Sustain Our Earth

"Might there be more agile, dependable, and less awkward ways to conduct the public business in the long emergency that do not require authoritarian governments, the compromises and irrational messiness of politics, or even reliance on personal sacrifice?"

Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns can lead to declines in southeastern frog and salamander populations, but protecting ponds can improve their plight.

By Lizzy Davies, The Guardian

Pope Francis has hit out at unbridled capitalism and the "cult of money", calling for ethical reform of the financial system to create a more humane society.

In an impassioned appeal, the Argentinian pontiff said politicians needed to be bold in tackling the root causes of the economic crisis, which he said lay in an acceptance of money's "power over ourselves and our society".

"We have created new idols," he said in a speech in the Vatican. "The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal."

MORE:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/17/pope-francis-attacks-cult-money

Ashutosh Jogelekar has penned an interesting article in Scientific American discussing how one's political position may affect energy efficiency purchases (the post is repeated by Rod Janssen in Energy in Demand).

About two years ago, billionaire Nick Hanauer (a venture capitalist from Seattle) gave a talk at the TED conference about income and inequality in America. The...

“Let me show you the world, says Swedish academic Han Rosling as he demonstrates the dynamics of population growth, child mortality and carbon dioxide emissions. The challenge for the world is to get everyone out of extreme poverty and get the richest people to use less fossil fuels so that everyone can share their energy levels, he says.”

In case you missed the memo, climate change is happening. Luckily those of us who wish to wise up and cut down on our energy consumption can do so in style.

A huge leap in energy conservation, and undoubtedly the most innovative of all energy saving tactics has its origins in the earth itself

Une nouvelle étude analysant près de 12.000 articles de revues scientifiques professionnelles sur le réchauffement climatique vient de paraître.

On 9 June 2008, the UK's largest mass stranding event (MSE) of short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) occurred in Falmouth Bay, Cornwall. At least 26 dolphins died, and a similar number was refloated/herded back to sea.

Demand will continue to rise for infill residential development that is less car-dependent, while consumers' desire could wane for isolated development in outlying suburbs, according to a new ULI report released at the ULI Spring Meeting in San Diego. The report underscores the influence that growing demographic groups in the U.S. – in particular generation Y, African-Americans, and Latinos – will have on reshaping urban growth patterns by spurring more development of compact, mixed-use communities with reliable, convenient transit service. America in 2013,is based on a nationwide survey of 1,202 adults conducted between January 16 and February 3, 2013. It includes responses from generation Y (representing 30 percent of the total), born between 1979 and 1995 and numbering near 80 million; generation X (23 percent), born between 1966 and 1978 and totaling about 50 million; baby boomers (31 percent), born between 1947 and 1965 and numbering 75 million; war babies (12 percent), born between 1932 and 1946; and the silent generation (3 percent), born in 1931 or earlier; together war babies and the silent generation number 35 million. ...