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Industrial farming head just says ‘no’ to call for civility
For those of you wondering if we can have a more civil discourse over food and agriculture in this country, American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman has an answer for […]
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Pesticides loom large in animal die-offs
Yale’s Environment 360 has a new must-read report by Sonia Shah linking pesticides to the high-profile die-offs among amphibians, bees, and bats. What makes this news timely isn’t necessarily the […]
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The melting of America
This was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. Lately, I’ve been studying the climate-change induced melting of glaciers in the Greater Himalaya. Understanding the […]
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Everyone Poops – – and a few spin gold
Thanks to the global effort to cut carbon, we could soon be spinning waste of all kinds -- including poop -- into big bucks.
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Transportation bill could produce environmental and job benefits in 2010
As advocates for clean energy and good jobs evaluate opportunities to advance their issues in 2010 — from a jobs bill that could include energy efficiency measures to a federal […]
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How do I find a green job?
This is the time-honored question, one I get asked so frequently, from very qualified individuals, that I decided to answer it online. It is heartbreaking (and encouraging) how many skilled […]
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U.S. car fleet shrank by four million in 2009
America’s century-old love affair with the automobile may be coming to an end. The U.S. fleet has apparently peaked and started to decline. In 2009, the 14 million cars scrapped […]
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It takes a community to sustain a small farm
A local grocery store in Pleasantville, Iowa.Wikimedia Commons These days it seems the most popular person to be in the food system is the “local farmer.” Farmers markets are popping […]
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The world in 2020: China, the U.S., the global South, and the planet
This was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. As the second decade of the twenty-first century begins, we find ourselves at one of those […]
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Economics as pathology, part two
The other day I complained about an article by Brookings economist Ted Gayer. So did Brad DeLong, Paul Krugman, Ryan Avent, and Ezra Klein. As I am a nobody writing […]
