Sustainability Blog

Our World Is In Peril. How Do You Cope?

by John Robbins, bestselling author, Diet for a New America and The New Good Life

I am someone who longs for world peace. Perhaps you are, too. But every single day our world spends more than $4 billion on war. The last hundred years have been by far the bloodiest in human history.

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Roadmap to a Healthy Future

There is a possibility that the world will see again. At this moment, global civilization is blind to the peril and possibility that resides in forces at play in society and the environment. To rectify that, there is an essential and indispensable course of action, a systematic call from each village and neighborhood and family to others, to become literate in the social and environmental challenges we face.

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Millenium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most broadly supported, comprehensive and specific development goals the world has ever agreed upon.

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10.10.10 — HIstory in the Making

It’s been a tough year: in North America, oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico; in Asia some of the highest temperatures ever recorded; in the Arctic, the fastest melting of sea ice ever seen; in Latin America, record rainfalls washing away whole mountainsides.

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Mass Denial

And Other Forms of Ecological Avoidance Syndrome (EAS)

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We have the blessing and the curse to be living in a time in which scientists have repeatedly reported on the imminent destruction – and in many cases, collapse – of major parts of virtually all of the earth’s principle ecosystems. The rate of destruction, overall, is accelerating rapidly.

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