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The Hedgehog Review: Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 2012)
Abundance on Trial: The Cultural Significance of "Sustainability"1
Joshua J. Yates
Reprinted from The Hedgehog Review 14.2 (Summer 2012). This essay may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission. Please contact The Hedgehog Review for further details.
Every now and then a single word emerges from our common parlance to achieve the status of a master term. Such a word gives expression to discrete needs and purposes, but it also provides a perspicuous lens through which to view the ethical disposition and emotional temper of a culture at a particular moment in time. The argument of this essay is that "sustainability" has become just such a word for our moment, deserving closer attention than it has so far received.
This essay seeks to address a set of neglected questions about the cultural significance of sustainability's rise to a master term in our society and to distill its deeper moral and ethical salience from the wide spectrum of its connotations and applications. We will see how varying concerns over what Americans (and humans more generally) are not presently sustaining reflect a deep-seated anxiety that goes to the very heart of our most basic assumptions about what it means and takes to thrive in the contemporary world. Specifically, we will see how such assumptions are themselves connected to growing uncertainty over whether the relationship between humans and nature is one primarily defined by scarcity or abundance. In light of these anxieties and uncertainties, we will also see how the rise of sustainability to a master term represents accumulating disappointment and disillusionment with those key terms once believed constitutive of modern progress—terms like "development," "improvement," and "growth." The cultural significance of sustainability, in other words, is related to the mounting scrutiny and doubt now facing the master terms of modern progress.
How "Sustainability" Became a Word for Our Time
In the summer of 2011, two separate but well-publicized reports by climate scientists issued global calls for sustainability. "The Stockholm Memorandum," put forward by a group of Nobel Laureates who might well be expected to champion the cause of sustainability, contended: "we are the first generation facing the evidence of global change. It therefore falls upon us to change our relationship with the planet, in order to tip the scales towards a sustainable world for future generations."2 Similarly, in a report commissioned by the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, "Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene," a perhaps unexpected champion of sustainability called on all the peoples and nations of the world to "protect the habitat that sustains us."3
They are not alone. Today, there are thousands of organizations across the planet dedicated to the cause of sustainability in one realm or another. The range of advocacy and application is remarkable, including everything from sustainable economic development to sustainable architectural design and city planning, fashion and apparel, energy, farming, education, healthcare, and so on. As the Nobel Laureate and Vatican reports suggest, the range of constituencies promoting sustainability is equally remarkable. Before we can properly engage the cultural significance of sustainability, it is necessary to develop a fuller picture of how the language of sustainability has become so pervasive.
Conceptual History
The history of sustainability has only just begun to be written.4 As a discrete idea, the term was largely ignored by historians, even by environmental historians, until the first decade of the twenty-first century. There has been, of course, a popular story about the origins of sustainability, more or less agreed on by both its advocates and critics. In this telling, sustainability finds its roots in 1970s' environmentalism, which was animated largely by a neo-Malthusian view that humans were quickly outstripping the carrying capacity of the planet. There were simply too many humans consuming too much of the Earth's resources, and the costs of the unparalleled economic boom of the post-war period were finally beginning to come due. Humanity was confronting what one well-known study of the period called "the limits to growth."5
The term only rose to international prominence, however, as part of a grand synthesis (or compromise) between environmentalists and development experts within the United Nations system.6 That synthesis found its now classic articulation as "sustainable development" in "Our Common Future," the 1987 Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (colloquially known as the Brundtland Report). This landmark report linked sustainability with development in order to harmonize tensions between advanced industrial nations increasingly concerned with environmental problems, on the one hand, and the need for economic development that bedeviled newly decolonizing countries, on the other. In this way, the rhetoric of sustainability was birthed as a policy rubric intended to bridge opposing constituencies in an international context of postcolonialism, Cold War geopolitics, and the beginnings of economic globalization.
The Brundtland Report provided not only what has become sustainability's reigning definition—"development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs"—but also its most expansive, tripartite conceptual framework by which to evaluate any action as truly sustainable, the so-called "three Es" of sustainability: Environment, Economy, and Equality (see Figure A). According to many advocates, these three interrelating spheres represent sustainability in the most complete sense of the word.
Figure A: The Three Spheres of Sustainability
Still, it was not until after 1992 that the idea of sustainability began to seep into widespread public consciousness. Building off of the accomplishments of the Brundtland Report and earlier conferences, the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, known popularly as the Earth Summit, brought together thousands of world leaders representing government, business, the media, and civil society. Among its central accomplishments, the Earth Summit developed a global program for action on sustainable development called Agenda 21—a plan to achieve environmentally sustainable development by the twenty-first century. One of the primary goals of Agenda 21, as with the Brundtland Report before it, was to raise the level of understanding of, and participation in, the cause of sustainable development across multiple sectors and levels of human society.7
The Sustainability Industry
To accomplish the aims of Agenda 21 would take extensive planning, coordination, mobilization, and tracking—in short, it would take an international cottage industry dedicated to the cause of realizing sustainability worldwide. However one might want to rate the success of Agenda 21 twenty years on, the multi-sector, stake-holder cohort that was first assembled in Rio has today evolved into scores of international non-governmental organizations (INGOS), consultancies, think tanks, multi-sector coalitions, and auditing firms, which have sprung up to facilitate the integration of one or a number of sustainability frameworks across several leading institutional sectors of society.
Consider higher education. As early as 1990, in the lead-up to the 1992 Earth Summit, a group of 31 university leaders representing 15 nations signed the Talloires Declaration—the first official commitment to environmental sustainability on the part of university administrators.8 Two decades later, institutions of higher education across the world are making sustainability a core organizational concern, and, according to a recent study on the rapidly growing body of research in what is called "sustainability sciences," the number of scholars writing about sustainability in the academy has doubled every 8.3 years between 1974 and 2010.9 Moreover, the vast majority of universities have established "sustainability offices" to coordinate all comprehensive planning and communication with respect to their sustainability commitments.
Over the same period, sustainability has moved from a buzzword to a core value in business circles. According to a 2011 MIT/Sloan Management survey of 2,874 managers and executives from 113 countries, two-thirds of respondents reported that sustainability was critically important to being competitive in today's marketplace, up from 55 percent the year before. Moreover, 70 percent of companies that have placed sustainability on their management agendas have done so in the past six years, and 20 percent have done so in just the past two years (see Figure B).10
Figure B: Findings from the 2011 Sustainability and Innovation Global Executive Study, MIT Sloan Management Review
During this same period, we can see the growth of a new category of executive; alongside chief executives, chief financial officers, and chief operating officers, major corporations are adding the "chief sustainability officer." "What started out as a compliance job," reports Geoffrey Heal, a business professor at the Columbia Business School, "has evolved into one that guards the value of the brand."11
To be sure, a great deal of controversy surrounds the adoption of the rhetoric of sustainability by corporations. Many environmental, labor, human rights, and localist groups dismiss it as "green" washing. Nevertheless, according to Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO of the aluminum giant Alcoa, "sustainability now has to be on everyone's agenda, and that represents a fundamental change."12
A similar story of rhetorical diffusion and institutional development can be found in many other sectors, not least in the public sector. Countries that were signatories on Agenda 21 and other related UN pronouncements have created their own sustainability plans. In the United States, such plans have taken different shapes (and inspired different levels of commitment) under different administrations, but most of the action is found at the state and municipal levels, where various global and national sustainability frameworks have been customized to meet regional and local needs. Go to nearly any official state, city, or county website, and you will find a reference to sustainability principles or programming.13
Thanks to the legacy of the Brundtland Report and the Earth Summit's Agenda 21, sustainability has become more than a fashionable ideal in institutions of higher education, more than a buzzword in corporate boardrooms, and more than a matter of political expediency in the chambers of governmental power at all levels. Sustainability has become a core organizing principle, and as a result, it has arguably come to define the rhetorical terrain on which individual actors within these sectors increasingly have to operate.
Nevertheless, as important as all of this rhetorical and institutional diffusion has been, it is hard to imagine sustainability achieving its current level of popularity without capturing the public imagination. For that it needed a catalytic cause. It found such a cause in the growing alarm and debate over global warming, which was brought to mainstream attention in the late 1990s and early 2000s, through a number of high profile scientific reports and international meetings, such as the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. Perhaps the event with the greatest popular impact in the U.S. came with the 2006 airing of Al Gore's documentary on global climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. These factors, among others, helped make sustainability a household word. In the process, however, they have also led to its politicization.
