Assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity, with practical solutions based on a new economic paradigm for our crowded planet.

This study examines one community's experience with the idea of sustainable development. After tornados destroyed 60 blocks of a small city, during recovery the leaders defined the rebuilding effort as creating a "sustainable" community.

Energy and water are inextricably linked. Colorado water utilities use energy to pump treat and distribute potable water customers use energy to heat cool and or pressurize water and wastewater utilities use energy to treat and discharge wastewater. By conserving water, water utilities and customers can save energy. Equally important, energy and water savings translate into direct savings on customers energy and water bills. Water conservation represents...

"Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, and embrace instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains how government has favored one form of development over the last sixty years: the drivable suburb. Rooted in the driving forces of the economy - car manufacturing...

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force...