A Difficult Path to Sustainable Employment

A Difficult Path to Sustainable Employment

In a world obsessed with technology and productivity advances, how can societies provide job opportunities for everyone?

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What Is and ISN'T the Economy for?

What Is and ISN’T the Economy for?

What is and ISN’T the economy for? A new book answers these questions in a funny and engaging way.

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From Food Deserts to Healthy Cities

From Food Deserts to Healthy Cities

Cities are often structured in ways that make us sick, but with a new emphasis on green urban planning, health and sustainability are becoming reincorporated into urban plans.

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Small Farms, Hard Work, and Local Food

Small Farms, Hard Work, and Local Food

Through local Growers’ Associations, Boulder county is facilitating small-scale, often organic, food production, with many small-scale farmers contributing to the local food economy.

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How Sustainable is The Big Apple?

How Sustainable is The Big Apple?

Comparing the shiny and rotten halves of the Big Apple.

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Hot Off the Press!

Hot Off the Press!

State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity has launched! Read the first two chapters here!

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Going Solo or Going Multigenerational?

Going Solo or Going Multigenerational?

A new book suggests that living alone could be a very green option. But wouldn’t living with one’s parents, grandparents, and children be even more sustainable?

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What Does a One-planet City Look Like?

What Does a One-planet City Look Like?

Vancouver is trying to be the world’s Greenest City, but that is far from a truly sustainable city. What changes are really needed?

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The Sustainability Sweet Spot

The Sustainability Sweet Spot

What does a truly sustainable country look like? Peru maybe? Or Cuba.

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