Vol. 22 No. 5, September 2009

Index

• Post-it notes.
• Apples.
• Trees.
• Study: biofuels more efficient as electricity source.
• Violence denies economy trillions, study finds.
• Energy leaders launch efficiency partnership.
• Public health leaders stress climate risk.
• China reports 66-percent drop in plastic bag use.
• Global bird species in serious decline.
• Updates.
• "Black carbon" from wood burning chokes Chilean towns.
• Chemical treaty covers nine additional pollutants.
• Saving species, privately: species continue to vanish rapidly despite the vast areas set aside by governments to protect them. Can private biodiversity reserves help?
• A New Capitalism--or a new world? Here's a non-communist, market-based economic system that's both more democratic and more sustainable than capitalism.
• Keetwonen: container living.
• A bridge to the renewable energy future: renewables are coming fast. In the meantime, here's a largely overlooked but potent way to minimize fossil fuel use and the damage it causes.
• Less stuff, or more blood: the world's rich people must decide whether they want to share the planet's resources, or send their children to kill and die for them.
• Cogeneration performance and potential.
• The living earth ethical principles: spreading community.
• Tooth truths.