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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Ian Wilker
Social Technologies and the Environment: Has Big Coal Met Its Match?
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January 19, 2009: We are living in the middle of a remarkable increase in our ability to share, to cooperate with one another, and to take collective action, all outside the framework of traditional institutions and organizations.… By making... read more >
Will Large Institutional Investors Green Their Portfolios?
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November 29, 2008: Two years ago, OnEarth ran an interesting article and podcast on socially responsible investing. Remembrance of those pieces quickened my interest in an article in yesterday's New York Times on green investment funds; the... read more >
Around the Web: Tar Sands Oil and "Climate Change Pact" Don't Mix
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November 10, 2008: Clearly there's no rest for the weary victors of the long presidential campaign. What seems like thousands of interest groups are jockeying for position on the new administration's agenda, evoking nothing somuch as a cloud... read more >
Big Boxes, Reborn
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October 22, 2008: In any ecosystem, species either evolve or vanish. And in some parts of the country, shuttered malls are mutating into developments rarely seen in suburbia: compact, well-planned, walkable communities with a dense mix of... read more >
Concrete Canyons, Hanging Gardens: Patrick Blanc's Green Walls
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October 15, 2008: With the exception of a few indispensable classics I'm not the type to acquire stacks of large-format coffee-table books, but a just-released tome from French botanist and landscape designer Patrick Blanc is now item #1 on... read more >
Leopold’s Land Ethic, Codified into Constitutional Law?
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September 29, 2008: Two years into leftist president Rafael Correa's term, Ecuadoreans are today voting on whether to adopt a new constitution that reflects Correa's ambitious agenda. If enacted -- and all signs are that it will be -- the 444-... read more >
Are We Really Going to Ride Fossil Fuels to the Bitter End?
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September 22, 2008: Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk -- who a year ago gave OnEarth Canada's Highway to Hell, a memorably sharp portrait of the abomination that is Alberta's sprawling tar-sands oil field -- has a full-length book coming out next... read more >
Guest Blogger: Journalist Joseph D'Agnese on the Battle for Wind
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September 3, 2008: Joseph D'Agnese, who writes about all things scientific for such publications as Discover, Seed, and Wired, authored the cover story of OnEarth's Summer 2007 issue, a report on Upstate New York's burgeoning, homegrown wind-... read more >
OnEarth's Fall 2008 issue, now live on the "read/write" Web.
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August 31, 2008: I opened up my mailbox yesterday to find the new issue of OnEarth Magazine, its soy-based inks still hot off the proverbial press. "Happy day!" thought I. If past experience was guide, I held in my hands a pile of... read more >
A Feel-Good Tale: Terracycle's "Bottle Brigades"
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August 26, 2008: Thought I'd start the week off with reason for optimism: the bold big-think energy of TerraCycle, a start-up that might make a triple-bottom-line capitalist out of an unrepentant marxist. TerraCycle makes good-quality... read more >
Ian Wilker
Writer, editor, online communications consultant, social media coach, dad, birder/naturalist, future starting shooting guard for the New York Knicks. (The dream dies hard.)
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