"How the Rise of the Megacity Is Changing the Way We Live"
"The rapid increase in the number of cities home to more than 10 million people will bring huge challenges … and opportunities."
"The rapid increase in the number of cities home to more than 10 million people will bring huge challenges … and opportunities."
Detroit, one of the birthplaces of American industrial capitalism, has also been in many ways one of its earlier deathplaces -- an urban landscape where many houses and lots are abandoned. A conversation with civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs and people she inspires offers a key example of how the urban agriculture movement is reclaiming post-industrial America both physically and spiritually.
Christa Tippett hosts this episode of American Public Media's On Being January 19, 2012.
"A review suggests that the Amazon rainforest may be changing, courtesy of human impacts on the region's weather."
Changes in federal flood insurance policy, along with increased flood risks from global warming, may encourage development in the wrong places.
Author Cynthia Barnett explains water-use truths and fallacies, offers tips for investigating water projects proposed for your audience area, and reports how some of the country’s most progressive engineers and local governments are showing that it’s absolutely possible to live with far less water.
A new United Nations Environment Programme report offers recommendations to help make refrigerants less of a greenhouse gas problem, while still addressing ozone concerns. Get tips here on how your reporting on this issue can range from the local to the global scale.