“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin
What would your superpower be? “Being able to observe things as they really are.”
Yuval Noah Harari
Chuck Greene, Bruce Monger, Mark Huntley, 2010: Geoengineering: The Inescapable Truth of Getting to 350. Solutions, 1(5), 57-66 (Oct 05, 2010), see http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/771.
Some special articles I found in the 'Dot Earth' Section of the New York Times:
Revkin, A. C., August 20, 2002: Forget Nature. Even Eden is Engineered. This article provides a lot of thoughts about humanity's role in the Earth system, our options and challenges.
Bartelmus, P., Cleveland, C. L. (Topic Editor), 2008. Measuring sustainable economic growth and development. In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland. First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth August 16, 2007; Last revised July 25, 2008. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Measuring_sustainable_economic_growth_and_development.
This article gives an interesting overview of the problem of measuring sustainabilityy. However, it does not reflect the full wealth of indicators, particularly more integrated ones, of sustainability, that have emerged over the last few years.
Dernbach, J. C., 2008. Navigating the U.S. Transition to Sustainability: Matching National Governance Challenges with Appropriate Legal Tools. Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-50. Extracted from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1266343 on May 30, 2009.
This article takes an interesting and basic approach to the problem of transitioning the U.S. society into sustainability.
Eakin, H., Walser, M. L. (Topic Editor), 2008. Human vulnerability to global environmental change. In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland. First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth December 6, 2007; Last revised September 14, 2008. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Human_vulnerability_to_global_environmental_change.
This article is of interest for campus sustainability.
Martinez, L., 2009. Social capital. In Cleveland, C J. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Earth. Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth February 13, 2009. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Social_capital.
Nodvin, S. C., Walser, M. L. (Topic Editors). 2008. UNDP Human Development Report 2007/2008. In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland. First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth November 27, 2007; Last revised November 5, 2008. http://www.eoearth.org/article/UNDP_Human_Development_Report_2007/2008.
