The Monocle Global Quality of Life Index may one day graduate to adopt a scientific methodology that considers a larger spectrum of cities around the world, but I’m happy to settle for their current coverage and play the my-city-is-better-than-yours game, using the tidbits of quick facts they’ve compiled. For those who don’t buy [...]

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The greatest opportunity of our generation: that’s what could be waiting for us, after we leave “green” behind. Saving the biosphere and spreading sustainable prosperity is going to take a lot more than doing things in a more environmentally-conscious manner; it’s going to demand we remake much of our material civilization.
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As drylands get drier and violence grows, new crises resembling Darfur will arise.
By Jeffrey Sachs | NEWSWEEK. July 7-14, 2008 issue.
The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in impoverished regions [...]

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Oliver Tickell makes the case for controlling greenhouse gases close to the source via a groundbreaking new worldwide permits auction.
At their 2008 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, the G8 agreed that the world should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050. Setting aside the fact that we don’t know 50 percent of which year’s emissions, [...]

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The problems of water management are at the heart of an integrated crisis of global development that includes climate change and food insecurity, says Mike Muller.
The global food crisis of 2007-08 has propelled governments and international agencies into a series of emergency responses, designed both to meet the needs of desperate citizens in many of [...]

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