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The toll of global warming is wreaking tremendous havoc, with the TV news sounding like excerpts from the Book of Revelation.

Popular participation, social ideals and ecological sustainability are key attributes of sustainable systems, Claire Fauset writes.

"When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, his vision was for information to be shared easily across the internet, for anyone to be able to access. His decision to make the underlying code available on a royalty-free basis, forever, stimulated an unprecedented wave of innovation and collaboration around the world. The Web facilitated cooperation and openness as it had never been seen before, between individuals, communities, businesses and governments."

Economic growth is tearing the planet apart, and new research suggests that it can’t be reconciled with sustainability

In the wake of the Paris climate talks, Local Futures has released a 16-page action paper entitled Climate Change or System Change? In this paper we argue that globalization – that is, the deregulation of trade and finance through an ongoing series of “free trade” treaties – is the driving force behind climate change.  As …

COP21 in Paris is over. Now it’s back to the hard work of fighting for, and implementing, the energy transition.

By temporarily freezing the rule, the high court’s order raises fears that the centerpiece of the president’s clean power plan could be overturned

The risk assessment posits that just three disasters in close succession could lead to global food shortages, riots and political instability.

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The climate is becoming dangerously imbalanced due to human interference, and the choices we make in the next two years will determine our future. Now is our moment, before climate disruption becomes irreversible, to stand up for the safety and wellbeing of people – at home and around the world.

In a landmark decision, Judge Hill declared “[the youths’] very survival depends upon the will of their elders to act now, decisively and unequivocally, to stem the tide of global warming…before doing so becomes first too costly and then too late.” Highlighting inextricable relationships between navigable waters and the atmosphere, and finding that separating the two is “nonsensical,” the judge found the public trust doctrine mandates that the state act through its designated agency “to protect what it holds in trust.” The court confirmed what the Washington youth and youth across the nation have been arguing in courts of law, that “[t]he state has a constitutional obligation to protect the public’s interest in natural resources held in trust for the common benefit of the people.”