Is population growth just a giant ponzi scheme? The basic pitch of those promoting population growth is straightforward in its appeal: "More is better." Joseph Chamie, who has spent a lifelong career as a demographer, including 12 years of service as the director of the United Nations Population Division, finds that more is not necessarily better. Bernie Madoff's recent Ponzi scheme has drifted out of the world’s headlines. However, there is another even more costly and widespread scheme — "Ponzi Demography" — that warrants everybody’s attention. Ponzi demography is essentially a pyramid scheme that attempts to make more money for some by adding on more and more people through population growth. That’s no reason to grow the population! Read more at:
http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8321

Greens Petition to stop a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station, NT: The Federal Government has announced that it will repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act. However, this means Muckaty Station - just outside Tenant Creek in the NT - is now the most likely target for the national radioactive waste dump. Traditional Owners of Muckaty Station don’t want a nuclear waste dump on their lands. Help them fight it:
http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/make-your-voice-heard-nuclear-waste-dump

New eco-thinking for our capital cities: New thinking for some maybe, but eco-city pioneers such as Richard Register of Ecocity Builders in California have been on about this since the mid 1970s. Another longtime advocate and activist is Paul Downton, architect of Adelaide's Christie Walk, an award winning 'piece of ecocity' in the CBD. Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-thinking-for-our-capital-cities.html

Global Footprint Network - electronic newsletter: Plenty of sustainability news and good stuff for reducing household eco-footprint at:
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/newsletter/v/issue_22_march_1_2010

Why to people loot in a disaster? Looters and curfews, thousands of troops on their way to severely affected areas, self-defence groups setting up barricades to protect their homes… Chile after the earthquake could be mistaken for being in the throes of a political uprising rather than the aftermath of a natural disaster. But why do people loot? It can be more complex than just hunger. Read more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8546411.stm

Space probe may have found cosmic dust: Scientists may have identified the first two tiny specks of interstellar dust in material collected by the US space agency's ‘Stardust’ spacecraft. Read more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8550924.stm
[To folks living in a continuously dusty environment such as ours, it sounds quite exotic to be paying $300 million to find two specks of dust!]

[Thanks to John H, Cruxcatalyst and The Greens for the links.]