Environmental Tipping Points

Environmental issues are often overwhelming, and it can be difficult not to feel powerless when it comes to dealing with them. Read about environmental tipping points (ETPs) and be rejuvenated! Ecologist, researcher, author and professor Gerry Marten; award-winning business reporter Steve Brooks; and researcher and journalist Amanda Suutan have been investigating and educating about ETPs to find out how they work and how they can be used.

So, what is an ETP anyway? "An 'environmental tipping point' is a point in a linked eco-social system where a small action can catalyze major changes in the system's health." They are often the cause of environmental problems, but as Marten, Brooks and Suutan have found, they can also be the solution. Go to http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/ to learn about how ETPs have been successful, from rural India to New York City, in improving the environment and people's lives.