George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. October 2, 2009. It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It isn't population; it's consumption. It's not sex; it's money. It's not the poor; it's the rich.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 19, 2009. The greenest technology available to us may not be solar panels, but instead contraception, according to a new report.
Matt Leonard, Earth Island Journal. June 10, 2009. "Any child I had would have been raised here and would consume (despite my best efforts) far more resources than I am comfortable accepting."
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. April 14, 2009. Let's challenge the convenient notion that "over-consumers" in rich countries can blame "over-breeders" in distant lands.
Gwen Schantz, AlterNet. December 23, 2008. Forced to pinch pennies, Americans are finding clever ways to cut back. A break in the consumption cycle may be a good thing in the long run.
Andrew Simms, Joe Smith, YES! Magazine. December 17, 2008. What if you woke up one day to find that humans eventually did make the right decisions, and the world turned out to be a pretty cool place.
Stan Cox, CounterPunch. November 29, 2008. Christmas after Christmas, polls show that clothing, the most popular present among givers, is ranked as the 'most disappointing gift.'
Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Huffington Post. November 17, 2008. We must restructure our economy from a foundation built on consumption to regeneration and maintenance.
James Gustave Speth, Yale Environment 360. October 21, 2008. Environmental groups have grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to go downhill. Why?
Paul & Anne Ehrlich, Yale Environment 360. August 7, 2008. An equitable and humane solution to overpopulation and overconsumption may actually be possible.
Kerry Trueman, Huffington Post. February 14, 2008. We may find the idea of insects as livestock disgusting, but could a bug farm possibly be any more foul than our fetid feedlots?
George Monbiot, Comment Is Free. January 31, 2008. Some blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources, but the wealthy West takes the lion's share.
Lakshmi Chaudhry, TheNation.com. November 17, 2007. The crass commodification of Latina traditions and rites of passage is disintegrating the familial and communal relationships they are meant to celebrate.
Clayton Dach, Adbusters. October 3, 2007. Whether by choice or harsh necessity, those who came of age during the Great Depression might have a thing or two to teach us about being green.
David Morris, AlterNet. September 11, 2007. Those who say eating local is not always the best choice for the planet are forgetting one very important part of the equation: community.
Alan Bisbort, Smirking Chimp. June 5, 2007. Americans make the biggest environmental footprint on the planet but we have hundreds of excuses for never changing our behavior. Number one is that we are Americans.
G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Christian Science Monitor. March 7, 2007. Americans have been spending more than they save for nearly two years, and 2006 was the worst year for saving since 1933. To turn it around, experts say, know your weaknesses.
Jason Mark, Kevin Danaher, Grist.org. February 20, 2007. Can Americans retain their bad habits of overconsumption but simply switch to earth-friendly products? In truth, we are not going to spend our way out of a social and ecological crisis 500 years in the making.
Michael T. Klare, Foreign Policy in Focus. December 7, 2006. We're closer than we think to an age when gasoline becomes a luxury and restaurant meals become unattainable.