The Politicization of Sustainability
Sustainability has its critics. From the beginning, the UN's linking of sustainability with development struck many environmentalists as a fundamental contradiction in terms. The concept of sustainability originally emerged out of ecological thinking that was interested in promoting a steady-state (or zero-growth) economy, not more growth, however sustainable it might be. To marry these two opposing concepts would not respect nature's limits; it would only repackage growth in more environmentally friendly terms. Far from a creative synthesis, sustainable development came to represent, in certain environmental circles, a fatal compromise that enabled economic interests to co-opt ecological concerns, which in turn, resulted in what one scholar has called "sustainable degradation."14
Today, criticism of sustainability has migrated across the political spectrum and has accrued a very different set of voices along the way. Many of the most vocal critics of sustainable development in the United States are actually anti-environmentalists on the political right. Their nemeses are not proponents of economic growth, but UN bureaucrats who they fear are using the concept of sustainability to restrict national liberties and infringe upon private property rights—in short, as a Trojan horse for socialism. In the words of a letter posted on RedState, a popular conservative blog: "sustainability is the next step in the green government religion, to mandate what statists want, at the local level."15 On another popular conservative blog, Townhall.com, Rachel Alexander avers that "'sustainability' is an amorphous concept that can be interpreted to an extreme degree that would regulate and restrict many parts of our lives."16
While UN bureaucrats are the object of ire and invective, the epicenter of this right-wing populist discontent is not found in the street protests of high-level UN meetings, as we might expect, but in city halls and county court houses in several municipalities across the nation. The issue? The adoption of land use guidelines from the U.S. chapter of an international consulting group known as "Local Governments for Sustainability" (or "ICLEI"). Over the past decade, more than 600 U.S. cities, towns, and counties have consulted with ICLEI and utilized its various sustainability performance and planning services.17 The trouble with ICLEI, according to opponents, is that it is effectively smuggling into America the goals of Agenda 21, which are seen as "European socialist goals that will erode our freedoms," ranging from owning our own homes and cars to population control.18 Bypassing Congress, ICLEI is going directly to local communities, who do not fully understand the real agenda, and selling them on their program with technocratic buzz words like "smart growth" and "responsible comprehensive planning."19
Controversy over high profile global issues has suddenly intruded upon public meetings ordinarily embroiled in local disputes. Around the country, Tea Party advocates have stormed meetings, demanding an end to their community's membership in ICLEI. According to the New York Times, "a City Council meeting in Missoula, Mont., in December got out of hand and required police intervention over $1,200 in dues to Iclei."20 In a number of cases, the political pressure has been too much to bear. Communities in Pennsylvania and California have recently withdrawn their participation from ICLEI, and Alabama just became the first state to officially ban Agenda 21.21 Meanwhile Tea Party and other opponents of ICLEI square off against advocates in many other communities across the country. Like so many other key terms, sustainability has become another pawn in the American culture wars.
Curiously, in spite of all the suspicion that sustainability is a shibboleth for socialism in matters of local land use, the word seems to have become important for many of these same critics in the wake of the Great Recession. To be sure, their cause has nothing to do with "sustainable development" and the legacies of Brundtland and Agenda 21. Instead, their watchword is fiscal sustainability, which implies reducing federal spending, and thus debt, which in turn suggests a return to limited government and free markets. It is striking how, for these critics, the same term can engender so much criticism and animosity in one formulation and so much praise and support in another; without realizing it, they simultaneously end up being both boosters and bashers of sustainability, and its invocation "draws applause lines either way."22 This reveals how sustainability has become not only part of our common idiom, and thus available for wide-ranging and divergent use, but also a term we seemingly cannot do without.
Taken together, the foregoing rhetorical and institutional "mapping" of sustainability leads us to an important recognition: as a matter of empirical description, sustainability has indeed become a master term. This recognition should help us resist the temptation to dismiss it as a meaningless platitude and encourage us to ask why so many different people and interests, across so many realms of society, resort to using the same term. What is it about this term that seems so compelling at this moment in time? Approaching the topic of sustainability in this way allows us to see a deeper cultural logic at work, one that touches on some of the most fundamental assumptions about the world and our relationship to it. It is to an analysis of this cultural logic that we now turn.
The Cultural Logic of Sustainability: Thriving between Scarcity and Abundance
Discerning the cultural logic of sustainability demands that we attend seriously to critical changes in three overlapping areas. The first has to do with our changing confidence in inherited terms and concepts that once defined modern progress; the second, with changes in our answers to the question of what it means and takes to thrive; and the third, with changes to our understanding of the relationship between humans and nature. Let us take each briefly in turn.
Progress on the Defensive
Our point of entry into this first area comes with the recognition that the rhetorical force of sustainability is found in how it orients us to time. More specifically, it portends that what we do in the present has serious consequences for the future. The emotional pull of sustainability is to act now before it is too late on behalf of future generations. The semantic burden of sustainability, however, directs our attention backwards; its reference points are neither the present nor the future, as its emotional pull (and its formulations in and since Brundtland) would lead us to expect. They are historical. Sustainability's semantic interlocutors are a set of older terms such as "improvement," "development," and "growth"—all once standard watchwords for modernization. As a group, these terms have inflected the overarching master term of modern society in the West: progress.
If we are to perceive the cultural logic driving sustainability's spectacular rise and ubiquity, we will have to examine it in light of our changing relationship to these older terms and thus to our former expectations about progress itself. As we do, we begin to see that such terms no longer compel us in quite the same ways they once did. For example, industrialization, urbanization, and mass consumption are no longer seen as the unmitigated goods they once were taken to be. We are all too familiar with their negative impacts on people and the planet. While our leading institutions still depend for their legitimation on the promises of modern science, markets, and technology to deliver material and social progress, as individuals we do so hesitantly, neither fully comprehending how they work, nor knowing whether today's cutting-edge advances will turn out to be tomorrow's fatal mistakes. We recognize that our lives and livelihoods are impossible without them, but we are also aware that we can only count on them until further notice. In many important respects, the hallmarks of modern progress are on the defensive.23
Thrift and Thriving
Now consider the second area of change. If we look closely at the key words that have historically constituted our notion of progress, we see that they have, in effect, provided an evolving set of answers to what is arguably the most fundamental economic question for any society: what does it mean and take to thrive? Culturally speaking, all societies must provide some provisional set of answers to this question. However partial or contested they may be in practice, such answers give expression to some idealized vision of what human thriving looks like, just as they exhort a community to embrace particular practices and habits of wise use that are believed essential for achieving that ideal vision of thriving. Over time, these answers gather the force of custom, morality, and even law, and as they do, they become recognizable as distinct economic ethics.
For example, in the economic ethic of the American Puritans, thriving was located ultimately in the soul, which motivated members of the New England township to pursue the pious management of time and talents and to accumulate wealth as a spiritual calling, not just for individuals, but also for the whole community—á la the mythic Protestant ethic. For the Victorians, however, the picture shifted from the all-encompassing but thoroughly spiritualized condition of thriving to one focused on material wellbeing and individual frugality. This was the birth of classic thrift epitomized by Benjamin Franklin's famous maxims "time is money" and "a penny saved is a penny earned." In the Victorian era, thriving was primarily located in the individual and in family life as a reflection of financial security, middle-class respectability, and diligent philanthropy. In time, the Victorian picture of thrift and thriving would be supplanted by yet newer visions—by the rise of Progressivism in the early twentieth century, by mass consumption in the post-world war era, and so on.
It is in the ebb and flow of these economic ethics, with their distinctive visions of thrift and thriving, that we eventually locate the cultural headwaters of sustainability in the 1970s and 1980s. Before we can bring these origins more fully into view, however, we need to attend to a third area of cultural change: the pictures of nature that are operative in our economic ethics. The plausibility of any particular picture of thrift and thriving ultimately depends upon a certain implicit set of assumptions about the basic constitution of nature and its relationship to human agency—whether that relationship is fundamentally characterized by scarcity or abundance.
From Scarcity to Abundance to Sustainability
When we trace the trajectory of succeeding economic ethics over the past two hundred years, we discern a definite pattern: a broad historical arc moving from the common assumption in the nineteenth century that nature was fundamentally constituted by scarcity to a radical reversal of that assumption in the twentieth. There were compelling reasons for this shift in assumptions. Most strikingly, the period between 1800 and 2000 witnessed the greatest sustained level of economic growth in the history of humankind (see Figure C).
Figure C: "The Great Acceleration": Data extracted from Angus Maddison's "World Population, GDP, and Per Capita GDP, 1-2003 AD"24
Increases in longevity, reductions in mortality, ever-higher standards of living, greater freedoms for greater numbers and classes of people—the evidence was obvious for all to see. Even the two World Wars, a planet-wide Great Depression, and the specter of atomic destruction that haunted the decades of the Cold War could not completely dampen the "facts" of modern progress.
In a spirit of exuberance, early twentieth-century economists like Simon Patton and John Maynard Keynes understood the trajectory of what Adam Smith called the "progress of opulence," and they reversed the famously dismal conclusions of the classical economists like Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill, and David Ricardo by heralding a new era of abundance. For Keynes, humans had finally solved their economic problem—the problem of subsistence—and overcome scarcity once and for all.25 By the final third of the twentieth century, our economic conditions had shifted so dramatically that accompanying economic ethics were forced to accommodate themselves to the assumptions of the "new normal" of abundance. Unsurprisingly, not only did our conceptions of thrift and thriving have to adapt significantly along the way to a new ethic of consumption, the word "thrift," for so long indexed to a world of scarcity, seemed increasingly out of touch with reality and eventually faded from common use.
