by Ben Block on May 14, 2008- Sitting in a warm Capitol Hill office building last week, a panel of green-collar job activists attempted to rally support among a room of sleepy Congressional staffers. At the end of the briefing,

by Yingling Liu on May 13, 2008 - In recent years, scarcity and pollution of water have become the paramount environmental woe in China. Numerous reports and books have exposed China's water crisis, depicting a nation suffering in the face

Change)Waves, a monthly newsletter from Social Technologies, tracks the trends and issues shaping the future of consumer life, business, and technology. In the Winter 2008 issue, Futurist Kristin Nauth interviews State of the World 2008 project co-director Gary Gardner on

The coming century of climate change, and how to manage and survive it. Forthcoming in January 2009 from the Worldwatch Institute. - It's New Year's Day, 2101. Somehow, humanity survived the worst of global warming—the higher temperatures and sea levels