Foundation Earth

05/02/2016

A new podcast that aims to define sustainability; one concept (and bad joke) at a time.

Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of SustainabilityDefined by Scott Breen and Jay Siegel for free.

04/07/2016

Merle Haggard & Randy H. in Jail? No, but the Calif. Highway Patrol were "escorting" us out of the Governor's office. Woody knows, he was demanding protection of redwood rainforests! We ended up saving a lot of the remaining old-growth redwoods.

03/18/2016

Update:The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a controversial bill that would have made labeling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products voluntary. The bill needed 60 votes to pass and only received 44. Opponents of the bill have referred to it as the Deny Americans the Right to Know (…

03/13/2016

David Schweickhart has rethought capitalism to better represent the workers and give them more responsibility and control

An animated look at David Schweickart's proposal for a next system, grounded in democratic worker cooperatives and built around public control of financial c...

02/27/2016

Today, on Polar Bear Day, we celebrate these gorgeous creatures. As the icecaps melt, their habitat disappears and pushes their species to the brink of extinction. We must do everything to halt climate change and save our planet.

02/25/2016

States should be free to require the labeling of genetically modified food if they want to.

02/21/2016

The new data confirm that 296,000 hectares of bushland was cleared in 2013-14 – three times as much as in 2008-09 – mainly for conversion to pastures.

Land clearing in Queensland has tripled in the past five years.

02/19/2016

Interactive chart showing high and low temperatures and precipitation for 3,116 cities around the world.

02/17/2016

Soil is so hot right now. Between the "4 per 1000 Initiative" launched by France during the COP21 conference this year...to last Sunday's New York Times article from Stephanie Strom, "Cover Crops, ...

02/16/2016

Speaking at Brookings Institute, Neel Kashkari from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis raised the need for banking regulations to change radically with the goal of ending too big to fail and reducing the chance of another financial crisis

02/12/2016

Given Greece's strong agricultural roots, many unemployed Athenians returned to their family farms during the crisis. Widely educated and cosmopolitan, these young farmers are introducing innovative ideas and sustainable practices to Greek farming traditions. Supporting them is essential for Greece's economic recovery.

Pavlos Georgiadis asks whether the food and farming industry could offer Greece a way out of the country's deep recession

02/11/2016

Republican leaders in Congress are unlikely to help enact any of President Obama’s final clean energy budget proposals. Nevertheless, the new budget plan, released yesterday, merits attention if only as a philosophical statement. While every late-term budget is to an extent rhetorical, this one is noteworthy not just for its top-line numbers but for advancing a creative new model for progress.