It was not long, however, before the dilemmas of this new abundance began to come more fully into view, provoking, in turn, the need for a way to account for the costs of modern progress. By the 1970s, with the rise of the modern environmental movement, mounting urban and industrial decay spreading in advanced industrial nations, not to mention the oil crisis, stagflation, and growing concerns about overpopulation, the background picture, which had only recently been in thrall to a picture of industrially produced abundance, was once again thrown into flux. Did scarcity or abundance best capture our late-modern situation? In this simple question, the implicit background perception of the limits and potential of humanity's interaction with the natural world moved to the foreground, where it became an overt and increasingly disputed issue. In the resulting epistemological confusion and ideological contestation, not only has providing a coherent and cohesive way of answering the question of thrift and thriving become a challenge, just being able to pose the question coherently has proven enormously difficult. The key terms associated with the conventional paradigm of modernization came into serious question. People began to search for new justifications, if not altogether new terms. The need to fill the semantic vacuum and either reformulate the old terms or seek out new formulations of thrift and thriving became a matter of widespread concern and mobilization. It is no coincidence that this was the point at which people began to gravitate toward the language of sustainability as a compelling way of working through the confusion about our present situation (see Figure D).
Figure D: Google Ngram: Decline of "Thrift" and Rise of "Sustainability" (1800-2012)
The rise of the rhetoric and practice of sustainability to global prominence has been meteoric since the 1970s, and today its comprehensiveness matches its pervasiveness. Whether its ascendancy as a master term has clarified our situation, either descriptively or prescriptively, remains an open question. Yet whatever else we might say about it, sustainability has become the word for our time because it aptly expresses the unsettling of our confidence in our inherited ideas about progress and thus in the background picture of our dominant economic ethic. Our visions of thriving (as sustainability) vacillate uncertainly between scarcity and abundance.
Abundance on Trial: Sustaining in the Anthropocene
Recently, the language of sustainability has found new impetus in the latest chapter heading in the cultural history of modern economic ethics: "the Anthropocene." Scientists employ this neologism (literally: "age of man") to refer to our current geological era.26 By a number of critical measures, including the fossil record; the chemistry of our air, water, and soil; rates of animal and plant extinctions; and the like, Planet Earth has moved out of the Holocene era, a relatively climatically stable era beginning approximately 10,000 years ago and into an era defined by the unpredictable but thoroughgoing impact of humankind (see Figure E).
Figure E: Indices of the Anthropocene, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme27
In dramatic fashion, the idea of the Anthropocene captures the most recent transformations taking place in our picture of the relationship between humans and the natural world: it posits a world in which humans, as a species, are not just biological agents, but also geological agents.28 Put simply, the impact of humans on the natural world is now as great, and in some instances greater, than nature's impact on humans. Against such a recognition, the cause of sustainability takes on added urgency.
At the same time, the Anthropocene brings into relief a destabilizing ambivalence running through the conceptual and rhetorical registers of sustainability, one that has been there from its initial formulation as "sustainable development." In one register, the discourse of sustainability seems to offer a sweeping retraction of modern aspirations in light of the Anthropocene and its implications. What needs sustaining is nature's (and thus also humanity's) limits. This inflection of sustainability presupposes a background picture of fundamental scarcity and judges claims of abundance to be illusory. The purported age of material surfeit enjoyed by industrialized nations for the past one hundred years, on this view, came through massive exploitation of the world's poor societies, through extensive externalization of the real costs of industrialization, and through the plundering of the finite reserves of carbon that have been stored up over eons in the depths of the earth. In short, our fabled abundance came about by overrunning critical social and planetary limits for the sake of present gains, to the benefit of only a minority of humans and at the expense of future generations and other species. The Anthropocene, on this view, represents the redlining of our critical life support systems.
Accordingly, the Anthropocene confirms what many already believed about the history of humans. As the environmental historian J. R. McNeill memorably describes it, our history consists of the movement of people from one unsustainable way of life to another.29 Those human societies that did not make the shift to a new way of life in time collapsed; those that did, very often through migration and conquest, lived on. However, the moral in the lesson of the Anthropocene is that, through the processes of modernization and globalization, the entire human species is finally reaching, indeed may already be surpassing, the outer limits of sustainability, and that this time, there is no new way of life or place to escape to. This time, we will have to live with the consequences, even as we do what we can to mitigate them by reestablishing our way of life within planetary limits.
There is another sustainability perspective, which resists such dire verdicts and considers premature the conclusion that the surpassing of natural limits is always bad. In the words of one recent proponent:
While there is nothing particularly good about a planet hotter than our ancestors ever experienced—not to mention one free of wild forests or wild fish—it seems all too evident that human systems are prepared to adapt to and prosper in the hotter, less biodiverse planet that we are busily creating. The "planetary boundaries" hypothesis asserts that biophysical limits are the ultimate constraints on the human enterprise. Yet, the evidence shows clearly that the human enterprise has continued to expand beyond the natural limits for millennia. Indeed, the history of human civilization might be characterized as a history of transgressing natural limits and thriving.30
On this view, sustainability connotes a less fixed and more adaptable sense of our situation in the Anthropocene. What needs sustaining, in this more optimistic inflection, is not so much nature's limits, but the abundance that modernity has in fact accomplished, thanks to human ingenuity and innovation thus far. This view recognizes that mistakes were made, even catastrophic ones when it comes to people and the planet, but it does not recognize nature's limits to be predetermined or unchanging. Instead, having learned from past mistakes, it urges us to engineer a smarter, more sustainable way of maintaining but also expanding a hard-won abundance for both present and future generations. Sustainability, in this latter vein, seeks a mid-course correction rather than a wholesale retraction by more intentionally working with, instead of against, the grain of nature. The Anthropocene, accordingly, is not a parable of human hubris, but rather a call to realize our fullest potential as managers of the earth and our future on it.
Conclusion: Sustaining Sustainability?
At present, we find ourselves confronted by the fact that, while the expectations of the old terms of modern progress are still valid for us, and still legitimating our leading institutions, the terms themselves no longer have the force of historical inevitability. They can no longer be automatically assumed, and they are certainly no longer unassailable. As never before, we are aware of the risks and the costs associated with the ways we have tried to formulate and implement a compelling picture of thrift and thriving both at home and globally.
As a result, we do not have a coherent and cohesive answer to the question of what it means and takes to thrive in part because we cannot agree on whether the world we relate to is one fundamentally defined by scarcity (and thus limits) or by abundance (and thus unlimited potential). We cannot agree on whether the line between scarcity and abundance is linear and absolute or iterative and relative, whether the relationship between humans and nature is synergistic or zero-sum.
The fact that so much of the discourse of sustainability contains elements of both perspectives means that there is an inherent instability in its answer to the question of thrift and thriving—an instability bordering on equivocation, if not contradiction. We have convincing reasons, therefore, for calling into question the ability of sustainability to carry the ethical and moral weight many have placed on it. Nevertheless, we should not conclude from this that the discourse of sustainability is ultimately meaningless or inconsequential. It should be clear by now that, culturally speaking, the reality is just the opposite.
Indeed, attending to this potential for equivocation presses us toward some stark realizations about contemporary society, the most critical of which raises unsettling questions about the prospects for our deepest and most cherished moral convictions. Modern civilization, at least as it developed in the West, is premised on the recognition of every individual human's equal dignity through various operations of emancipation and empowerment, from securing formal rights and protections to guaranteeing a basic threshold of material wellbeing. The groundswell of sustainability, however, signals the gradual recognition that the very processes by which modern civilization has come to realize this fundamental premise (to the extent that it has)–that is, through industrialization, urbanization, and consumption—are proving to be unsustainable. At the most profound level, the cultural logic of sustainability ultimately forces us to ask: if these fundamental socio-economic systems are not sustainable, how sustainable are our own highest ideals that have thus far depended on them for realization?
This examination of the cultural significance of sustainability has only scratched the surface and clearly cannot answer such a question; it can only raise it. More empirical, interpretive, and critical work waits to be done and is needed to determine whether sustainability is better understood as a symptom of or a solution to our perceived problems. Might it be the illness purporting to be the cure? Might it be both?
As a symptom, we will want to know how long the cultural moment to which sustainability gives expression might last. How long, in other words, will the word remain expressively and symbolically salient? How much longer will its apparent indispensability counter-balance its inherent vulnerability to equivocation between two competing worldviews and agendas? How long will it continue to override our own creeping cynicism about all key words?
We will want to know how close sustainability is to becoming a fully fledged economic ethic capable of addressing the challenges to which it also points. How satisfying are we likely to find its answer to the question, "what does it mean and take to thrive in the context of the Anthropocene era?" What about its political fortunes? Will sustainability be capable of evading the vortex of politicization in today's culture wars?
