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NASA's amazing high definition update of its infamous "Blue Marble" photograph of Earth is disturbing not for what can be seen, but for what cannot.

Highland Park, ZIP code 75205, represents the top of the 1% in Texas, and is the most enthusiastically Republican community in the country.

With a major push by the federal government to achieve 80% clean energy by 2035, the California Energy Commission is moving quickly to approve permits. Sensitive Native cultural sites are threatened by the speedy process, say many involved.

Mother Jones magazine reports on how tea party hostility towards "big government" is now being levelled at Agenda 21 and other smart growth initiatives, in the belief that they are part of an international conspiracy.

Former California Governor (and current gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown may be the only person able to give the state a clean energy policy -- mainly because he's already done it before, according to this article.

Some of the resistance that killed a major smart growth project in Alameda, California came from environmentalists. Josh Harkinson argues that its time for enviros to stop fighting smart growth and embrace density.

Population is the last taboo, says Mother Jones, but on the way to 10 billion in 2045, we might want to consider having the conversation.

Developers, planners, and city officials haven't been insisting on regulations protecting low-density residential all these years -- the people who live there have, says Kevin Drum at Mother Jones.

Population centers the world around are caught in the grips of devastating droughts. Though temporary conditions, their increasing frequency should be a call to water-saving action, writes Tom Englehardt.

Housing -- or the lack of it -- remains a major issue in post-Katrina New Orleans.

This editorial cartoon from Mother Jones offers a look at a possible future for Yellowstone National Park.

One of the hosts of Mythbusters turns his eye on new ideas for energy sources, from grape juice to used tires.

In Marin County and other wealthy, liberal enclaves, many residents are vocally supportive of affordable housing and other causes -- unless its in their neighborhood.

Privatization is catching on with many state and local governments in the U.S., and Wall Street is expecting great riches from roads.

An interview with Mike Davis, best-selling author of "City of Quartz" and his latest book, "Planet of Slums".

An interview with John Ralston Saul, the author of "The Collapse of Globalism."