Energy efficiency isn't enough anymore. Everybody talks about efficiency, about using less energy to do a given task. But it often seems like we are not really getting anywhere; as cars got more ...

Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis. Australians are the worst offenders per person due to our excessive resource use.

Attorneys often treat the question of the sufficiency of the evidence as a binary inquiry: either the evidence is sufficient to support the verdict, or it isn’t. But a Missouri appellate court ...

Density, density, density and more density. That’s my mantra. Build cities up, not out. Get people out of their cars and connect the masses to public transit. Build affordable housing and foster ...

A few months ago, I wrote about slighting – about why human beings are so vulnerable to feeling disrespected, and how perceived disrespect can cause severe psychological pain and even lead to violence ...

Making things more efficient is not enough; we have to ask ourselves what we really need. There is lots of talk about efficiency, but nobody talks much about sufficiency. But in a discussion of the ...

The notion of sufficiency has recently gained some momentum in separate discourses on distributive justice ('sufficientarianism') and the environment ('eco-sufficiency'). An investigation of their ...

Since returning to power in August 2021, Afghanistan's Islamist Taliban rulers have showcased ambitious infrastructure and natural-resource development projects as part of a quest for self-sufficiency ...

Czechs risk a banana-free diet, lower food quality and higher prices if a bill making its way through parliament is passed, say critics. The winners would be large, politically-linked farming groups.