Putting fish and plants together in a closed loop (that's organic by necessity) strikes me as a brilliant use of biomimicry... or, at least the notion that "waste equals food" in the natural world. But can a backyard tinkerer put together an aquaponics system on the cheap?
So, might you ask, what is the Anthropocene? First, the etymology. The Ancient Greek [anthropos] means “human being” while [kainos] means “new, current.” The Anthropocene would thus be best defined as the new human-dominated period of the Earth’s history. The term was proposed in 2000 by Paul J. Crutzen, Nobel Prize in 1995 for his [...]
: TRENDING Global Warming Arctic Coal Climate Change Deniers Carbon Emissions ThinkProgress Climate Progress Climate Progress Climate Economy Health Justice LGBT Security Election Alyssa 46 Republicans Who Claim Wind PTC Is Costly' Voted To Retain Oil Tax Credits Global Oil Major Calls Arctic Offshore Drilling A Potential Disaster' Analysis : Carbon Tax Could Reduce Deficit By 1.2 Trillion In 10 Years Oxfam Warns Climate Change And Extreme Weather Will Cause Food Prices To Soar By Joe Romm on Sep 27, 2012 at 5:00 pm A report from Oxfam warns that global warming and extreme weather will combine to create devastating food price shocks in the coming . decades Oxfam had previously warned that corn or maize would see a 177 rise in price by 2030 due to climate change and other factors see 
A new report has found that one-third of the world's population is now online. Read more...
Want to study sustainability? Environmentally-themed majors are popping up at colleges and universities around the US; these five schools, though, are among the top tier for sustainability studies.
. : , : TRENDING Global Warming Arctic Coal Climate Change Deniers Carbon Emissions ThinkProgress Climate Progress Climate Progress Climate Economy Health Justice LGBT Security Election Alyssa 46 Republicans Who Claim Wind PTC Is Costly' Voted To Retain Oil Tax Credits Global Oil Major Calls Arctic Offshore Drilling A Potential Disaster' Analysis : Carbon Tax Could Reduce Deficit By 1.2 Trillion In 10 Years Sept . 27 News : USGS Finds Evidence Of Fracking Contamination In Wyoming , Backing Up EPA Findings By Stephen Lacey on Sep 27, 2012 at 8:02 am A retest of water in Pavillion , Wyoming , found evidence of many of the same gases and compounds the Environmental Protection Agency used to link contamination there to hydraulic fracturing , the first finding of that kind . Bloomberg One topic
, . : TRENDING Global Warming Arctic Coal Climate Change Deniers Carbon Emissions ThinkProgress Climate Progress Climate Progress Climate Economy Health Justice LGBT Security Election Alyssa 46 Republicans Who Claim Wind PTC Is Costly' Voted To Retain Oil Tax Credits Global Oil Major Calls Arctic Offshore Drilling A Potential Disaster' Analysis : Carbon Tax Could Reduce Deficit By 1.2 Trillion In 10 Years After Warmest 12-Months On Record , U.S . Poised To See Warmest Year Ever In 2012 By Joe Romm on Sep 26, 2012 at 5:49 pm NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center reports today that this January to August is the warmest year-to-date on record for the contiguous United States . As Climate Central shows in this chart , the U.S . will easily beat the previous record warm year , 1998 unless
How do we decrease the amount of food waste we create? How can we make better use of the food that doesn't get eaten? What opportunities are we missing along the supply chain? Sounds like good topics for a discussion... so let's discuss.
Don't have yard space for a garden? You can still grow your own vegetables and flowers indoors, and these three iPhone apps can help.
Want to build a Solarflower, the open source solar concentrator we featured a little over a year ago? Now you can: designer Daniel Connel has published tutorials for simple, cheap solar collector.
The following story came to PMC from Glendora Meikle, who holds a M.A. in Media & International Conflict from the University College, Dublin. Wangari Maathai Remembered (4/1/1940 – 9/25/2011) One year ago, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai passed away in Nairobi, after undergoing treatment for cancer. Professor Maathai was the 2004 recipient of the Nobel Peace [...]
Detroit's population continues to decline, as the US economy and birth rate continues to fall. Read more...
What's the main purpose of a community garden or other urban agriculture installation? Providing fresh food... often to neighborhoods without other outlets for it. Right? Yes... but community gardens are special places that do much more than provide space for growing food. Often, stronger connections between members of the community that garden serves grow along with the plants. Cintia Cabib's film A Community of Gardeners explores that dynamic in Washington, D.C.
Lower-tech forms of shipping could open up whole worlds of economic opportunity... and with marginal environmental impact, if done right. The creators of the Greenheart Project are trying to accomplish those goals with the development of a simply-designed, solar and sail-powered ship created specifically for use by some of the world's poorest people.
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, and now finally I have been given the opportunity to put my ideas ‘down on paper’ (seems like a bit of an old-fashioned expression these days). Now this post might strike some as overly parochial because it concerns the state in which I live, but [...]
What gets measured gets managed, right? This longstanding business maxim gets thrown around a lot in green circles: data's a necessary element of making the case that sustainability makes sense. At Orange County, California's Davis Magnet School (which focuses on math, science, and technology), measurement's already present in the curriculum; now, it's also a part of the school's efforts to determine if efficiency retrofits make sense for the district's bottom line and the students' performance.
I caught up with two of St. Louis’ most talented sustainable designers, Katie Kantley and Genny Cortinovis, on the eve of their Eco-Centric: A Green Fashion Show runway debut to find out what inspired their collections, why ‘slow fashion’ matters to them, and more.
This month, a young black bear was found in a tree outside an apartment building in Cleveland. While it makes for interesting headlines on the small scale, the competing interests of humans and animals on the global scale could spell doom for wild creatures.
An editorial from Nigeria - what do those in a country with an "exploding population" think? Read more...
Are the Falklands being used to their best advantage? In a recession, they could be an underutilised paradise with their jobs, white sandy beaches, wildlife, mountain ranges – and lack of people. The census shows that the islands have a less than 1% unemployment rate, and the average annual income of $32,213 is much higher than Argentina's $9,620 as of last year, or that of any of the Falklands' other Latin American neighbours. However, census released this month show the small population of 2,563 to have been static since 2006. Read more...
While immigration may make up for low birth rates, not everyone is happy about it in the UK. Read more...
While in transit between tropical and temperate Australia, here’s the latest batch of 6 biodiversity cartoons (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). – Filed under: biodiversity, cartoon, climate change, conservation, economics, environmental policy, logging Tagged: biodiversity, biodiversity cartoons, carbon, cartoons, climate change, deforestation, ecosystem services, environment, extinction, greenwashing
Even the United Nations, with its dire statistics about the number of babies overpopulating the earth, is now becoming worried about falling fertility rates and gender imbalance in Asia. The head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) called for countries to urgently tackle population concerns with “foresight and justice” at the Asian Population Association conference held late last month. The question will be just what the well recognised virtue, ‘justice’, means in practice. Read more...
As if to mimic the weirder and weirder weather human-caused climate disruption is cooking up for us, related science stories seem to come in floods and droughts. Yes, research trends become fashionable too (imagine a science fashion show? – but I digress…). Only yesterday, the ABC published an opinion piece on the controversies surrounding which [...]
Switzerland - another country mainly relying on immigration to fuel population growth. Read more...
The primary scientific literature on climate change spawns hundreds of debates on an array of topics. When the technical debate among experts, and the obvious uncertainties, are taken up by the media, they are typically treated as any other topic, which ends up in some people not trusting science and others exploiting the ‘debate’ for [...]
A letter to the editor in Nigeria concerning population, birth control and Western condescension. Read more...