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Why food prices scaled the peaks — and why it matters
You may not have felt a thing, but when food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, they sent experts into a tizzy of debate over why it happened and what we can learn.
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When adding bike lanes actually reduces traffic delays
In New York, smart street design helped the city have its safety and its speed, too.
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China just got serious about global warming. Now we’re really out of excuses.
The world's biggest polluter will set up a carbon market as early as 2016. Here's why that matters.
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The insect-eating revolution will not be bro-ified
A study finds marginally more enthusiasm for eating bugs among the testosterone set. But, truly, entomophagy does not bow to gender.
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Why Maryland is doing local food right
How Baltimore's Woodberry Kitchen is building a better food system.
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“Night Moves” is why people hate environmentalists
This indie thriller highlights some of the most detestable clichés of the save-the-trees mentality. Our roundtable of writers weigh in.
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Google trend watch: The indoors are the new outdoors
Google brings backpacking indoors with a very sexy and subtle new virtual mapping device!
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These ice cream makers aren’t down with vanilla’s brand new invention
Companies like Häagen-Dazs and Straus Family Creamery won't be using vanilla made via synthetic biology.
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The personal (technology) is political, part two
Web technologies are embedded in socioeconomic structures that are designed to exploit workers and consumers to the benefit of capital.
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Why Maine is doing lobster right
How Muscongus Bay Lobster Company is building a better food system.