Taken together, all of these invitations for further investigation are ways of asking whether the language of sustainability is itself sustainable, whether the languages, institutional arrangements, principles, policies, and practices that today are converging under the heading of "sustainability" will eventually coalesce into something like a coherent moral ethos. In the meantime, we have already learned much by this initial examination: sustainability is, for the moment, a word that gives voice to our present fears and uncertainties about whether we live in a world of scarcity or abundance, just as it augurs and upholds our hopes for thriving in a decidedly uncertain future.
- A word of sincere appreciation goes to Stephen Macekura, Benjamin Cohen, Maegan Moore, Philip Lorish, Matthew Puffer, Jeffrey Dill, and Sarah Friedman for their assistance and constructive criticism.
- Third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, "The Stockholm Memorandum: Tipping the Scales Towards Sustainability" (18 May 2011): 3, available at <http://globalsymposium2011.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/memorandum-signed.pdf>.
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences, "Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene" (11 May 2011): 1, available at <http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/2011/PAS_Glacier_110511_final.pdf>.
- To be sure, the idea, if not the term itself, has a much older history connected to the management of forests, farmland, mineral deposits, and other "capital stocks." For a useful start to the history of sustainability, see a recent forum in Modern Intellectual History 8.1 (2011): 147–51, featuring insightful essays from Emma Rothchild, Paul Warde, and Alison Frank.
- Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, The Limits to Growth: A Report to The Club of Rome on the Predicament of Mankind (New York: Universe, 1974).
- See Andres Edwards, The Sustainability Revolution (Gabriola Island: New Society, 2005) 11–26.
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Division for Sustainable Development, "Preamble," Agenda 21: III.23.2 (2009): <http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_23.shtml>.
- University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, "Talloires Declaration" (1990): <http://www.ulsf.org/programs_talloires.html>.
- Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Jasleen Kaur, "Evolution and Structure of Sustainability Science," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2011), as cited in "After 25 Years, Sustainability Is a Growing Science That's Here to Stay, Research from Los Alamos, IU Shows" (21 November 2011): <http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/20436.html>.
- David Kiron, Nina Kruschwitz, Haanaes Knut, and Ingrid von Streng Velken, "Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point," MIT Sloan Management Review (December 2011): 2.
- Claudia Deutch, "Companies Giving Green an Office," The New York Times (3 July 2007): <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/business/03sustain.html?pagewanted=all>.
- Peter Lacy, Tim Cooper, Rob Hayward, and Lisa Neuberger, A New Era of Sustainability: UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study 2010 (June 2010) 27.
- There are, for example, the Minnesota Principles (<http://www.cebcglobal.org/index.php?/about/the-minnesota-principles/>), Oregon's 2001 Sustainability Act (<http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/184.html>) and 2004 Sustainability Plan (<http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/SUS/docs/odot_sustainability_plan_march_2004.pdf>), California's Sustainability Alliance (<http://sustainca.org/>), the City of Ottawa's ORTEE Principles (<http://placersustain.org/community/content/sustainability-principles-ontario-round-table-environment-and-economy>), and Johnson County, Kansas's Sustainability Program (<http://sustainable.jocogov.org/>).
- Timothy Luke, "The System of Sustainable Degradation," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 17.1 (2006): 99–112.
- "'Sustainable' Government," letter posted on RedState (18 December 2011): <http://www.redstate.com/jacquesusa/2011/12/18/sustainable-government/>.
- Rachel Alexander, "Agenda 21: Conspiracy Theory or Real Threat?" (2 July 2011): <http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2011/07/02/agenda_21_conspiracy_theory_or_real_threat/>.
- ICLEI Global: Global Members, <http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=11454>.
- Alexander.
- These concerns do not only reside on the fringes of the political Right, but are to some extent shared at its center. The Republican National Committee recently passed a resolution declaring its own suspicions: "the United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called 'sustainable development' views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms; all as destructive to the environment." Leslie Kaufman and Kate Zernike, "Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot," The New York Times (3 February 2012): <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/activists-fight-green-projects-seeing-un-plot.html>.
- Kaufman and Zernike.
- See Alex Newman, "Alabama Adopts First Official State Ban on Agenda 21," The New American (4 June 2012): <http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/11592-alabama-adopts-first-official-state-ban-on-un-agenda-21>.
- I owe this insight to Philip Lorish.
- To be sure, various aspects of modern progress have always had their elite critics. Today, however, the apprehension is democratized. The fear that the very institutions and technologies upon which we must rely might just be making the world less, rather than more secure and livable is never far from our minds.
- The historical data were originally developed in three books by Angus Maddison: Monitoring the World Economy 1820-1992 (Paris: OECD, 1995); The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective (Paris: OECD Development Centre, 2001); The World Economy: Historical Statistics (Paris: OECD Development Centre, 2003).
- John Keynes, "The Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren," Saturday Evening Post (11 October 1930).
- This term was coined by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in "The Anthropocene," IGBP [International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme] Newsletter 41 (2000): 17. For a more popular discussion, see "Welcome to the Anthropocene," The Economist (26 May 2011): <http://www.economist.com/node/18744401>.
- Taken from W. Steffen, A. Sanderson, P. D. Tyson, J. Jager, P. M. Matson, B. Moore, III, F. Oldfield, K. Richardson, H. J. Schnellnhuber, B. L. Turner, II, and R. J. Wasson, Global Change and The Earth System: Planet Under Pressure (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004) 132–33.
- For an enlightening discussion of this idea, see Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Climate of History," Critical Inquiry 35.2 (Winter 2009): 206.
- J. R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: Norton, 2000) 358. See also J. Donald Hughes's essay in this issue of The Hedgehog Review.
- Erle Ellis, "The Planet of No Return," Breakthrough Journal 2 (Fall 2011): 6.


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WINGATE, N.C. – The Coker softball team split a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader with Wingate on Tuesday (Apr. 8), at the Wingate University Softball Complex.
In game number one the score was all tied up at 3-3 after five innings. After a scoreless sixth inning from both teams, the Bulldogs collected a walk-off single and took the game by a slight 4-3 margin.
Sydney Weatherford notched her seventh homerun of the season, while collecting three RBI for the game. Katelyn Szupello and Stacy Burr each tallied one double and scored one run apiece.
Tabitha Allen (4-6) would be charged with the loss after giving up one run on four hits in two innings pitched.
Game number two had similar story, except this time the Cobras were able to pull out the win. In the top of the seventh, the score was tied at 2-2. Then with two outs and the bases loaded, Lauren Phillips singled through the left side to drive in the go-ahead RBI as the Cobras took a 3-2 lead. Coker was then able to shutout Wingate in the bottom of the seventh to preserve the win.
Tayler Barcomb led Coker at the plate with a homerun and two RBI, while Szupello and Carley Bailey each collected a double.
Along with the game winning RBI, Phillips (10-9) would also get the win on the mound after pitching four innings. Phillips gave up just four hits and no runs while fanning two bulldogs.
Coker will return home this Saturday (Apr. 12) to host Tusculumn in a SAC doubleheader. Game number one will start at 1:00 p.m. followed by game two at 3:00.


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JP Lim needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 80 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
I am a medical doctor and father of two beautiful children. Managing my time between career and family life can be very tricky and taxing. I am always looking for ways my family can remain connected and involved, which can be very difficult. This was the inspiration in creating this site; to help families communicate with each other despite their busy lives and stay involved especially for important events.
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I am looking for a playful, emotional simple logo to launch this international stie. I would like it to be distinctive and immediately recognizable. I am hoping to create a brand with this. The web name receives its root from the Filipino word "Gigil", which is loosely translated as "an intense urge to pinch a child's cheeks"...I hope that give you an idea of what I am aiming for with this site
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Well, I am a reading fanatic. But I can´t carry my phisical books anywhere now, as I can´t carry heavy wheights for long time because my ankle has a degeneration problem. Till a month ago, it was very hard to have a gadget that is only an e-book reader (and not a tablet) here in Brazil, you could only get it if you have a friend going abroad and buying it for you. However, both Kobo touch and Kindle are being sold here now And, seems Santa will give me one of them, as I´ve been a good girl XD
But I don´t know anyone that has a Kobo, and I don´t know which of them is better... So, if some of you can share your experiences with an e-book reader, I´d be very pleased
PS: I don´t want a smartphone or tablet, because I already have a laptop and a netbook - and I´m so scared to use them on the subway or bus and get them stealed, losing my desings and so. That´s why my mobile is a simple and old model and I want an e-book reader - it´s cheaper, easier to buy another one if something happens...


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This is the time of year when Maine's small businesses begin to receive a welcome boost from the influx of summer tourists visiting the many natural wonders the state has to offer.
Unfortunately, the seasonal economic uptick that many business owners count on may be offset by increased energy costs if President Obama has his way.
We need to protect our energy companies by supporting policies that advocate for lower-cost production, and correlating lower prices for consumers.
The president's budget includes several measures that will increase the cost of production for the nation's energy producers — costs that will be realized in home heating bills, shipping and transportation costs for Maine businesses and at the pump.
For each dollar that tourists spend in Maine each summer, there is a seven-fold multiplier for the local economy.
