Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, tells the story of how societies in the past disappeared because they over-exploited their environment.

Last fall, Amory Lovins visited Dartmouth to speak on economics, engineering, and environmentalism; he filled Filene Auditorium and two overflow rooms. That was two terms ago, and campus today is not thinking much about that speech. But maybe they should be.

The talk was based on a book, “Natural Capitalism,” which Amory Lovins wrote in collaboration […]

In my humble opinion, Michael Pollan is not just a botanist, but also a philosopher, a sociologist, and a poet. As the blurb on the back of his book, The Botany of Desire, says, “In telling the stories of four familiar species [of plants], Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most […]

Man kind takes pride in finding intelligent ways to overcome obstacles without realizing that the solutions are already available in nature. We have to turn to the living world; natural wisdom was shaped through millions of years of evolution, perfecting products and processes for specific functions. For ages, For ages, mankind neglected the lessons to […]