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Welcome to the food deserts of rural America
How is it possible that people in farm country have a hard time finding food? In short, food deserts are complicated.
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Friday music blogging: best music of 2010
Ever since 2001, I've engaged in the annual ritual of assembling a two-CD mix of the last year's best new music. (Kids, let me translate: two 80-minute playlists, both of which fit exactly on the kind of "compact disc" your parents used to listen to.) This year's is rather late, but it's finally done.
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How much better is Canada?
Site ifitweremyhome.com fuels the which-country-is-better debate by comparing stats like electricity use and oil consumption. Warning: It's addictive.
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Live chat with author Mark Hertsgaard on climate change and ‘Generation Hot’
Join us Jan. 25 at 3 p.m. Eastern for a chat with renowned journalist Mark Hertsgaard about his book, "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth."
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Meet the Climate Fockers
Here’a repost from my Climateprogress.org blog today: A business colleague and friend recently had a nice conversation with his brother, a doctor visiting from the South. His brother doesn’t think climate change is a problem. It went something like this: Brother: “I’ve been reading some interesting articles about climate change that don’t….” Colleague: “Shut […]
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Top USDA bee researcher also found Bayer pesticide harmful to honeybees
Remember the case of the leaked document showing that the EPA's own scientists are concerned about a pesticide it approved that might harm fragile honeybee populations? Well, it turns out that USDA researchers also have good evidence that these nicotine-derived chemicals could be playing a part in Colony Collapse Disorder. So why on earth are they still in use on millions of acres of American farmland?
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Monsanto's latest farmwashing ad campaign debuts
We have two agricultural systems in this country, both claiming to be good for farmers and both claiming to be sustainable, says Marion Nestle. But only one has millions of dollars' worth of ads selling its version of reality.
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Obama’s executive order could actually be a win for the environment
Progressives have weighed in on Barack Obama's regulation executive order with criticism. A close look reveals much of the complaints are unwarranted.
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Parsing the new 'humane' food labels
What do the new "humane" labels really mean for things like pork and eggs? Depends on who's backing them.
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Is China's quasi-dictatorship better prepared for the 21st century than our mess of a democracy?
China is a nation ruled by engineers with a steely-eyed determination to vanquish us in the race for clean energy. How can a democracy beholden to corporate interests and besieged by politicians in deep denial about the shape of the 21st century possibly keep up?