The days of paper production supporting this state are long gone. We must support growth in the tourism industry and the services sector generally to ensure people here in Maine continue to have access to good-paying jobs.
This summer, increased energy costs will diminish the flow of tourists into our restaurants, shops and hotels as families decide to stay home to avoid inflated travel costs.
Just as these tourism dollars provide a positive multiplier in the economy, higher energy costs provide a negative multiplier including heating and cooling costs for hotels, cooking fuel for restaurants, etc. These all generate residual effects in the larger economy.
Please call our representatives in Washington and ask them to vote "no" on President Obama's budget to save the Maine economy.
The sequester has already resulted in a month delay in the opening of Acadia National Park. Maine's tourism industry cannot sustain another blow to the bottom line this season.
Matt Leino
Let feds help to pay Maine's health care costs
In the Legislature's hearing regarding MaineCare and the Affordable Care Act and whether Maine qualifies for additional federal funding, two key points were missing.
First, Maine is eligible for increased federal funding for childless adults. In 2009, during the ACA debate, states that were "early expanders" of Medicaid raised funding concerns. Working with Congress, we secured a special provision in the law.
Maine will receive more federal funding (81 percent vs. the current 62 percent) to cover childless adults in 2014. That amount increases each year until it reaches 90 percent, just like other states receive, in 2020 and beyond.
There is full federal funding for those now on the waiting list, and another pathway in the law may qualify us for full funding for adults already on the program.
As early expanders, we knew we'd see savings through the ACA. Some of those now served by Medicaid could instead become eligible for private insurance premium tax credits offered through the new insurance exchanges and paid for by the federal government, not the state. Those savings have been cited by liberal and conservative sources.
By law, no state will receive higher funding for parents already covered. Why? All states already covered some parents (the median is 66 percent of the federal poverty level) and 18 states, including Maine, covered parents above 100 percent of the poverty level.
For decades, other states' taxpayers have subsidized Maine as we drew down millions of dollars to cover low-income citizens whose care would have been uncompensated. Those costs to Maine's health care providers would have been passed on and paid by all insurance premium payers.
In making more people eligible for Medicaid over the past two decades, Maine has secured significant federal funding — dollars that other states did not receive.
Trish Riley
There's just no reason for women to go backward
To some female legislators of the Maine House and Senate: How could you be a "right-to-work" supporter when the only place in the work force that a woman gets equal pay for equal work is in a union shop in this country and state?
Right-to-work = backward. Ladies, unions have been there for you since the beginning of unions. Time to be there for the unions. We as a people can't get to a place that, no matter who you are, you are treated equally. Even in the United States, women are treated as less valuable, except when they are in a union. Come on, ladies.
Paul Paquette
Objections to oil from tar sands based on evidence
Those in opposition to tar sands oil have received harsh criticism as of late.
State Sen. Roland Collins recently wrote ("Oil sands should be part of energy mix," April 7) that "the people of Maine deserve a fact-based debate on the real issues rather than scare tactics that consistently ignore findings from credible sources."
In response, I would like to remind the public that tar sands oil is by no means safe for our state and in fact, poses a very serious threat.
Unfortunately, both Michigan and Arkansas have served as our fact-checkers for the tar sands debate.
Given that families were still being forced to evacuate their homes almost two weeks after the Arkansas spill, I feel that it is both insensitive and illogical to suggest that there is any redeeming incentive for the transportation of tar sands.
In addition to being a nightmare for Arkansas residents, the spill gives us glimpse of the very real consequences we should anticipate should tar sands transport be allowed through our state.
Similar to the project contemplated for Maine, the Arkansas pipeline was very old and repurposed to accommodate Canadian tar sands oil.
Regardless of the state-of-the-art equipment used to incrementally inspect the pipe, it inevitably burst.
We need to learn from the disasters in Mayflower, Ark., and Michigan's Kalamazoo River and not repeat the same process and hope for different results.
For the sake of our health, public safety and the environment, U.S. Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins should demand that President Obama and the State Department require a thorough environmental review of any project that would carry tar sands anywhere near Sebago Lake and Casco Bay.
Maine has nothing to gain and everything to lose with the reversal of the Portland-to-Montreal pipeline.
Madeline Ray
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Sweet Baboo and I watch our two granddollies on Monday afternoons while their parents work. They're five and two and a half now and love to glue pompoms and buttons and other scraps of paper onto big pieces of paper. They love to have me make them a tent/fort/cave with a card table with a couple of blankets thrown over the top. They love having their pillows and blankets in the tent/fort/cave with them, along with assorted babies and snacks.
And coolest of cool — they LOVE watching Fraggle Rock on Netflix. Their mother adored that show when she was little and their dad told me that he also loved watching it. I'm thrilled that I don't have to listen to Dora and Boots for awhile. =). Not that there's anything wrong with Dora and Boots, but if you've seen one you've seen all 800.
Today the granddollies also discovered the animated series, so they have even more episodes to watch. Isn't it incredibly cool that a twenty something year old program still has the legs to attract a new generation of viewers!!!


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Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has taught that the Spirit of Elijah is "a manifestation of the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the divine nature of the family."1
As members of Christ's restored Church, we have the covenant responsibility to search for our ancestors and provide for them the saving ordinances of the gospel. They without us cannot "be made perfect" (Hebrews 11:40), and "neither can we without our dead be made perfect" (D&C 128:15).
Family history work prepares us for the blessings of eternal life and helps us increase our faith and personal righteousness. Family history is a vital part of the mission of the Church and enables the work of salvation and exaltation for all.
President Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said: "When we research our own lines we become interested in more than just names. … Our interest turns our hearts to our fathers—we seek to find them and to know them and to serve them."2
From the Scriptures
From Our History
The Prophet Joseph Smith taught, "The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead."3 We can serve as proxy in the temple for our deceased ancestors and perform necessary ordinances for them.
Sally Randall of Nauvoo, Illinois, whose 14-year-old son died, found great comfort in the promise of eternal families. After her husband was baptized for their son, she wrote to her relatives: "What a glorious thing it is that we … can be baptized for all of our dead [ancestors] and save them as far back as we can get any knowledge of them." Then she asked her relatives to send her information on their ancestors, saying, "I intend to do what I can to save [our family]."4


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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein told Charlie Rose his most important skill on the job is to worry about everything.
"I am a highly functional paranoid," said the chairman and CEO of one of the biggest banks on Wall Street.
Blankfein was joking, but he told the Bloomberg TV host on Tuesday that he is concerned about everything.
"When the phone rings too late at night or too early in the morning I\'m going, \"Oh my God, what happened?\" and "if it stopped ringing I\'d call everybody I knew at work to find out what I missed," said the CEO of one of the biggest firms on Wall Street.
Goldman Sachs is ranked as one of the largest investment banks in the world with nearly $10 billion in annual revenue.
Several former CEOs, including Henry Paulson and Robert Rubin, have gone on to serve in high-profile government roles. The investment bank can call billionaire Warren Buffett a backer after he injected $5 billion of capital into the firm during the financial crisis as a show of confidence.
Blankfein talked candidly about why the storied Wall Street bank is so successful and one step ahead of the competition.
"I think we aspire less to foresee the future and more to be a great contingency planner… you can respond very fast to what\'s happening because you thought through all the possibilities," Blankfein said.
\"I\'m in the risk management business, so I don\'t take it for granted,\" added the CEO.
— Sital S. Patel
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Mejia cruises early, d'Arnaud homers vs. Jays
MONTREAL -- Chants of "Let's go Expos!" ricocheted off Olympic Stadium's walls and roof, generating higher decibels than a crowd of 46,121 usually can. The Expos were not playing, of course; Friday's game pitted the Mets and Blue Jays against each other for the first of two exhibitions.
Still, the cacophony corroborated the claims of so many here, that Montreal is again capable of supporting a Major League team.View Full Game Coverage
MONTREAL -- Chants of "Let's go Expos!" ricocheted off Olympic Stadium's walls and roof, generating higher decibels than a crowd of 46,121 usually can. The Expos were not playing, of course; Friday's game pitted the Mets and Blue Jays against each other for the first of two exhibitions.
Still, the cacophony corroborated the claims of so many here, that Montreal is again capable of supporting a Major League team.View Full Game Coverage
Whether that ever happens remains to be seen. In the interim, Montreal's fans made do with one of the more supercharged exhibitions any team has played in recent memory. Ten years after the Expos played their final game here, Ricardo Nanita led the Blue Jays to a walk-off 5-4 win over the Mets amid a playoff atmosphere.
"It was tremendous," said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. "They started rocking there in the middle of the game; I thought it was going to collapse. It's a great preparation for us to get ready for the start of the season."
"I thought it was great for the city of Montreal," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "I thought it was good for baseball. I really did. Both teams really responded to [the atmosphere]. Usually this time in spring, guys are looking for ways to get out of the lineup. Tonight they wanted to stay in the lineup because of the fans."
After Munenori Kawasaki doubled to lead off the bottom of the ninth and moved to third on Melky Cabrera's groundout, Mets closer Bobby Parnell hit Edwin Encarnacion to load the bases. That brought up Nanita, who ripped a single back up the middle.
