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A Sustainable Energy Plan for the U.S.

How power could come clean--in 60 years or less
by Peter Montague, Rachel's Democracy & Health News


A path-breaking new report concludes that the U.S. could develop a sustainable energy policy -- one that is both carbon-free and nuclear- free -- in 60 years or less.

The book-length study by Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) in Takoma Park, Maryland offers a detailed plan for powering the nation's economy with zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and no nuclear power plants. The study resulted from a joint project of IEER and the Nuclear Policy Research Institute.

The Architecture of Democracy

Integrating design, politics and spirit into a new blueprint for a sustainable future
by David Orr

I propose a marriage among design, politics and spirit. If design is going to be a robust concept, it has to be about much more than making things. It has to deal with systems and context.

In this larger sense, design was very much on the minds of the founders of the American republic. The Federalist Papers is a design manifesto. Toward the end of his life, James Madison, one of its chief authors, thought that the founders had figured things out for the new nation for about a century, after which, he thought, it would come undone. In large measure, it has.