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EcoIntellingence.com is a portal and guide to articles and related documents (including interviews, book and anthology excerpts, and speech transcripts) covering a wide range of environmental and sustainability-related topics. Many leading thinkers and advocates are included who are available as event speakers from EcoSpeakers.com. Beyond offering a way of previewing speakers' thinking and expertise, this site is intended to be useful for educational and training uses in schools, universities, and professional development programs.

Sustainability

Promise Ahead: Is Humanity Growing Up? By Duane Elgin. A breathtaking view of the future relevant to anyone seeking to navigate through our profoundly changing world. From an insightful and inspiring book Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future. The sequel to Elgin's bestselling 1981 classic Voluntary Simplicity. Excerpt >> More about Duane Elgin >>

Sustainable Business & Green Economics

Restructuring the Global Economy. By Lester R. Brown. In a speech to a Commonwealth Club event at Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, California, Brown describes the need to restructure the global economy to cope with the challenges ahead. Speech Excerpt >> More about Lester Brown >>

What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Lessons from Nature. By Tachi Kiuchi and Bill Shireman. From What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Principles For The New Economy, this book excerpt shows that the old model of business - the machine model that pitted business against nature - is growing obsolete. In the emerging economy, businesses excel when they emulate what they once sought to conquer. They maximize performance as they become like nature, like a complex living system. Excerpt >> More about Tachi Kiuchi and Bill Shireman >>

Environmental Stewardship Vs. Economic Development. By Walter McGuire. In the long term, the economy and the environment are inextricably linked. Our problems are that today's economy depends heavily on the availability and cost of resources, and that we have built an economy that values resource consumption rather than stewardship. Article >> More about Walter McGuire >>

Sustainable Communities

Green Jobs Growing In Your Home Town Government. By Melissa Everett. More and more environmental protection decisions are being made at the local level, from land protection to transportation policy to industrial development. As a result, local governments are employing recycling coordinators, bike trail developers, water conservation educators, planners, and many others. Article >> More about Melissa Everett >>

Sustainable Lifestyles

Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World. By Linda Breen Pierce. From Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World, this book excerpt goes beyond why and how to simplify your life to describe what has really happened in the lives of people who have done it. How does simplicity translate into our modern day-to-day world? Can people who embrace this lifestyle sustain it over time? Excerpt >> More about Linda Breen Pierce >>

Dissatisfaction Guaranteed. By Dave Wann. Excerpted from Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries, the book uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done-to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment-by the obsessive quest for material gain. Excerpt >> More about Dave Wann >>

Politics & Sustainability

How Energy Issues Affected 2004 Race For President. With Roger Ballentine, John Kerry for President campaign advisor, interviewed in 2005 by Brian Stempeck of E&ETV, a division of E&E Publishing, on how energy issues affected the 2004 race for President of the Unites States. Interview >> More about Roger Ballentine >>

Energy

Clean Cars: Kicking America's Oil Habit. By Roger Ballentine and Jan Mazurek. Summarizes a policy report produced by the Progressive Policy Institute describing the key obstacles that political leaders must surmount to make real progress toward energy independence. Summary >> Full Report >> More about Roger Ballentine >>

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Global Warming

Tailpipe Revolution. By Roger Ballentine and Jan Mazurek. Why instead of haggling over CAFE standards and a distant hydrogen future we should use strong market incentives (such as tailpipe emissions trading) to put more clean cars on the road today. Article >> More about Roger Ballentine >>

Land Use

Creating Livable 21st Century Cities (Part 1). By Karen Walz. This four part series by urban planner Karen Walz explores the elements that make cities livable and sustainable. Part 1 >> Part 2 >> Part 3 >> Part 4 >> More about Karen Walz >>

Water Resources

Damn the Torpedoes & Torpedo the Dams. By Rob Caughlan. Four hundred miles of California's fabulous beaches are starving for sand, but surfers and other beach lovers have the muscle to bring them back. "We know why they're starving and shrinking, and we know how to rescue them." Article >> More about Rob Caughlan >>

Are Marine Mammals the New Canaries? Pollution Targets the Immune System. By Michael Castleman. In the Baltic sea during early 1988, more than half of the harbor seals - some 25,000 animals - suddenly died. The die-off, the largest ever recorded for seals, was caused by a virus very similar to the one that causes distemper in dogs. Environmentalists immediately pointed to the cause - industrial wastes. Article >> More about Michael Castleman >>

Solid Waste & Recycling

From Wastes To Resources: It's Time for a Paradigm Shift. By Richard Gertman. We need to return to the goal -- sensible diversion programs that recover materials and maintain their value. "Resources should be recovered for their value, not just to keep them out of a landfill. We need to change the focus, but to do so will require a paradigm shift." Article >> More about Richard Gertman >>

Toxics & Health

The Lead Hazard: The More We Learn, The HEAVIER The Problem Looks. By Michael Castleman. Not long ago, the threat of lead poisoning seemed far removed from the middle class. Scientists believed that lead, a highly toxic mineral, affected only children so poor that hunger drove them to eat lead-laced paint chips peeling from inner-city tenement walls. But no one is exempt from the lead hazard any longer. Article >> More about Michael Castleman >>

BUG OFF! Alternatives to DEET Insect Repellents. By Michael Castleman. The widely used bug repellent, DEET, has a downside. It may be hazardous to some children. There's no reason to panic, but this summer, you might try one of the growing number of non-DEET alternatives. Since 1961, a handful of medical journal reports have blamed the chemical for confusion, convulsions, brain damage, and even three deaths in children. Article >> More about Michael Castleman >>

Making Change Happen

Preparing to Live in the Next Millennium. By Denis Hayes. A speech on change, leadership, history, what matters, and why what we do makes a difference to a Foundation for Global Community event in 1999 in Palo Alto, California. Speech >> More about Denis Hayes >>

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