As the crowd roared, the Blue Jays rushed the field to meet Nanita.
"When the fans started stomping on the ground, it got really loud," said Toronto third baseman Brett Lawrie. "It was a lot of fun. There was a good energy in the building and definitely good to come away with the win."
Fighting for the lone remaining unsettled spot on New York's Opening Day roster, starter Jenrry Mejia cruised early, allowing his only run on Jose Bautista's homer leading off the fourth. Mejia gave up just four other hits and a walk, striking out three, but departed after taking a comebacker off his right forearm with no outs in the fifth.
The final tuneup for Blue Jays starter Mark Buehrle also went mostly as planned, with four innings of two-run ball. Chris Young's two-run double in the fourth inning was the only damage against him.
An inning later, Daniel Murphy plated Ruben Tejada with a double, extending the Mets' lead to two runs. Travis d'Arnaud, who spent three years in the Blue Jays organization before headlining the trade that sent R.A. Dickey to Toronto, later cranked a solo homer off Long Island native Marcus Stroman to give the Mets some insurance. But the Blue Jays tied the score on Encarnacion's two-run single off Gonzalez Germen in the seventh, sending tens of thousands of Canadian fans into a frenzy.
For Montreal's citizens, this weekend's games create an informal opportunity to petition the return of baseball to Quebec. Former Expos outfielder Warren Cromartie, who has been an active voice in the movement to relocate one of Major League Baseball's teams back to Canada, stirred the crowd before the game with an impassioned plea.
"I guess I'm a loyalist," Cromartie said. "I know it's an ambitious journey, but I know in time people will start listening."
Cromartie, Tim Raines and Steve Rogers took part in a pregame ceremony honoring Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, drawing raucous cheers from all in attendance.
"It's a great city, and they put together some great teams," said Collins, whose first Major League victory came against the Expos. "If they want a team that bad, then I hope the support is better than it was when they shut it down. I always look at baseball fans as baseball fans. It doesn't matter who's playing; if you're a baseball fan, you can watch the games. So certainly, if they get a team back here ... They've had the support in the past, there's no reason why they shouldn't get it again."
Up next: The Mets and Blue Jays play another exhibition in a free MLB.TV broadcast on Saturday at 1:05 p.m. ET at Olympic Stadium, with Daisuke Matsuzaka squaring off against fellow right-hander Brandon Morrow. It is the final spring game for both clubs, and it should be another loud one; stadium officials expect Saturday's attendance to surpass Friday's crowd of 46,121.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo.


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Bike to Work (Forwarded from TulsaNow)
Hello there my fine TulsaNow friends,
This forum has long provided a great sounding board for a lot of ideas on how to make Tulsa a better, more attractive place to live. It has also prompted a few of you to say "Let's stop talking, and do something about it." Well, now is your chance: The 2007 Bike to Work season is upon us.
Why? There are so many reasons. It's healthy. It's one less car on the road. It's gallons of gas not bought and burned. It's less smog in our air. And, in this persons opinion, among the many elements that make up a "great" city, being a great place to ride a bike is one of them. Bottomline, Tulsa needs to be a bicycle friendly community.
You can do your part! I won't pretend to speak for you.... Maybe you don't give a flip about bicycling, or you just don't have any of those super-attractive tight outfits those hardcore riders are always sporting, or your bike is so old that you still have coaster brakes and playing cards in your spokes. Not to worry! There is no dress code for Bike to Work day, and in case you didn't know, that old Sting-Ray is back in style. And if you don't care about bicycling yourself, that's ok too. More bikes on the road just means more room on the road for your Hummer. I digress.
SO....lube up that chain, hop on, and ride to work with us to our kickoff event on Wednesday, May 16th. We are meeting down at the Blue Dome Diner from 7:00 am to 8:30 am. And breakfast is on us. Well, at least those delicious, homemade breakfast sandwiches they make at the Blue Dome are on us.
Let's make a statement! Everyone who can, ride and join us in solidarity. Should Tulsa be a more Bike Friendly place? You bet it should. How is that going to happen? We have to be a loud voice for change. We have to organize. Mostly, we have to ride our bikes. The more riders we have, the more visibility we have, and the more likely it is that those who can make the changes will notice.
I hope we can make this the largest Bike to Work event in the State. OKC is having their event on that Friday, as is Norman. So help us make sure that we remain the biking capital of Oklahoma on Wednesday May 16th.
More info at http://www.green-traveler.org/
P.S. For those who plan to ride with us all season long (May through Sept 15th) the Bike to Work Tracker is back in business. Track your bike to work miles weekly and be entered to win monthly prizes. All participants will receive a report showing how many miles you have peddled.
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I want logo and social media headers for a saree shop. The logo must look attractive, stylish, Indian. The logo must be legible when printed on labels, price tags, invoices and bills. It must look good in both color and black and white. Source file delivery is a must. Selected bidder must provide revisions if requested during the design process.
Design 3 headers for our new web site
I need stationary dproducts social media headers + 20 pics for ads my products
Create php script to dynamically convert csv data feed to tabbed with modified headers. When loaded the script must pull original data feed from a url, then convert and return updated data.
Need someone to fix headers and titles font sizes for a website on the mobile side
error >>> Invalid CSV Header: Missing headers Title. Please only if the work can really be about 35 excel sheets all this error only I send files you edit send back
I need multiple banner( headers) for a website
I have 50 skills that need Short SEO Headers. Example skill: JavaScript Short SEO Header: The right JavaScript professional can take your website design to new levels. Example skill: Wix Short SEO Header: Hiring a Wix professional can bring a new level of exposure to your business. Just one sentence. Context is the advantage of hiring a professional
I have a small PHP form to PDF that used to work fine. Nothing in the code has changed. Now when you attempt to run the file, the header is missing (logo, my business info etc.. about 2inches of info) and I get an error which displays what line is having a problem and the output problem. ALSO: I have already checked if there is a space after php>
I'll give MS Word files of aound 300 pages. need someone to format as per book norms e.g. font, line spacing, page numbers, page size, table of contents, etc.
graphic design facebook headers
I am searching for a designer for web, for sliders design and banners
...wordpress instant articles plugin which can be viewed here: [fazer login para ver a URL] Facebook offers support for setting up video-based headers: [fazer login para ver a URL] The plugin does not appear to have native support for this so I need someone to write some code to
I want to fix the Clickjacking and Missing Security headers on the website. Strict-Transport-Security Content-Security-Policy X-Frame-Options X-XSS-Protection Referrer-Policy Feature-Policy I need it to be fixed ASAP. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you Rahul
...read the entire project and review the url below before placing your bid.**** I need someone to duplicate 2 headers on the links below. The headers should look and function just like the headers on the images below. Again, I only need the headers. I do not need the body or anything else. I can send you a zip of the files. The header should include
We need to convert two excel files which contains merge fields into two different text files that we can then import to Indesign using style tags. The Excel file is properly formatted. It needs to be merged into something like the following, where the Firm Name is displayed, followed by each person's name in the excel file associated with that firm name (break header). The resulting text fil...
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I need you to develop some software for me. I would like this software to be developed for Linux using Python.
I need headers added to my script and also need for the script to update the headers result as they change every request made
I need you to develop some software for me. I would like this software to be developed for Linux using Python.
Find pictures, edit if needed. E-commerce business which sells different kind of stuff. An internet shop. I am looking for creative and artistic experienced graphic designer. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ All information I will give in the chat with You! See you soon =)
...Canada. We create live menu boards for our customers that are custom designed to match the customers brand, logo, and store layout. We believe in creating amazing designs to help our clients stand out. We are looking to add someone to our team that can use the clients branding, logo and store aesthetic to create an original, unique design for the clie...
I need you to calculate the hash out for the new header the host is using. It's pretty much the header request hashed three times. Also, i need to find a way to bypass the certificate pinning host is doing.
Your job is to analyze a website from the outside to find possible causes for blank Adsense ads (randomly) Budget $40
We are a project management company and our people are all educated and experienced developers. We love to code, but we even more love to guide projects to success. We usually get an A++ rating for our project management on the different platforms we work on. For now we have a nice little project. We need to implement a link with an API Server to get all kind of financial data of. Because of th...
Need someone who can generate email headers footers and templates with staff images on them. Please be prepared to show samplea of previous work
We are looking for an expert graphic designer who has experience making email templates. Please be ready to show previous sample work .
