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You have no idea what that fish you’re eating is, so don’t pretend
If asked what you're eating, the safest response is, "fish."
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Local food a growing trend for land trusts
When a land trust in Grayslake, Illinois, made a strategic decision in 2005 to include farmland in its list of property types to preserve, it joined scores of traditional ‘woods and waters’ trusts across the U.S. which are increasingly preserving agricultural lands and building local food systems. While it made sense strategically, since much of […]
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Don’t believe in climate change? Talk to a clam digger
As the ocean absorbs carbon, it's becoming too acidic to grow oysters, spurring those in the shellfish industry to lead the charge for awareness.
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We Need Climate CHANGE
“The government can’t change the weather,” said Florida Senator Marco Rubio last week, describing his opposition to President Obama’s State of the Union call-to-action on climate change policy. Given the staggering costs of droughts, heat waves, and super storms, it would seem our political leaders would come quickly to some consensus on these seemingly urgent […]
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How a City Can Get More Clean, Local Energy
Like many cities attempting to solve climate change at a local level, Minneapolis is finding the prospect more challenging that it may have imagined. The lion’s share of emissions (two-thirds in the case of Minneapolis) come from electricity and gas sold by two monopoly, corporate utilities. Minnesota’s state-level policy is helping: a renewable energy standard […]
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The virtues of being unreasonable on Keystone
NYT blogger Andy Revkin is unhappy that Keystone activists are angry at him. But there's only so long you can float above the real climate fights, supporting action in the abstract but never in the particular.
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Wind Surpasses Nuclear in China
By J. Matthew Roney Wind has overtaken nuclear as an electricity source in China. In 2012, wind farms generated 2 percent more electricity than nuclear power plants did, a gap that will likely widen dramatically over the next few years as wind surges ahead. Since 2007, nuclear power generation has risen by 10 percent annually, […]
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New whale species discovered under highway
Four newly uncoverd skulls belong to "four newly identified species of toothed baleen whale -- a type of whale that scientists thought had gone extinct 5 million years earlier."
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Our Lunch Counter Moment
“Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move; The thunder is the thunder of the floes, The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring. Thank God our time is now when wrong Comes up to face us everywhere, Never to leave us […]
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Rampaging bunnies are attacking cars in Denver
Airport employees think that they're seeking refuge under cars because it's warm there. But we know the truth: The bunnies are a secret guerilla force on the rampage, out to undermine the prevalence of cars in this country.
