Sustainable Economic Systems

The yearly battle over the U.S. budget officially begins on Feb. 2, when the president plans to send his fiscal 2016 funding proposal to Congress, where it will be torn to shreds or ignored entirely…

Food groups are urging the Obama administration to protect honeybees from dangerous pesticides. In a letter to President Obama sent Tuesday, more than 100 environmentally friendly food companies, in…

Sustainably speaking, taking a cruise is a pretty dicey proposition. After all, any practice that centers around loading a few thousand people into a giant steel behemoth, motoring them around environ…

Environmental and social justice groups in the United States and around the world are applauding a provision of the 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Act, passed by the U.S. Congress just before the Christ…

Cruise ships have become the symbol of all that’s gone haywire in the tourism industry.  Cruise Ships Are Unregulated Trouble on the High Seas  -New York Times 1/5/2015

Disney and other cruise holiday operators are trying to clean up their acts and make cruising a greener holiday choice. But why aren’t they being more transparent about it? Those selling cruise holi…

For years, the government has been issuing guidelines about healthy eating choices. Now, a panel that advises the Agriculture Department is ready to recommend that you be told not only what foods are…

Oil tankers bring about 15 million gallons of oil every day into Washington state. Starting January 1, those ships are required to have double hulls to reduce the risk of an oil spill. The change has…