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We can feed 10 billion of us, study finds — but it won’t be easy
A new study in Nature says the world can feed itself without ruining the planet -- if we make major adjustments now to how we farm and eat.
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7 billion? It’s time to talk
People go out of their way to avoid talking about population, just as they do with sex, politics, and religion. But it’s time to get over the squeamishness.
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Population facts and figures at your fingertips
The number of people in the world is expected to reach 7 billion by the end of October 2011. Our rate of increase continues to slow from the high point of over 2 percent in 1968. Still, this year’s 1.1 percent increase means some 78 million people will be added to the global population in 2011.
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Experiment in (e)co-habitation gets the green light
It looks like a hippie commune. It smells like a hippie commune. But the Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage is not a hippie commune!
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Street artists see the city as their canvas
The artist Gaia is part of a young generation using art to revitalize cities, engage residents, and connect to the past.
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Soiled diapers can now end up as roof tiles
Babies! They use so much energy that the best thing you could do to save the human race from climate change might be to avoid having one altogether. But if you choose the reproductive path, at least the 6,000 poopy diapers that your offspring will produce in the course of his or her early years could have a second life as part of your house -- specifically, as the shingles tiling your roof.
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Will more attention to climate change bring back ‘population control’?
I'm afraid that attention to climate will revive alarmist debates on population. And as a woman of color, I'm worried that the specter of population control will rear its ugly head again.
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Climate change is the reason kids don't go outside anymore
Only one in 10 kids goes outside every day. It's hard to see how this is possible, unless the other 90 percent are Morlocks, but maybe shuttling between the front door and the air-conditioned interior of mom and dad's SUV doesn't count.
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Ask Umbra: What's up with plastic made from plants?
Grist's new head honcho can't get his head around compostable, plant-based plastic. Umbra breaks it down.
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Where’s the contraceptive for overconsumption? [VIDEO]
"What we need to really find for the future is the contraceptive for overconsumption," says Mother Jones reporter Julia Whitty in this PBS video.
