Weekly Reading

In Conservation magazine, David Malakoff examines how cellulosic ethanol may threaten biodiversity around the world.



A Comprehensive Approach to Congo’s Conflict Minerals, a report by the Enough Project, argues that ending resource-related violence in the DRC will require:
  • Making the consumer-electronics supply chain transparent;
  • Pinpointing and securing strategic mines;
  • Reforming and expanding governance; and
  • Providing miners with economic opportunities.
Food shortages pose the greatest threat to global stability, argues Lester Brown in the May Scientific American.



The New Agriculturalist describes how some African farmers are adapting to climate change.



Worldchanging features an interview with Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.