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Cook's night in

Thoughts inspired by Pollan’s provocative piece on cooking 12
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
When I think hard about what it would take to create a just and sustainable food system, two big obstacles spring immediately to mind: 1) we need more people growing food; and 2) we need more people cooking it, too. In his latest blockbuster in NYT Magazine, Michael Pollan takes on the second one. I can sum his 9,000-word jeremiad in one...
Did Time’s Bryan Walsh cut-and-paste a faulty critique of Obama’s clean energy efforts? 0
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago
The world according to me

Ethical questions remain on the cloning of Steve Milloy 0
Posted 4 months ago
Steve Milloy appears to have been cloned at least twice. Osha Gray Davidson debates the ethical implications.
Choice nuggets

From “sexy meat” to fabulous ice cream, tasty morsels from around the web 2
Posted 4 months ago
Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web.
Who liberates the liberators?

Terrorism laws are wrongly being used to round up eco-activists, says author Dean Kuipers 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
“Rod Coronado is not a terrorist,” says Dean Kuipers, author of Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness. In an interview, Kuipers explains how terrorism laws are being used against environmentalists and animal-rights activists.
cream pies, always funny

Steven Chu and cap-and-snooze on the Daily Show 4
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart delivered a twofer last night with a bit of cap-and-trade commentary followed by an interview with Dr. Nobel McGenius, Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Beetle Blunder

If New York Times can’t tell the global warming story (twice!), how will the public hear it? 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Miso salmon? Me not-so hungry

Why the Cheesecake Factory really is gross 9
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Washington Post food-politics columnist Ezra Klein recently posed the philosophical question, "Is the Cheesecake Factory Gross?" Tom Philpott ponders.
Meth of the matter

New book looks at economic devastation in an Iowa meat-packing town 1
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
It's become axiomatic that to peer deep into our reliance on fossil energy is to gaze upon human wreckage: bombed-out Baghdad slums, desolated Nigerian townships, or Appalachian communities eviscerated by the removal of mountaintops. The same is true of the food system, as the new book Methland shows.
Jolly green giant

Must-read: urban farmer Will Allen in the NYT Magazine 2
Posted 5 months ago
Anyone who wants to understand the paradoxes and promise of urban agriculture must read the luminous profile of Growing Power's Will Allen by Elizabeth Royte, online now and forthcoming in Sunday's New York Times Magazine.
Edible media

The WaPo serves up a food-politics column 2
Posted 5 months ago
The Washington Post recently rolled out a new food-politics column. Tom Philpott rolls out the welcome mat.
Still spinning

EPA ‘suppression’ story grows, despite shoddy science in report 6
Posted 5 months ago
The peculiar story of a "suppressed" report at the Environmental Protection Agency continues to grow, despite the fact that the agency appears to have done nothing worse than holding its employees to professional standards.
Sheesh: "It did not even represent the reporter's attempt" to inaccurately portray his views

MacCracken: “The New York Times quote did not represent my views” 1
Posted 5 months ago
When we last left the New York Times, they were burying the exclusive they got on climate science impacts report that NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco called a "game changer".
A look inside the right-wing message machine

Scant evidence for charge that EPA ‘suppressed’ dissent [Updated] 8
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute has issued a release under the headline "BREAKING: EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study." Wow! A huge story, right? Not so fast.
Kristof pissed off at Big Food

In first week of wide release, ‘Food Inc.’ gets boost from NYT pundit 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Amid Food Inc.'s first weekend in nationwide release, the hard-hitting food-system exposé got a boost from NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof. (I'll be reviewing the film later this week.) Declared the pundit in his widely read Sunday column:...
Your train is running late

Phoenix’s light rail project sparks journalism start-up 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Last year, Adam Klawonn started sketching out the plan that, this week, landed him a $95,000 Knight News Challenge grant: a news service devoted entirely to Phoenix's six-month-old light rail system. Its working title is Daily Phoenix.
Not the good kind that gives you super powers

The Radioactivity of the Breakthrough Institute: lies, misstatements, and critically flawed analyses 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
GMO job

In which I go toe to toe with H. Clinton’s science czar over GMOs 12
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Who could resist going toe to toe with Hillary Rodham Clinton's science czar on the topic of GMOs? Not I.
Change we need to hear about

Obama’s voice absent from release of big climate report 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
On a day when the executive branch released a major report on the effects of climate change already underway in the United States, where was President Obama?
(FALLING OFF THE) CLIFF NOTES

UPDATED: A roundup of news coverage on the climate change impacts report 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Check back here for updated coverage of the U.S. climate change impacts report released today.