Michael Dudley

<p>What do you do when you've been living a car-free lifestyle and you win a brand new car?</p>

<p>Poverty rates in the United States are at a 32-year high, and a new study suggests that 58% of Americans will experience poverty at least once in their lives.</p>

<p>The tremendous scale and pace of construction in China threatens to bulldoze over thousands of years of archaeological sites.</p>

<p>The dramatic downturn in American real estate markets, combined with extraordinary levels of national debt, point to an economic crisis on par with the Great Depression, writes Mike Whitney.</p>

<p>Cities are taking the lead in working towards a sustainable future, yet there's so much left to do. It's time for professionals to take a systems approach, argues Neal Peirce.</p>