Ethical issues of everyday life - without moralizing this eBook seeks to enquire and propose answers to the question how we can live more responsibly in our global village. The ideas offered will be inspiring to all of us who care about how we affect the world.

A growing literature examines the effects of economic variables on obesity, typically focusing on only one or a few factors at a time. We build a more comprehensive economic model of body weight, combining the 1990-2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System with 27 state-level variables...

Living PlanIT is a start-up company that has developed a new, innovative business model for sustainable urbanization. This model reflects the software and technology backgrounds of its founders, Steve Lewis and Malcolm Hutchinson, and is in vivid contrast to other models for green or smart...

A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: My Friend the Beast (Stephen Morris) -- Preface -- Foreword: The New Village Green (Paul Freundlich) -- Foreword: The New Village People -- Foreword: The New Village Library -- Ch1 : The Gaia Hypothesis -- Ch2 : Silent Spring -- Ch3 : The Limits to...