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...this issue, we focus on paths toward a future world that all of us--corporate chiefs, subsistence farmers, environmental activists--would like to inhabit. Among the strategies: a new Industrial Revolution based on much more than just raw output, high-tech buildings that are environmentally savvy, incentives to speed the switch to clean energy sources, fast and safe cars that don't pollute and innovative programs to keep the sprawling global village from swallowing our precious wilderness. "So much environmental reporting emphasizes only the problems," says Alexander. "We wanted to focus on the solutions...
...high-tech challenge to the coal mines, oil rigs, nuclear reactors and hydroelectric dams that seem, well, so 20th century. Experts say wind could provide up to 12% of the earth's electricity within two decades. Wind farms in Texas, Oregon, Kansas and elsewhere helped lift U.S. wind-energy output 66% last year, and an additional $3 billion in American projects are in the works. "Wind is competitive," wrote Mark Moody-Stewart, the former chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell who now co-chairs an alternative-energy task force for the Group of Eight, in a recent report. "This is not something...
...nations--from Japan, which imports 99.7% of its oil, to Germany, where the nearby Chernobyl accident turned the public against nuclear plants, to the U.S., where the Bush Administration has strong ties to the oil industry. But the momentum toward clean renewables is undeniable. Globally, solar- and wind-energy output is growing more than 30% annually--far faster than conventional fuels--and their cost is plummeting. "We are on the cusp of an energy revolution," says Christopher Flavin, president of the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington nonprofit. "It will be as profound as the one that ushered...
...better. Through the following decades Crumb continued to stretch the form's limits with his mix of biting satire and naked autobiography. When Terry Zwigoff's documentary, "Crumb," came out in 1994, he became the world's best-known comicbook artist. Residing in France since the 1990s, Crumb's output has slowed. But this month fans will get a double dose of Crumb material both old and new. "The Complete Crumb Comics" volume 16 (Fantagraphics Books; 128pp.; $18.95) continues a series of annual books that seeks to include every scrap of Crumb's work in chronological order. Even better, "Mystic...
...redistribution project has so far produced less justice than waste. Zimbabwe had long been known as the breadbasket of southern Africa. But agricultural output has declined nearly 75% in the past three years...