Welcome to the 122nd Carnival of the Green. Last week's Carnival was hosted at Conserve Plastic Bags, and now, here we are at Agroblogger. After reading through the submissions, I became aware that so much of what is addressed by the green movement is our relationship to the material world. Considering environmentalism is [...]

As we push towards a truly green and sustainable revolution, business people and ecologists are increasingly forced to learn one another's language.  Since the inception of environmentalism as a movement, business and economic activity was implicitly viewed as anathema, cruel and unresponsive, and responsible for the destruction of the natural world.   Now, as climate change [...]

Right-wing media outlets often portray those of us who advocate for the greening of the globe as "liberal" big-government wackos whose ideas have no place in the hard-nosed scrabble of policy debate. Their portrayal notwithstanding, the green movement is in fact one of the most common sense, community-oriented and self-reliant philosophies [...]

One of the strangest characteristics of the contemporary economic system is its propensity to cannibalize itself in pursuit of short-term increases in profits. According to a literature review by eftec, "an estimated 40% of the global economy is based on biological products and processes, and yet these resources are being lost [...]

In a dialog between blogger Marcelino Fuentes and myself, sparked by a recent post on NAFTA, I have found myself to be in complete disagreement with Marcelino's conclusions. He argues that cheap, imported corn is a boon to Mexican consumers, and that our grandchildren should be willing to pay for our [...]