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As for lighting, strategically placed candles with mirrors behind them shine more brightly than people give them credit for.

A suggestion for those who find it financially difficult to be green. Search in your areas for Trade and Barter organizations. I'm sure most big cities have them. But you don't have to join a group, but people you know that you can barter with. I have done this before, traded my time with a friend who is a carpenter who builds energy efficient off-grid homes. It saved me a lot of money. Everyone has a skill they can trade. You can still be green even if you have a low-income. I've managed to do it, and having a low-income has taught me to be responsible with money. Grow your own food, or find someone who has a space you can start a garden. I live in a bachelor suite and grow culinary herbs, and baby lettuce, romaine, spinach. Also grow sprouts in jars. There is lots of info on the net about sprout growing. Posted by: dare | April 21, 2007 at 12:46 PM

our early twenty-first century civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond.

Today, our successes and problems flow from the extraordinary growth in the world economy over the last century.

While the economy is growing exponentially, the earth’s natural capacities, such as its ability to supply fresh water, forest products, and seafood, have not increased. Humanity’s collective demands first surpassed the earth’s regenerative capacity around 1980. Today, global demands on natural systems exceed their sustainable yield capacity by nearly 30 percent. We are meeting current demands by consuming the earth’s natural assets, setting the stage for decline and collapse.

Multi-national food corporations are increasingly using global food insecurity as a tool for political control.

rich countries are buying poor countries’ fertile soil, water and sun to ship food and fuel back home.

“USAID is actually an arm of the US-Department of Defense; it serves US foreign policy interest and has little to do with humanism.”