natural resources

Contrary to the belief that the world is overpopulated and humans are a burden on our planet, Gale Pooley argues there’s actually a positive correlation between population and resources.

The problem the world faces is that many of the resources that are truly threatened are the renewable ones, not, as so often assumed, the non-renewables.

The ever-burning flames of legend not only reveal the spiritual and cultural rituals of the past, but can also give clues related to modern geology and current gas seepage.

When Brazil’s largest and most valuable company saw a corruption scandal threaten its financial health, it called on China for help. China was happy to provide needed funds, as it has been doing throughout Latin America in recent years.

How green is your city? How does it match up to other cities? Is it making progress in becoming more sustainable?

To date, all human economic activity has depended on the material and energy resources of a single planet; understandably, perhaps. It is conceivable though that future advances in space exploration could change this by opening our closed planetary economy to essentially unlimited external resources of energy and raw materials.

Candidate Obama was faced with major energy challenges in 2008. They ranged from the reality that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would take decades to the fact that security of oil supplies would remain a long-term problem.