We need your help, and it should be fun. But first, some scene setting. It is summer 2023, but it could be last summer, or the next, or the one after that. People are dying
in droves from unprecedented heat,... [...]
We need your help, and it should be fun. But first, some scene setting. It is summer 2023, but it could be last summer, or the next, or the one after that. People are dying
in droves from unprecedented heat,... [...]
Scottish author Alistair McIntosh, reflecting on the climate challenge that our communities collectively face, sagely wrote in “Where Now ‘Hell and High Water’?” that
“consumerism is a false satisifier—just another form of addiction that masks the emptiness.” He called upon... [...]
The End of the Good Life In July 2023, twenty environmental law professors gathered beside the Hood River in Oregon to discuss patterns of consumption and how humanity can
move forward in this time of polycrisis to have the benefits... [...]
Americans are addicted. We see this all around us. Our addictions range from the pleasurable but mostly innocuous (coffee and caffeine) to more concerning on a society-wide
scale (think overeating and obesity) to the pathological and clearly harmful (such as... [...]
In 1972, a group of MIT economists published The Limits to Growth, a study that used computer models to analyze the future of our planet under twelve possible scenarios. In
the 50 years since the book’s publication, the authors’ “business-as-usual”... [...]
Anthropogenic change on Earth is occurring on a scale never seen before. Mounting evidence shows that humans are pushing the planet beyond its systems capacities due to growth
of production, consumption, and population. To understand Earth’s systems, and to develop... [...]
Human consumption of water imposes externalities on planetary systems, and at all scales. Globally, for example, human impoundments of surface water in reservoirs account for
a significant fraction of observed polar drift and have shrunk day length by a few... [...]
Cheetos are undeniably yummy—so much so that I walk quickly past their section in the grocery snacks aisle, eyes locked on the cart. It’s not a pretty picture once I succumb
and rip open a bag, the Puffs being my... [...]
These blogs seek to conceptualize what the good life means in a consumption-obsessed, planetary-boundary constrained era. Here we suggest that cities and towns are our epicenters
for imagining what a good-life means in an era where climate change increasingly determines... [...]
Rendu le 30 novembre 1923 par le Conseil d’État, l’arrêt Couitéas[1] fête ses cent ans cette année. Cet arrêt à l’âge respectable portait sur la conséquence
de la non-effectivité d’une décision de justice et plus précisément sur la façon dont un requérant peut obtenir réparation en cas de refus de concours de [...]