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Category: Issue 1 Number 4

A Sustainable Traditional Village in Oaxaca

by Andres Jennings, drediz2000@gmail.com   Imagine for a moment a beautiful laurel tree high in the mountain desert next to a church overlooking the pueblo, the feel of crisp air and the sound of flowing water from an intricate canal system running through...

Icelandic Reality: a photo gallery

By Sigþrúður Pálsdóttir, sissu@sea.is   www.sissu.com www.galleriisland.is     The only true reality Iceland has today is its nature, now that the Icelandic Krona has  collapsed under the...

Mr. Critical Goes to the Movies

by Mr. Critical, MrCritical@JournalofSustainability.com Editors' note: We asked Mr. Critical if would write a review of the new Pixar film, "Wall-E" for this issue of J.o.S. He answered that although "Wall-E'" is unquestionably a...

A Wind Turbine in Winter: report from France

By François Dauphin,*  francois.dauphin@logica.com *Director of Environmental Services, Energy and Utilities International, Logica France is the only country in the world where a wind turbine has been burned by protesters and where the debate about exploiting the...

Is the Earth Alive?

By George Marinakis, George@JournalofSustainability.com It has been nearly 30 years since Lovelock first published his book “Gaia: a new look at life on earth.” The “Gaia Hypothesis” gradually gained credibility through...

DIGGING ROOTS: A Dying Legacy/Snapshot of a rural Ozarks marketplace

by Roxann Phillips, roxann@ancientearthwisdom.com http://blog.ancientearthwisdom.com (Ozark Musings from the homestead) http://www.madisonwoods.wordpress.com (Fantasy Fiction works in progress)   October 2007....

What is Sustainable Design?

By editors, editors@JournalofSustainability.com   Sustainable design emphasizes alternatives to technological development. Whereas technologists seek to improve the gasoline engine, New Urbanists seek to render the engine unnecessary through...

The Solar Chef

by Rose Marie Kern, author@RoseMarieKern.com   When I was a kid, every summer the TV news folks would choose a very hot day to go downtown, spread aluminum foil on the County Courthouse steps and crack an egg onto...

I Ching/Climate Changes

by editors, editors@JournalofSustainability.com   As we begin online publication of J.o.S. we again turn to the oracle. Casting the coins we obtain "The Joyous" [ 58, ] and " Oppression" [ 47. ] What a curious transition! As is so often the...

A New Vision for Sustainability: Book Review

By Mark Brooks, markdb1@gmail.com   Book Review: The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth By Peter G. Brown Black Rose Books (Montreal)   When I was working in the...

Four Poems

by Dean Yannias, dyannias@hotmail.com   Like Love   Like standing naked on a stage, The curtain rising on a throng; Like staring at an empty page And being forced to sing a song;   Like falling from...

Is our Population Sustainable?

by Mario Garrett, PhD.* * Chair, Department of Gerontology, San Diego State University, CA. USA Because sustainable is defined as the “characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely”, our population is already unsustainable...

Talks on Sustainability – 4. The Problems with “Deep Ecology”

by George Marinakis, George@JournalofSustainability.com Bron Taylor thinks “Deep Ecology” isn't deep enough. Taylor, a professor of religion at the University of Florida, has studied the Deep Ecology movement since the early 1990's....

Fat-land: a parable, with apologies to Edwin Abbot

Editors' note: the public criticism to this piece has been substantial, and we have been asked to provide an editorial position on it.  The criticism often begins with assertions that the piece has no value as either social or political commentary.  Once we address those claims, new...
 
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