Community Sustainability: Progress Redefined
“Sustainability” involves the ability to endure. From the standpoint of a biological community, the diversity of species and their productivity over time are important determinants of the stability of a community and its longevity. What about human communities? What determines the sustainability of the human species on Earth? The answers to these questions have been […]
Countdown to Copenhagen: Obamas get the message!
In the Spring of 2009 Mother Lode began its “Countdown to Copenhagen” with letter writing in response to President Barack Obama’s call to the U.S. Congress to provide him a bill to sign that addressed the issue of climate change. This was in preparation for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that starts December […]