...need 5 website Banners for my client. I will provide Text only. Design should be yours. I can certainly guide for pictures of products goes on the banner. Basically one is a perfume business and others are computer and cell phones. we need on banners includes vector such as companies logo (not jpg). 4 Banners are 1800 x 705 ( Text is same but different
...Twitter account that align with our branding guidelines (including use of proper font) and include images and dates. Both headers should be complementary but have different images, and images that have not been used previously. Both headers need to include the following text: Calgary's Health and Fitness Expo January 12 & 13, 2019 Big Four, Calgary Stampede
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...light copy edit with someone well versed in MS Word: 1. All the double spaces, double periods and double commas removed. 2. All misspelled words corrected. 3. All chapter headers removed from the Title page of each chapter 4. All chapter Even page headings corrected to reflect chapter title 5. Page numbering checked for contiguous numbering 6. Table
Analyse and write a report confirming the origin of an email based on the email header
i would need custom designed headers for an I.T website still being built, 2 - headers for the Home page 1 - About US page 1 - Security Page 1 - Web development PAge 1 - Brand Strategy Page 1 - Social Media Marketing Page 1 - Live Stream page 1 - Business System Management Page
I am looking for two business logos a watermark, letterhead and business cards. I have a company ALT Career Solutions that does business as Driver Career Solutions. I need a logo for each that goes together. The Driver Career Solutions focuses on Semi Truck Drivers and the ALT Career Solutions is the corporation name that oversees all my businesses.
The current workbook contains data under header columns that are in irregularly spaced rows. I require the header cells for each section to be copied to new columns in rows containing the section cells. There are 4 sheets in the workbook that require the same conversion.


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Talking Fashion Giles
Mar 12 2009
Filmed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this 'Talking Fashion' evening brings together journalist Hywel Davies and fashion designer Giles Deacon. Pro...
Ruth Hogben, Gareth Pugh, Simon Costin, Natasa Vojnovic, Matthew Stone and Katie Shillingford
Gareth Pugh A/W 2009
Mar 4 2009
Giving his blockbuster imagination a suitably cinematic showcase, instead of a catwalk show Gareth Pugh chose to present his Autumn/Winter 2009 collect...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Charlotte Stockdale
Black / White
Feb 26 2009
Incorporating the cream of Spring/Summer 2009's monochromatic fashions, Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben's fashion film was captured on set during Knight's ...
Ruth Hogben, Stephen Jones, Michael Howells, Oriole Cullen, Clive Booth and Antonio Silva
Hats Off
Feb 23 2009
Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition 'Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones' at London's Victoria and Albert museum in February 2009, SHOWstudio...
Marcus Werner Hed, Louise Goldin and Alexander Fury
Feb 18 2009
A ten part series exclusively filmed alongside award-winning designer Louise Goldin and team during the realisation of her Autumn/Winter 2009 collectio...
Antony Price and Alexander Fury
Antony Price: For Your Pleasure
Feb 17 2009
Rock's favourite couturier, an unparalleled master of modern made-to-measure occassionwear or the most criminally overlooked designer in British fashio...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Lily Donaldson
Feb 4 2009
Featuring highly-strung fashions from Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen springing into vibrant life, 'Fringed' animates t...
Hussein Chalayan and Alexander Fury
From Fashion And Back
Jan 30 2009
To mark the opening of Hussein Chalayan's first UK solo exhibition 'From Fashion And Back' at London's Design Museum in January 2009, SHOWstudio showca...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Lily Donaldson, Sam McKnight, Val Garland and Jonathan Kaye
Let There Be Light
Jan 23 2009
Allowing unprecedented insight into a Nick Knight photo shoot, SHOWstudio shed light on every nitty-gritty detail as he works with model-of-the-moment ...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Delta Maid, Jonathan Kaye and Alexander Fury
Make Up Your Mind
Dec 11 2008
We play mind games with this decidedly Surreal fashion excursion, starring Maison Martin Margiela's Spring 2009 'Wig-Coat' in perpetual, oddly seductiv...
Yohji Yamamoto and Max Vadukul
Coming Soon
Dec 5 2008
Working once again with Max Vadukul, the first photographer to create the now-seminal Yohji Yamamoto womenswear catalogues in the 1980s, these two 'Com...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Gareth Pugh, Matthew Stone, Katie Shillingford and Alex Box
Nov 19 2008
Conjuring a macabre phantasmagoria that unfurls before your eyes like a sinister but beautiful bloom, Insensate showcases the brutal geometry and raw c...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Lily Donaldson
Nov 5 2008
Nick Knight's fashion film, Fantasia, is a free-wheeling exploration of joyous, unbridled movement in model and clothing alike. Harness to this the rio...
Nick Knight and Sissel Tolaas
Sep 25 2008
An ongoing collaboration with scent artist Sissel Tolaas, SHOWstudio investigates the concept of creating a fragrance on the Internet. Based on a provo...
Julie Verhoeven
Knee Deep In Your Eyes
Jun 17 2008
Created in collaboration with London-based N/A, illustrator Julie Verhoeven's 'Knee Deep in Your Eyes' is a visual treat, taking you on a spiraling mag...
Gareth Pugh, Sølve Sundsbø, Rebecca & Mike, Pfadfinderei, Khaya, Joël Tettamanti, Grégoire Alexandre, Ewen Spencer, Erdil Yaşaroğlu, Dominic Wilcox, Claudio Sinatti, Boxie, Artemy Lebedev, Alexandre Farto and +41 //DIY
1-1 The Art of Football
Jun 2 2008
In Summer 2008 SHOWstudio partnered with Nike to challenge established and emerging artists, designers and creatives to devise new work inspired by the...
Tony Ryan, Pinny Grylls, Patricia Belford, Kate Storey, Helen Storey and Alice Dellal
May 26 2008
Product of a groundbreaking collaboration between artist and fashion designer Helen Storey and scientist Tony Ryan, 'Wonderland' used fashion as a 'Tro...
Toyin and Stevie Westgarth
Eyes Of The Beholder
May 8 2008
In collaboration with Replay, SHOWstudio invited photographer and filmmaker Toyin to turn her signature, romantic lens on the Italian denimwear company...
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, Ruth Hogben, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Gideon Ponte and Joe Corré
White Wedding
Apr 28 2008
The product of a grand collaboration between Nick Knight and lingerie giant Agent Provocateur to mark the launch of the label's bridal range, 'White We...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Freja Beha Erichsen
Mar 19 2008
If clothes maketh the man and your purpose is to demonstrate the masculinity of the Spring/Summer 2008 Womens' collections, then who better to explore ...
Nick Knight
Mar 7 2008
Filmed amidst the nuts-and-bolts of the photographic shoot, Showtime is a sneak preview of Nick Knight's editorial for the April 2008 edition of Britis...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Natalia Vodianova
Natalia V
Feb 27 2008
In tandem with his shoot for supermodel Natalia V's guest-edited issue of Russian Vogue, Nick Knight captured this fashion film featuring the world-fam...
Stefano Pilati
Collection Homme A/W 2008
Jan 24 2008
To show his Autumn/Winter 2008 menswear collection for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, creative director Stefano Pilati broke the mould of the traditio...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Bernhard Willhelm
Men In Tights
Jan 10 2008
To showcase his Autumn/Winter 2008 menswear collection, Bernhard Willhelm created a fashion film with Nick Knight during January 2008. In advance of th...
Kate Moss, Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Roddy Lumsden and Jonathan Kaye
Flowers For Kate
Nov 15 2007
Say it with flowers: In December 2007 Nick Knight photographed a story for the March/April 2008 issue of V magazine, featuring the one and only Kate Mo...
Yumiko Suzuki, Yasuhiro Tsuchiya, Takumi Iwata, Paul Hetherington, Kenji Hirasawa, Kai Ohta, Ayako Hayamizu, Andrew Gow and Penny Martin
Designer Purikura
Oct 12 2007
Showcasing a new genre of amateur print photography that has emerged from South East Asia over the past decade - Purikura - SHOWstudio invited a Tokyo-...
Nick Knight, Shaun Cole and Alister Mackie
Sep 27 2007
Invited by AnOther Man magazine to shoot men's underwear for its Autumn/Winter 2007 issue, Nick Knight and Alister Mackie shot new work by a range of d...
Aitor Throup and Jez Tozer
The Funeral Of New Orleans - Part One
Sep 10 2007
For his first catwalk presentation, menswear designer Aitor Throup collaborated with photographer Jez Tozer to create 'The Funeral of New Orleans - Par...
Nick Knight, Sam McKnight, Miranda Joyce, Jonathan Kaye, Agyness Deyn and Adam Mufti
The Nominees
Jun 4 2007
Created by Nick Knight for the 2007 CFDA Awards, The Nominees features Agyness Deyn clad in the cream of American fashion. Oscar de la Renta, Proenza S...
Penny Martin, Ross Phillips, Paul Hetherington and Harry Hanrahan
Apr 1 2007
In April 2007, SHOWstudio staged 'Revue' - a live 'happening' in association with PlayStation 3. The event was attended by an intimate audience of fift...
John Galliano
Le Mauvais Garcon
Mar 30 2007
In this exclusive film for SHOWstudio, John Galliano lets us in on how he really makes his fashions. With Morgane Dubled starring as la merveilleuse in...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Lily Donaldson
Ice Cream
Mar 9 2007
Captured during Nick Knight's shoot for 2006's Visionaire 49, the 'Decades' issue, 'Ice Cream' features unique pieces from the impressive Maison Martin...
