Elise H. Golan is the Director for Sustainable Development for USDA. In this role, she provides leadership in planning, coordinating, and analyzing the Department's various…
Sustainable development
Like many entrepreneurs, I started my business for the freedom it gave me to do things my own way. I was more individualistic than cooperative…
How are you today? This stupid question, no matter how well meaning it may be, always presumes that you should be happy. Even when it…
“Sustainable development” is a claim to virtue. The word “development” used in this sense is a lie. The word “develop” means “to grow,” “to progress,”…
Jeffrey Smith Internationally renowned anti-GMO author/filmmaker Jeffrey Smith's meticulous research documents how biotech companies continue to mislead legislators and safety officials to put the health…
Humanity stands at a precipice. Merely 200 years of the age of fossil fuel has driven species and biodiversity to extinction, destroyed our soils, depleted…
Mike and Guy interviewed Gail "the Actuary" Tverberg for her well-informed perspective on economic collapse. We included on an extensive climate-change update and comments about…
The U.N. headlined, “Ban Ki-moon (UN Secretary-General) and Peter Maurer (ICRC) on the world’s humanitarian crises – Media Stakeout (Geneva, 31 October 2015).” The 23-minute news-conference video…
One of the long standing patterns in economies showing economic growth is longer life spans, and falls are see the result of severe distress and…
At the end of November, delegations from nearly 200 countries will convene in Paris for what is billed as the most important climate meeting ever…
There are physical limits to growth on a finite planet. In 1972, the Club of Rome issued their groundbreaking report—Limits to Growth (twelve million copies…
The UN Sustainable Development Summit last week projected a new set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the next 15 years to replace the…