In Tanzania more frequent droughts and changing rainfall patterns are forcing subsistence farmers to adapt Farmers need only survey their parched fields during the ever-intensifying dry seas... Read more
To make a world that can support all the people that want to live on it and use its resources, we need businesses to take a strong role in finding new ways to account for more than ju... Read more
Paul Krugman has recently taken a keen interest in the rise of robots and automation — an issue that I have been focusing on since the publication of my book on this subject back in 2009. In... Read more
The Happy Planet Index does away with GDP in favor of a formula that includes happiness and personal well-being. It upends what you think of as successful countries. What is economic success... Read more
Can we devise strategies to maximize the upside of technology while minimizing the downside? We’re entering a new age in which countries, cities, corporations, and online communities all com... Read more
The Inclusive Wealth Indicator India and Brazil have had explosive growth over the last decade. Or have they? A new measurement of the true wealth of nations finds that what countries give u... Read more
It’s a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we’ll either have to put the brakes on economic growth or transform the way the world’s economies work. Th... Read more
“People and the Planet” During the 352-year life span of the Royal Society, the human population has risen from less than one billion people to seven billion and counting. That boom has been... Read more
Our economy is based on domination, not collaboration. If we’re going to stop burning through all our resources, that will need to change. Before making something new, a smart designer needs... Read more
Turning Germany into a massive energy laboratory As it phases out nuclear power in wake of public outcry, Germany to make largest investment since World War II Spurred by a public outcry fol... Read more
Since the dawn of time, nature has been working hard, engineering everyone and everything to the highest standards on Earth. Dragonflies that can propel themselves in any direction, sharks w... Read more
And this downturn offers an excellent opportunity to get rid of one that has long outlived its usefulness: gross domestic product. Read more
Image via Wikipedia Slashdot points us to an interview with Andre Geim, who won this year’s Nobel Prize for physics for his work on graphene. As part of the interview, they asked him a... Read more