"Responsible middle" gets no help in crisis, runs the headline in the International Herald Tribune (which I guess means the story ran first in the New York Times). The article tells the tragic tale of a certain "Zach". Zach believes in Adam Smith's idea that the common good emerges when everybody wo...

Today, AT&T made a major announcement: that it will invest more than a half-billion dollars over the next decade to purchase more than 15,000 alternative-fueled vehicles — 8,000 vans powered by compressed natural gas, and another 7,100 hybrid passenger cars. The telecommunications giant estima...

China's massive tree-planting scheme masks disastrous deforestation and damage to biodiversity thanks to the country's insatiable desire for wood Viewed from the snow-covered hills of Tangwanghe, the forests of China's Great Green Wall seem to stretch out endlessly towards the horizon. The man-made ...

It could be worse We think we have it bad here in Portland, but many cities have it much worse. According to this BLS report, Portland clocks in at 269/369 in employment rates - ahead of struggling cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Not to mention economically crippled cities Detroit and Flint. ...

The ways our food is produced, packaged and shipped stand at the center of an ongoing debate about the health of our planet and ourselves, but the key to creating a sustainable system may rely on our collective ability to accept a realistic solution as a opposed to a perfect one. And this involves a...

Chris Luebkman of Arup discusses Urban Futures and the arrival of the Ecological Age today at ETech 2009: Tokyo - a sprawl of concrete and steel.  But cities like this (and of all sizes) are for people, existing to help people thrive.  Peak urbanism - cities are seeing a decline in popul...

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Williamstown, MA - The Environmental Initiatives Committee of the First Congregational Church of Williamstown invites the public to the first in what they hope will be a series of environmental readings and discussions at 7 pm on Friday, March 20 in the Church Library. At this first meeting, they wi...

Last October, Almond, the unpretentious French bistro that's become a Bridgehampton hotspot, boldly expanded to Manhattan with an outpost in the Flatiron district. But even before the city's economy drifted into its current deep funk, chef/co-owner Jason Weiner faced a daunting task: finding a way t...