Notes from the Editors, February 2011
February 1, 2011
» Notes from the Editors The two lead articles in this issue of Monthly Review are both outgrowths of important new books published by Monthly Review Press. Samir Amin’s article, “The… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Ecology
Stephen Jay Gould’s Critique of Progress
February 1, 2011
Richard York is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and co-editor of the Sage journal Organization & Environment. Brett Clark is an assistant professor of sociology… READ MORE
On Nuclear Power
February 1, 2011
Monthly Review has long been on record as opposed to the expansion of nuclear energy.1 Most recently, some of the dangers of nuclear power, both in its present form and… READ MORE
Ecological Civilization
January 1, 2011
Fred Magdoff (fmagdoff [at] uvm.edu) is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and adjunct professor of crop and soil science at Cornell University. His… READ MORE
Capitalism and Degrowth: An Impossibility Theorem
January 1, 2011
A slightly different version of this article was published under the title “Degrow or Die?” in the December/January 2011 issue of the UK journal Red Pepper, for which it was… READ MORE
WaterÑOn Women’s Burdens, Humans’ Rights, and Companies’ Profits
January 1, 2011
Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz is associate professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Baskent University (Ankara/Turkey). “We used to say that water was sacred, but now you… READ MORE
Heinberg’s New Coal Question
January 1, 2011
Ryan Wishart (wwishart [at] uoregon.edu) is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor of the chapter “Mountain Justice: A Grassroots Effort to End Mountaintop… READ MORE
The Indiscreet Banality of the Bourgeoisie: The Church of LEED, Passive House, and the Dangers of Going Green
December 1, 2010
Jeff Dardozzi ([email protected]) has designed and built dwellings for over thirty years and is a longtime student of vernacular architecture. He is a cofounder of EA, a design/build collective based… READ MORE
Capitalism and the Curse of Energy Efficiency: The Return of the Jevons Paradox
November 1, 2010
John Bellamy Foster (jfoster [at] monthlyreview.org) is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology, University of Oregon. Brett Clark is assistant professor of sociology, North Carolina State University. Richard… READ MORE
The Humanization of the CosmosÑTo What End?
November 1, 2010
Peter Dickens (p.dickens1 [at] ntlworld.com) teaches at the Universities of Brighton and Cambridge, UK. His most recent book, co-written with James Ormrod, is Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the… READ MORE