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• WTFood?!

  12 things you should never put in your mouth [slideshow]

  Posted 12 Mar 2010 1:45 PM

  You cannot imagine the stuff that passes for food. Lucky for you, we have found ample photographic evidence. Read More

• SOIL YOURSELF

  Websites that connect would-be farmers to land are blooming

  Posted 12 Mar 2010 12:57 PM By Bonnie Azab Powell

  A new website aims to help young and/or beginning farmers find affordable land on which to grow sustainably in the Midwest. Read More

• A lesson from Denmark

  Carbon neutral caution 1

  Posted 12 Mar 2010 12:17 PM By Eric de Place

  There's been a lot of ambitious talk lately about carbon neutrality. It's exciting stuff, but it's worth pausing to consider just how huge that challenge is. And what, precisely, does it mean? Zero emissions, or lots of offsets? Read More

• Don't you antitrust us

  Seedy tactics in Iowa and Norway in the news this week

  Posted 12 Mar 2010 11:40 AM By Bonnie Azab Powell

  The Feds hear whether chemical/seed giant Monsanto needs to be trust-busted, while "Doomsday" seed vault passes half-million mark in Norway. Read More

• Good in bed

  Ask Umbra’s pearls of wisdom on sleeping

  Posted 12 Mar 2010 12:00 AM By Umbra Fisk

  Umbra stumbles around the archives in her robe and slippers for shuteye-related advice to celebrate National Sleep Awareness Week and prep for the time change this weekend. Read More

• Dumb grids 7

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 4:48 PM By Sean Casten

  The smart grid conversation is stupid. Policies to encourage smart grids are at best minor distractions, and at worst contrary to the public interest. Smart grids are also the key to cleaning up and modernizing the electric system. Read More

• A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

  The Climate Post: Uptick in denialism halts glacier melt, lowers sea levels

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 2:15 PM By Eric Roston

  This week: The absence of an actual bill is one impediment to the Senate taking up climate legislation; the CLEAR Act isn't dead quite yet; and conventional journalists need to add more explanation to their climate stories. Read More

• autoneurotic

  Streetfilms: Fixing the car-centric city [video]

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 4:09 PM

  Streetfilms examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today. New York City's Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White shows how planning for cars drastically altered Park Avenue. Watch this! Read More

• putting in sky lights

  Know your solar 4

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 1:44 PM By Lester Brown

  Concerns about global warming and oil insecurity have prompted calls for a new energy economy, one that replaces fossil fuels with renewables. The sun is an enormous reservoir of energy; in fact, the sunlight reaching Earth in just one hour is enough to power the global economy for a whole year. Here are data highlights on solar photovoltaics, concentrated solar thermal power, and solar water and space heating. Read More

• Green hard hat or green lab beaker?

  Retooling green jobs for the next generation 1

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 12:33 PM By Jesse Jenkins

  When you think "green jobs," do you conjure images of green hard hats, caulk guns, and tool belts? Well it might be time to start thinking about "green" lab beakers, "green" drafting tables and "green" brief cases as well, because the careers needed to secure competitive clean energy industries will also run the gamut from cutting-edge researchers and high-tech engineers to innovative designers and fearless entrepreneurs. Read More

• Pimp my double wide

  McMansion modular 1

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 12:12 PM By Lisa Selin Davis

  In less than a day-and-a-half, a six-bedroom, six-plus bath, 7,200-square-foot home can appear on a slab of land. Modular equals green? We don't think so. Read More

• hugo and what army?

  How many Venezuelan soldiers does it take to change a lightbulb? 2

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 11:24 AM By Ashley Braun

  When the president of Venezuela wants to save energy, he doesn't mess around. It's time to send in the troops! Read More

• Senators negotiate green economy bill with polluters who deny threat of global warming 1

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 11:17 AM By Brad Johnson

• How the cap-and-trade controversy could lead to good clean energy policy 13

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 11:16 AM By David Roberts

• Colbert grows a ‘crisis herb garden’ 1

  Posted 11 Mar 2010 7:48 AM By Tom Laskawy

• Jonathan Safran Foer talks with Ellen about the success of ‘Eating Animals’ 1

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 3:36 PM

• How to provide relief to rural Americans, create jobs, and lower emissions ... all at once! 6

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 3:06 PM By David Roberts

• Banana briefs are growing on us

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 2:49 PM By Ashley Braun

• Breakthrough polymers promise versatile, immortal plastics—a good thing 5

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 1:17 PM By Todd Woody

• Big Oil uses fake ‘Americans’ to attack fake ‘energy taxes’ 4

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 12:12 PM By Brad Johnson

• A recipe for delish disaster: global warming hot apple pie

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 12:02 PM By Ashley Braun

• The do-nothing energy tax: $3 gasoline dead ahead 2

  Posted 10 Mar 2010 11:21 AM By Daniel J. Weiss

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