Tetsunari Iida has a radical but straightforward idea — that Japan can go 100% renewable. He has been anti-nuclear and pro-renewable energy for decades. In order to take this idea forward he was ...

I first heard about Alex Epstein’s book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels via an unsurprisingly fawning review over at the SkeptEco blog. Its premise is so ludicrous that normally I wouldn’t read it, ...

The pursuit of happiness, human development and the environment are intertwined in two profound ways. First, we developed from hunters and gatherers into urbanites during a period of remarkable and ...

The United Nations General Assembly has declared that 2012 is the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. The resolution was passed in August 2011 and may in part have been influenced by ...

Europe will enforce the world’s first continent-wide ban on widely used insecticides alleged to cause serious harm to bees, after a European commission vote on Monday. The suspension is a landmark ...

“As best we can tell, the politics of the venture capital elite boils down to fending off higher taxes, keeping labour costs low and reducing the ‘burden’ of government regulation. … Silicon Valley ...

What is good, clean and fair, and doesn’t cost the Earth? The answer is ‘Slow Food’, according to a growing number of people worldwide. The Slow Food movement originated in Italy in 1989 as a response ...

In Ghana, a country burgeoning with traffic congestion, increasing economic growth, and a stark urban-rural divide, making frames of bicycles out of bamboo could be the key to promoting sustainable ...

In the Doge’s Palace in Venice, outside of the entrance to the Chamber of the Great Council, hangs a work of art entitled “The Last Judgment” that was painted by Palma Giovane in 1595. As they waited ...

Ever since the Schengen visa regime was introduced in southern Europe in 1991, which interrupted relatively free trans-Mediterranean movement, migrants and border patrollers have been involved in a ...

Yu Kojima is an Expert on Migration Women and Mobility Asia for the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) in Barcelona, Spain. As a gender, migration and ...

The environmental and nutrient impact of our food choices had been on my mind for several weeks when a year-old article in the Telegraph recently came to my attention, prompting me to assemble the ...