Man Swarm: How Overpopulation is Killing the Wild World

by Lisa-Marie | Jun 29, 2014

Man Swarm Overpopulation is Real. We have come on like a swarm of locusts. Now at over seven billion and counting, renowned visionary conservationist and global thinker Dave Foreman helps us understand that only by stabilizing and reducing human population can we stop...

The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World

by Lisa-Marie | Jun 24, 2014

In the movie The Matrix, the character Morpheus offers two pills to Neo—if he takes the blue pill, he will go on with life as he has before, believing what he has always believed. If he takes the red pill, he will find out what the “matrix” really is, and many of his...

The Elephant in the Room in The Sixth Extinction

by Laura | Mar 5, 2014

I so looked forward to reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction. But in the end, I sat feeling like there was a “big elephant in the room,” as the saying goes – in this case, it would be elephant in the pages….Kathyrn...

Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin: A Memoir

by Laura | Jan 14, 2014

My favorite cyberspace sleuth who often gives me tips on articles to check out recently sent me some good words about Nicole Hardy’s recent book, Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin. I asked if she’d write her take on the book for posting here, and she...

The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future

by Laura | Nov 1, 2013

In 1980, economist Julian Simon challenged well-known biologist and environmentalist Paul Ehrlich to a bet that, as author Paul Sabin writes “would leave their legacies forever intertwined.” Ehrlich bet Simon that metal prices would rise in the decade that followed,...