Worldchanging is one of my favorite sustainability publications.
Over the past five years, executive editor/co-founder Alex Steffen and his global posse of contributors have painstakingly built up a treasure trove of valuable insight into the politics, technology, strategy, and tactics of sustainability, and they are currently preparing to celebrate their five-year anniversary on October 1, 2008.
How? [...]

On the day of the debate to boot. Anyway, here's the Reuters.com link to my open letter to U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
Hope you enjoy it; have a good weekend.

Open letter to Barack Obama and John McCain
Dear Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain:
I am a foresight researcher and a fellow North American.
I'm writing this open letter to share my concerns about the United States' future.
Civil rights
In the 1970s, as a school-aged child in Canada, I learned about the U.S. civil rights movement, and the [...]

As earlier noted, the Realistic Sanctuary Blog is now affiliated with Blogburst, a blog syndication network that has relationships with major media outlets, including Reuters, Gannett, USA Today, and the Manchester Guardian.
Well, being part of Blogburst yielded wins two and three today, which, for me, is definitely something to celebrate.
Regarding "The Big Melt," the post [...]

Updates and Correction Appended
"The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era."
- National Snow and Ice Data Center, Press Release, September 16, 2008
"The unthinkable – a government buyout of much of the private sector's bad debt [...]

Last night, in theory at least, I'd hoped to be somewhere other than at home in Vancouver, nursing a bum knee, calming an upset stomach, and feeling blue about not being at a book reading a thousand miles away.
The original plan, which my fiancée Lissa bemusedly referred to as "wishful," was to be in San [...]

The Realistic Sanctuary Blog is now affiliated with Blogburst, a blog syndication network that has relationships with major media outlets, including Reuters, Gannett, USA Today, and the Manchester Guardian.
We're happy to announce that being part of the Blogburst network has yielded its first win: On August 15, 2008, Reuters.com re-published the post "Nine things [...]

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine who in 2006 wrote the bestseller, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
Earlier this year, in February 2008, Kolbert, certainly one of the most well-informed U.S. journalists and citizens on climate-related challenges, was interviewed by the Pittsburgh City Paper about what [...]

In my previous post, I wrote about Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, the Haida artist who illustrated the book Flight of the Hummingbird using his own Haida manga style.
As noted in that post, the hummingbird of the story tirelessly drops beads of water onto a great forest fire, presumably to little, if any, material effect. As the [...]