Sustainability

News junkie? Environmentalist? Even semi-enviro, or part junkie? This is the site for you. Cutting edge news on how global warming and other enviro diasters/successes are playing out around the world.

This is the group that won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore in December 2007 "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” Reports, graphics and speeches, including the most recent, definitive assessment of climate changes.

The Right-to-Know Network provides free access to numerous databases and resources on the environment. With the information available on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects; find permits issued under environmental statutes; and identify civil cases filed.

Committed to living sustainably? Recognize the name Donella (Dana) Meadows? If not, you'll want to spend some time at this site. Their philosophy: "...unsustainability does not arise out of ignorance, irrationality or greed. It is largely the collective consequence of rational, well-intended decisions made by people caught up in systems – ranging from families and communities to corporations, governments and economies – that make it difficult or impossible to act in ways that are fully responsible to all those affected in the present and to future generations."

Founder Donella Meadows (1941-2001, born in Illinois, a fellow midwesterner) also wrote a Pulitzer-nominated column, the Global Citizen, which offered news commentary from a systems point of view.