AFRICA Strategies to stop Sahel starvation Last year the world rocked to Live Aid concerts, and the Make Poverty History Movement celebrated developed countries’ fresh commitments to alleviate the p...

Utne Reader, a national magazine that celebrates the best of the independent press by reading and reprinting from 1,500 independent magazines, newsletters, blogs, and other publications, recently anno...

The enclosure of the commons began several centuries ago in Europe, and alas, continues there in the 21st. This time the object of enclosure isnt land, but the carbon absorption capacity of the atmos...

CO2, poverty, and biodiversity

Genetically engineered trees threaten forests and communities

Kyle Macdonald

A recovery model for our oil addiction

Alaska's cruise ship ballot measure sails to victory

When industrial agriculture goes bad

Day camp offers life skills in AIDS fight

“If there isn’t green, there isn’t life,” says Luz Dary Ayala. Ayala is one of the inhabitants of Ciudád Bolivar who is trying to revitalize this impoverished neighborhood of ...

German dolphin defender turns 85

Wilderness is both a bureaucratic designation for public lands in the US and an ideal for future protections of our national heritage. The Wilderness Act of 1964 remains an incredible promise to the w...

After hundreds of hours of fieldwork, writing, and the final nervous defense, most thesis papers are filed neatly away in university libraries, never to be seen again. The information they contain rar...

Imagine a farm that requires no fertilizer, irrigation, pesticides, or tractor cultivation, and produces highly nutritious, tasty foods. The farm we’re imagining maintains healthy soil, doesn...

“Politicians Sweep Midterm Elections,” read the headline on The Onion‘s Web site on November 8. Given the rightful joy with which progressive activists greeted the results of the mid...

“In the remote Yaqara Valley of Viti Levu, at the very edge of a primitive rainforest, lies a vast artesian aquifer, a huge volcanic chamber confined by the rock walls of an ancient crater. This...

David Helvarg, Inner Ocean Press, 2006, $12.95 (paper) These days, a lot of people understand that pouring used motor oil or other chemicals into a storm drain has a direct and deleterious effect on t...