Book Excerpt

The Case for Digital Degrowth

Michael Kwet / Truthdig Nov 29, 2024 AI and data center energy consumption has been overhyped. Greening the digital society requires confronting deeper structural problems. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Environment

Happy ‘Earth Overshoot Day’

Syris Valentine / Grist Aug 12, 2024 Understanding the most important holiday you’ve never heard of. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Activism

A Beginner’s Guide to Factory Farming

Seth Millstein / Sentient Media Feb 6, 2024 In order to bring about a post-factory transition for meat production and consumption, we need to better understand the challenges we currently face. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Cowboys vs. Indians Redux Over the Dakota Access Pipeline

By Chip Ward / TomDispatch Sep 23, 2016 That classic American narrative is back big time, only the Indians are now the good guys and the cowboys are on a warpath, trying to grab 640 million acres of public lands that they can plunder as if it were yesteryear. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Human Population Growth Continues to Threaten Biodiversity

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Aug 26, 2016 Scientists find that impacts of population growth on the planet’s biodiversity aren’t generally as bad as has been feared -- but are intensifying rapidly in species-rich areas.Scientists find that impacts of population growth on the planet’s biodiversity aren’t generally as bad as has been feared—but are intensifying rapidly in species-rich areas. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Empire of Things

By Carlos Lozada Apr 8, 2016 "Instead of warriors or workers, we are more than ever before consumers," a new book declares. "In the rich world -- and in the developing world increasingly, too -- identities, politics, the economy and the environment are crucially shaped by what and how we consume." Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Coalition to Wage War on Food Waste

By Alex Kirby / Climate News Network Jan 25, 2016 A new global group says food that fails to reach consumers or is dumped as waste could instead save lives and cut greenhouse gas emissions. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Water Demand for Energy to Double by 2035

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 31, 2013 The amount of fresh water needed to produce energy for the world is set to double within the next 25 years as civilization’s reliance on coal and biofuels increases, the International Energy Agency projects. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Growth Sputters in the Second Quarter

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 28, 2012 The marginally growing U.S. economy reduced speed in the second quarter of the year after months of lackluster job creation, threatening the financial well-being of ordinary Americans and deepening the challenge for President Obama’s re-election campaign. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fed Changes Growth, Employment Forecast for the Worse

Staff / Truthdig Nov 3, 2011 Back in June, the Federal Reserve predicted a sunnier economic future for the U.S. than it did Wednesday, when the Fed released revised figures for both growth (it'll happen more slowly) and unemployment (it'll continue to hover around 9 percent) through 2012. But the news wasn't all gloomy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Don’t Count on Us

Staff / Truthdig Jun 5, 2010 In the face of the stereotypical image of Americans as free-spending consumers, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told his international finance colleagues that G20 countries should not rely on American buyers for their products as they travel the road to economy recovery. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ohio’s Unemployed Getting Smashed

Staff / Truthdig Jan 29, 2010 While seemingly intuitive, it's bit frightening to see the correlation so clearly illustrated: A graphic, covering a 12-year period, shows the tie between Ohio's unemployment rate and the amount of alcohol purchased. With unemployment and booze consumption at their contemporary highs, many are wondering about the public health effects of unemployment on those out of work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )