Resilience vs. Sustainability
In TED Blog: Transition to a world without oil: Rob Hopkins on TED.com, Rob Hopkins states And I think in many ways the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability. The idea of resilience comes from the study of ecology and it's really about how, uh, systems, settlements withstand shock from the outside -- when they encounter shock from the outside that they don't

Is Portion Control Too Much to Ask?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/ / CC BY-NC 2.0Excerpt from the article Too Much Drink Is Going Down The Drain @ TreeHugger.com:According to a new study by Wrap, a government agency, the British are throwing out £470M ($752M ) worth of wine every year. That's a lot of wine!It seems that most people can't be bothered to finish off the bottles or cartons of drinks and they don't store them in

How Do We Create a Sustainable Society?
This video, by Greg Craven, makes an excellent argument on why we should take action on global climate change, or as Craven puts it global climate destabilization. In it, he reasons that it's not really all that important whether or not global climate destabilization will occur; he's more concerned about whether or not we take action against the possibility. His comparison of this to buying car

The Dangers of Monoculture
PBS is currently airing a new documentary called The Botany of Desire, which is based on the book of the same name by Michael Pollan.* If you've missed it on TV, click here to view the entire documentary on PBS.org. [If you haven't missed it (or have just watched it online - yay, Information Age!), feel free to skip ahead a little. The beginning of this essay is explanation for the uninformed.]

Welcome to Elysian Earth!
Hi, my name is Hayley and this is my social manifesto (in a nutshell). 1. Society has problems, but no issue is completely insurmountable. 2. Communication and cooperation are the keys to progress. 3. Concern over petty matters hinders positive change. 4. Open-mindedness and flexibility are integral to finding effective, efficient, and thoughtful solutions. The aims of this blog are - to rave