Nick Knight, John Galliano, Ruth Hogben and Simon Foxton
Feb 20 2007
Invited by Arena Homme Plus magazine to photograph the highlights of John Galliano's outlandish Autumn/Winter 2007-2008 collection, Nick Knight and Sim...
Penny Martin and Benjamin Seroussi
Haute Couture S/S 2007
Jan 18 2007
Sent directly from the opulent venues, taxis en route to the shows and after les defilés, SHOWstudio Editor in Chief Penny Martin captured the magic of...
Craig McDean
48 Girls
Jan 10 2007
'48 Girls' is taken from footage captured on the set of Craig McDean's shoot for the September 2006 issue of Paris Vogue, featuring 48 motion portraits...
Nick Knight, Naomi Campbell, Kev Stenning and Daniel Brown
Naomi Campbell: Statuesque
Dec 25 2006
Statuesque is the word for Naomi Campbell, an icon of our time who, it seems, can inflame opinion in any observer. Statuesque is also the word for Naom...
Nick Knight, Gareth Pugh, Simon Foxton, Rebecca & Mike, Paul Bruty, Marios Schwab, Jonathan Kaye, Giles, Fred Butler, Francesca Burns, Christopher Kane and Alexis Marguerite Teplin
Twelve Days
Dec 6 2006
For 2006, SHOWstudio celebrated the twelve days of Christmas in collaboration with Swarovski and twelve of our most fashionable friends. In true SHOWst...
Lily Cole
Phonecarte: Lily Cole
Oct 1 2006
Model Lily Cole acted as your insider guide to Paris Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2007. Phoned in directly from backstage at the shows, prior fitting...
Yorick Blumenfeld, Penny Martin, Paul Hetherington, Paul Barnes, Olivier Alary, Erwin Blumenfeld and Adam Mufti
Experiments In Advertising: The Films Of Erwin Blumenfeld
Sep 25 2006
A unique chance to see the undiscovered, historic film footage of one of the most influential fashion photographers of all time. Three landmark fashion...
Ross Phillips, Marie O'Connor and Laura Bradley
The Sound Of Clothes: Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum
Jul 24 2006
A playful series of interactive that harness the human voice to bring the season's chicest accoutrements to life, 'Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum' relies on th...
Nick Knight, Zora Star, Ross Phillips, Penny Martin, Paul Hetherington, Laura Bradley and Dorian Moore
The Sound Of Clothes: Anechoic
Apr 20 2006
Anechoic is a 'collections story' that uses sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments from the Autumn/Winter 2006 collections b...
Nick Knight, Susannah Frankel, Nick Ryan and Daniel Brown
The Sound Of Clothes: Synaesthesia
Apr 4 2006
Using the notion of 'pictures for the blind' as a stimulus, Nick Knight and digital artist Daniel Brown collaborated with synaesthete and sound designe...
Nick Knight, John Galliano, Sam McKnight, William Chang, Vladimir Boboshin, Saulyus Chyamolonskas, Sam Sneade, Rupert Angarita-Dodds, Reza Bahrami, Olivier Alary, Nigel Buck, Mike Figgis, Michael Blackburn, John Gosling, Joanna Swan, Greg Perler, Gemma Ward, Egoli Editing Team, Craig Armstrong, Christopher Seguine, Charles Nartey Mezo, Ben Trill, Apurva Asrani and Anna Span
Editing Fashion
Dec 19 2005
An offshoot from 2005's three-month 'Moving Fashion' project, the fashion film season 'Editing Fashion' shifted the focus of SHOWstudio's exploration o...
Nick Knight and Antony Hegarty
Nov 25 2005
In November 2005, SHOWstudio offered its international audience the unique opportunity to have their own photographic work featured in a Nick Knight ph...
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, John Galliano, Gareth Pugh, Stephen Jones, !WOWOW!, Val Garland, Simon Foxton, Sam McKnight, David Bailey, Willy Vanderperre, Toyin, Tom Hingston, Steven Klein, Stella Tennant, Stella McCartney, Sølve Sundsbø, Shona Heath, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Liz Collins, Linda Evangelista, Lily Cole, Katy England, Katie Grand, Karen Elson, Julien D'Ys, Jonathan Kaye, Jason Evans, Hiromix, Glen Luchford, Gemma Ward, Francesca Burns, Fabien Baron, Emma Reeves, Eamonn Hughes, Christian Louboutin, Alister Mackie, Alice Hawkins, Kate Phelan, Tim Walker, Bay Garnett and Marian Newman
Moving Fashion
Sep 29 2005
The printed page has determined the way fashion looks since women's magazines were first introduced. Nick Knight's key motivation for founding SHOWstud...
Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Liberty Ross, Richard Kern, Philippe Garner, Jonathan Kaye, Jonathan De Villiers, Ann-Sofie Back and Andrea Dworkin
Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down
Jun 28 2005
Exploring the idea of control in fashion image-making, 'Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down' offered SHOWstudio viewers the chance to dress Liberty Ross in a li...
Simon Foxton, Penny Martin, Michael Bracewell and Charlotte Cotton
Sittings: Thirty Men
Apr 1 2005
Over April 2005, Simon Foxton styled 30 models as 'living magazine pages', seated in front of a webcam. Via telephone, the 'Sittings' models could take...
Ada Fung and Stephen Willats
Multiple Clothing
Mar 8 2005
'Multiple Clothing' presented a selection of clothing-based works by British artist Stephen Willats' that spanned 40 years of practice.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai Group, an investment vehicle owned by the emirate's ruler, will become an independent company after its planned $10 billion debt restructuring, a top official said.
The company, which is a unit of Dubai Holding, the investment arm of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, expects to sign an agreement with its creditors on the restructuring in six weeks, said Ahmad Bin Byat, chief executive of Dubai Holding.
"We expect the deal to be signed within six weeks. The term sheet is now approved by the core creditors committee and is being circulated to the credit committee," Bin Byat told Reuters on Thursday.
The proposed Dubai Group deal is the last big debt restructuring related to the emirate's 2008-2009 financial crisis that has not yet been agreed. Complex talks on the deal have dragged on for over three years.
On Wednesday, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that unsecured creditors had been sent final restructuring documents, and that agreement was expected to be reached between banks and Dubai Group by June 6.
After the restructuring, Dubai Group's board will include representatives from creditor banks and shareholders, as well as independent members, Bin Byat said.
The proposal includes asset sales, though Dubai Group does not expect to dispose of any of its major assets this year, he said. Assets include a 14.7 percent stake in Oman's top lender, Bank Muscat BMAO.OM, and 18 percent of Egypt's EFG Hermes (HRHO.CA). Dubai Group also owns part of Borse Dubai BRSDB.UL, which holds 20.6 percent of the London Stock Exchange.
Dubai Group's creditors are being asked to extend their obligations for between 3.5 and 12 years, depending on the assets secured against their exposure, to allow the company's assets to recover in value before divestment.
For unsecured creditors, who have been offered a 12-year extension, there is an option to be repaid after five years, albeit at a discount.
The restructuring would see Dubai Group's debt removed from the balance sheet of parent Dubai Holding.
"As of yesterday, the debt was on Dubai Holding's books. But once the agreement is signed, I can say as of today, $10 billion debt is off our books and will be carried by the owners of Dubai Group," Bin Byat said.
"Dubai Group still has to pay Dubai Holding $4 billion of internal debt, and that's why we will be sitting on the board along with creditors. Dubai Group will remain at arm's length."
(Writing by Dinesh Nair; Editing by Andrew Torchia)
This story is refiled to remove reference to creditors taking equity stake after company corrects earlier statement, and says creditors will not receive any equity


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by Jillian MacMath, staff writer for AccuWeather.com.
AccuWeather.com reports the tropics are already heating up and Atlantic hurricane season will begin in a few days. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Thursday, predicting another active season. The agency's predictions are in line with AccuWeather.com's forecast, which was released on May 15.
NOAA predicts 13 to 20 named storms total, between seven and 11 of which will be hurricanes, and three to six of which will become major hurricanes. The season average is 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
"Everybody seems to be in agreement that this is going to be another very active year in the Atlantic," said AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Dan Kottlowski.
NOAA also matched the AccuWeather long-range prediction that the 2013 season may unleash stronger storms than in the past couple of years.
"As we saw first-hand with Sandy, it's important to remember that tropical storm and hurricane impacts are not limited to the coastline," NOAA's forecast reads. "Strong winds, torrential rain, flooding and tornadoes often threaten inland areas far from where the storm first makes landfall."
Though the agency does not issue predictions for U.S. landfalls, AccuWeather.com has predicted three this season. Areas of particular concern include the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the East Coast.
As the official start of the season nears, there is some information that suggests support for June or July development, Kottlowski said. Development in the Eastern Pacific next week could help lead to development in the Caribbean or southern Gulf of Mexico in the early part of June.
"People need to have a hurricane plan in order now, or be developing one now, not waiting until a hurricane or tropical storm starts showing up on weather maps," Kottlowski said. "I can't emphasize that enough."