Attorneys often treat the question of the sufficiency of the evidence as a binary inquiry: either the evidence is sufficient to support the verdict, or it isn’t. But a Missouri appellate court ...

Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis. Australians are the worst offenders per person due to our excessive resource use.

For the past 50 years, the government's annual poverty rate has hardly changed at all. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 15 percent of Americans still live in poverty, roughly the same rate as the ...

NEWTON —In a typical month, non-profit agency Project Self-Sufficiency serves thousands of clients at its Newton campus or in the privacy of their participants’ homes in Sussex, Warren and Hunterdon ...

Making things more efficient is not enough; we have to ask ourselves what we really need. There is lots of talk about efficiency, but nobody talks much about sufficiency. But in a discussion of the ...

A few months ago, I wrote about slighting – about why human beings are so vulnerable to feeling disrespected, and how perceived disrespect can cause severe psychological pain and even lead to violence ...

Energy efficiency isn't enough anymore. Everybody talks about efficiency, about using less energy to do a given task. But it often seems like we are not really getting anywhere; as cars got more ...

Achieving complete self-sufficiency in modern-day society is extremely challenging, if not impossible. While it may be possible to grow one’s own food, generate one’s own energy, and meet other basic ...

“You guys were the light at the end of a dark tunnel,” said José Miguel Ávila Vasquez, during the Monday evening graduation ceremony for the Housing Authority’s Family Self-Sufficiency Program. “I ...