of our ecosystem will be useless if we do not cut population growth. By 2050, if we continue to reproduce at the current rate, the planet will have between eight billion and ten billion people, according ...

The Edo Biosphere by Thomas Daniell www.archis.org (December 19 2008) 1. Postwar Japan Japan's phoenix-like emergence out of the urban firestorms triggered by incendiary bombing campaigns during the final months of the Second World War is a story that has been told often enough. The incredible colle...

by William Blum www.killinghope.org (March 04 2009) Being serious about torture. Or not. In Cambodia they're once again endeavoring to hold trials to bring some former senior Khmer Rouge officials to justice for their 1975-79 war crimes and crimes against humanity. The current defendant in a United ...

by John Michael Greer The Archdruid Report (March 04 2009) Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised by the flurry of responses to last week's Archdruid Report post on the twilight of investment. "Men will forgive the murder...

Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain? by Michael T Klare ZNet (March 01 2009) The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But an...

by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! AlterNet (February 17 2009) Amy Goodman: An unprecedented case of judicial corruption is unfolding in Pennsylvania. Several hundred families have filed a class-action lawsuit against two former judges who have pleaded guilty to taking bribes in return for placing youth...

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future by Catherine Tumber Boston Review (March / April 2009) Growing up in a small town, I regularly took bus trips with my mom and little sister into "the city": Syracuse. Like most middle-class families in the 1960s, we had only one car, which my dad ...

Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler Comment on current events by the author of The Long Emergency (2005) www.kunstler.com (March 02 2009) Isn't that a question, though ... The Peak Oil story was never about running out of oil. It was about the collapse of complex systems in a world economy faced by t...

by Theresa Tedesco New York Times Op-Ed (February 28 2009) Toronto - Has the world turned upside down? America, the capital of capitalism, is pondering nationalizing a handful of banks. Meanwhile, Canada, whose banking system had long been notorious for its stodgy practices and government coddling, ...

Public transportation needs massive investment. Will the Obama administration step up? by Adam Doster and Kate Sheppard In These Times (February 23 2009) More than 2.5 million people live in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area and most never step foot on public transit. The city's bus system is slow and...