Sustainable Development vs. Artificial Armageddon

In 1998, after observing activities of the Christian Right in California where I was living and working, I predicted what was going to happen. And it did. I knew what they were up to, and I described them as Nazis of America. I knew that they were going to seriously...

Questioning Growth: "I Want You To Imagine A World"

""Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must." "The only thing that has actually remotely slowed down the relentless rise of carbon emissions over...

Celebrating the World Earth Day

 (The World Earth Day will be celebrated across the globe on April 22 this year) We are most inhuman in dealing with our mother earth and yet we take pride in calling ourselves human beings.  We plunder...

The boon of clean energy

What many people do not understand about clean energy is that it is a major economic boon to any country that would embrace it. The clean energy technologies - wind power, solar power, coal sequestration, hydrogen engines, sun-beam technology - are all brain-intensive,...

Health, education, and water in Nagaland, India

The Indian state of Nagaland spreads over an area of 16,527 square kilometers, bordered by Assam, to the west and north, and Burma, to the east.  Its population resides mainly in rural areas. Kohima, its...

High Potential for CDM Markets in Africa

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) program, developed under the Kyoto Protocol, is a method of combating climate change by encouraging sustainable development through market incentives.  It is essentially a...

The Global Food Crisis: A Fresh Call for Sustainable Agriculture

Babu P George, PhD The author is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Tourism Management of the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, USA. The views expressed in this essay are purely personal and need...

The Global Food Crisis: A Fresh Call for Sustainable Agriculture

Babu P. GeorgeThe author is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Tourism Management of the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, USA. The views expressed in this essay are purely personal and need not...

When a few cents make sense

"Muhammad Yunus had a great-idea, one that changed Bangladesh and won him the Nobel Peace Prize. ""Now he has an idea that he thinks could change the way business responds to social problems. His great idea is called microcredit -- making tiny loans to those who are unable to...

Global Action Foundation thanks Leonardo DiCaprio

At the recent Golden Globes, Design 21 Social Design Network gifted Allumonde rings to celebrities who designated their favorite nonprofit. Mr. DiCaprio selected Global Action Foundation. John Daniel Kelly,...

Rhetorical Question

"This is a rhetorical question, right? Is killing off big, bad wolves the best way to halt attacks? Of course it is. Killing wolves is stupid"

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