“The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology.” — Rachel Carson Ecologists today must ask a difficult question: Are we succeeding? Is the human enterprise changing quickly...

“Nature is the first ethical teacher of humanity.” — Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer. Sometimes, while advocating for ecology and peace, I spend too much time with books and computer screens and not enough time with...

“If you don’t have some appreciation of the economy as being embedded in the natural systems of the planet, you’re not going to get very far understanding why we’ve got the problems we have with the environment, and how we’re going to...

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” — Martin Luther. In January, the bankers and corporate executives at the World Economic...

World  governments, the public, and the UN now recognize that the human population number matters in achieving ecological sustainability for human communities. For forty years, since the first United Nations environment meeting in...

Corporations look to plunder Earth’s polar resources The World’s multinational corporations face an unrelenting problem. Resource extraction has met Earth’s limits. The great fortunes of history were made by plundering resources,...