By James Trimarco — 2010
Researcher Paul Stamets says mushrooms can eat oil spills and rid the world of toxics–and he’s got proof.
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The long-term needs of ecosystems should come before our knee-jerk expectations about infrastructure.
The campaign to preserve half the Earth’s surface is being criticized for failing to take account of global inequality and human needs. But such protection is essential not just for nature, but also for creating a world that can improve the lives of the poor and disadvantaged.
In this interview, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a university professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, talks with the Bulletin’s Elisabeth Eaves about Islam and the environment.
Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. “Silent Spring” presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT...
“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable.
If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.
A presentation by Riane Eisler at the U.N. General Assembly in April 2011.
The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities.
Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature.
Forests were central to Tagore’s works, just as they have been for India’s creative expression through centuries, writes Vandana Shiva.