Contemporary Issues

  • "I'm John Doe and I approve this message." During election season, various forms of this statement are repeated so often that many of us begin to mumble them in our sleep. Although this redundant...

  • You have heard the rhetoric: the suburbs are unsustainable, destroy farmland, lack community, and cause global warming. "Anti-Sprawl" messages are popular and the images of friendlier neighborhoods and healthier...

  • The Kyoto Protocol is a worldwide treaty, in effect since 2004, binding signatory countries to lower greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit possible impacts on global warming. The only problem is that few...