Articles & Reports

FEB 13, 2012 • Article

The outrage over Egypt's arrest of 43 NGO workers, at least 16 of whom are American, is understandable and well deserved. But it also speaks to a ...

FEB 8, 2012 • Article

Can the recent eruption of protests be interpreted as a single phenomenon, even though spread out across great distances and separated by barriers of language ...

FEB 7, 2012 • Article

We've developed an understanding of "sustainability" that indicates that we can "switch" to something else and be okay, but the hard truth that no politician ...

FEB 7, 2012 • Article

Third world countries pose a unique challenge; how to keep up with the world's environmental changes while still taking care of people living below the ...

FEB 7, 2012 • Article

Sustainability is often associated with exclusively material concepts. Yet it's crucial to note that sustainability plays a critical role in relationships. The actual subject in ...

FEB 7, 2012 • Article

"What is an ecologically sustainable community? How do we facilitate the evolution of such communities? Can we bring the mass of our consumer culture-driven population ...

FEB 7, 2012 • Article

Our conventional understanding of sustainability usually puts human needs first.  What is needed is a balancing test that will consider a wider range of factors, ...

FEB 7, 2012 • Article

My students are always shocked to realize that the global environment is one interconnected system. We have only one ocean mass, one land, and one ...

FEB 3, 2012 • Article

David Speedie examines Russia's position on Iran; the upcoming Russian elections, including the Moscow demonstrations and the West's attitude towards them;and Jackson-Vanik and U....

JAN 18, 2012 • Article

The November 2011 elections were a historic opportunity to begin rebuilding the fragile DRC state. But as this first-hand account shows, evidence suggests that power politics ...