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(Extract taken from The World Without Us, Alan Weisman) Les Knight, the founder of VHEMT, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, posts charts that acknowledge U.N. predictions that, worldwide, population growth rates and birth rates will both decline by 2050--but the punch line is the third chart, which shows sheer numbers still rising. "We have too many active breeders.  China is down to 1.3% reproduction, but still adds 10 million a year. Famine, disease and war are harvesting... More...

(Extracted from The World Without Us, Alan Weisman) Elsewhere on Earth, on former croplands that humans tended for millenia, warming trends will create variations of today's Amazon.  Trees may cover them with vast canopies, but the soils will remember us. In the Amazon itself, charcoal that permeates frequent deposits of rich black soil call terra preta suggests that, thousands of years ago, paleo-humans cultivated wide swatches of what we think of today as jungle primeval.  Slowl... More...

According to an article by Toko-pa Turner (dreamquestion@gmail.com) in the April/May 2010 issue of Synchronicity, how do we keep the joy and passion about ourselves, our families and the organism that is our planet, how can you take its wisdom and inform your life; how can you come alive with fire and wonder.? "Why is it so easy for us to be amazed by the beautiful, interconnected, mathematical genius of Earth... but as her eyes and ears, we hate ourselves?" Think about ... More...

In the April 21, 2010 edition of Metro, Avator director, James Cameron, says Alberta's tarsands are a "black eye" to his native country's image as an environmental leader. James Cameron questions why Canada is spending billions on extracting crude oil instead of pursuing sustainable options.  "Those same areas are a great wind belt and we could be generating...wind energy out of the same place."  Lester R. Bown, author of Plan B 4.0:  Mobilizing to Save Civ... More...