For years, Olaf and Jannis Bolken wanted to sell the older house on their 31 acres to their son Torfinn, who lives there with his family. Olaf and Jannis, both 72, live in a newer house they built after they purchased the property north of Terrebonne in 1971. But they could not …

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As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem — the global crisis in land use.

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The former governor-general of Australia is launching a national campaign to restore Australia's degraded landscape with sustainable agricultre, in what he says is the the most important project in the nation's history.

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Water is the key to Florida's future economic growth, with planning and growth management needed not a carte blanche approach to develop and land use.

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Florida defines dense urban area as one person per acre, clear path for more overbuilding...

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Space May Be the Final Frontier for Some Renewables The transformation of landscapes to accommodate 'friendly' energy technologies like solar and wind are not inconsequential concerns, says a former Interior official.

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Florida guts growth management laws.

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Conservation group, WildEarth Guardians announces study results claiming that grazing has an increasingly destructive impact on shrinking wildlife habitat.

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At the very time when citizens want smarter growth and greener development patterns, the Florida legislature is seriously considering elimination of the state growth managment/land planning agency and development oversight, in the name of promoting economic development.

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Traditional foods are so important to the Umatilla, Walla Walla and Cayuse tribes that they've centered their entire land-management strategy on protecting them.

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In order to save wild salmon, the provincial government should manage watersheds through a single water and land agency.

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For more than 20 years, a 292-acre property in Clinton Township was a key battleground in New Jersey's sprawl wars. Environmentalists saw it as a vital buffer to a major reservoir. Residents saw one last open tract needed to protect the rural aesthetic they cherished.

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Making lemonade out of the sprawl lemons...

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interesting take on re-making sprawl suburbs

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Clearing and blasting near Jordan River is creating shockwaves among opponents of Western Forest Products plans to create 319 lots on sensitive stretches of land around Jordan River, Otter Point and Shirley. Roads are already being built in the Sandcut Creek area, even though th …

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The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands of acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions. The deal was struck behind closed doors between Mark E.

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We are used to thinking that poverty is a "social problem" and wealth is only something to celebrate, but extreme wealth is also a social problem, and the superrich have become a burden on everyone else.

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Ask people in British Columbia's timber towns how to reverse their plummeting fortunes and a lot of them will say the solution begins at home -- with locals gaining control of how nearby forests are put to use. Too much of B.C.'s most valuable resource is in the hands of a few c …

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Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now.

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British Columbia is in a race against time to remove and replenish pine stands that have been killed by mountain pine beetle. At stake is B.C.'s contribution to staving off global warming. We seem to be making it worse rather than better, despite our vast forests.

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Architects and urban planners make pilgrimages to Curitiba to learn how it became what many call the greenest city in the world. There nearly every family has a car, but only a third of them commute by car. The rest use the bus, voluntarily.

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Electricity rates are going up in British Columbia, but Premier Gordon Campbell said on Thursday that the provincial government wants to ensure that higher rates don't rob B.C.

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A s people who care about the legacy of the Pacific Northwest, we all share responsibility to support renewable energy. At the same time, we have a responsibility to protect national treasures.

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Canada's westernmost province plans to recruit its vast forests to help in the battle against climate change, with the goal of no net deforestation by 2015, British Columbia said on Tuesday. The province will also use its planned Pacific Carbon Trust to offer carbon offsets for  …

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The city is getting international admiration for its catchily named EcoDensity initiative, but some city residents are nervous about what it means for them. As the city heads into the home stretch of public consultation on what will become an "EcoDensity Charter," resident group …

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