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Snotty locavores, agrarian urbanists, vegivores, and more

This week's tasty links from around the Web include pieces on the tendency to self-righteousness among hardcore locavores and the role of green space in high-density cities.

Garden designer Lynden Miller says a healthy city needs beautiful parks

"Every human being responds to a connection with nature," says Lynden Miller, who has designed many of New York's most successful public gardens. "People of all kinds love something beautiful and will talk to each other when they see it. They change the way they behave. It changes the way they feel about themselves and each other."

Renewable energy economies of scale are b.s.

This is part of a series of posts on distributed renewable energy that will be posted to Grist. It originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. I had a conversation with a wind developer yesterday and was talking about the difference between putting together large projects […]

What the FDA doesn’t want you to know about GE salmon

The Center for Food Safety has found evidence the FDA is excluding the government's own marine scientists from the GE salmon approval process.

Please welcome the adventurous locavore of 'The Perennial Plate' [VIDEO]

Long winters, ice fishing, slaughterhouses, urban gardens, and foraging for wild edibles all are ingredients for Daniel Klein's video feasts, which are set to a seriously awesome raucous soundtrack.

Some tips on city-fixing from people who should know, in New Orleans

Five years after Katrina, the people of New Orleans can be damn proud of the progress they have made. So listen up. They've learned some things about fixing their city that you could stand to know, even if you're not living in a disaster zone. Or if you're living in a place that just looks and feels like a disaster zone -- say, a crumbling Rust Belt city, or a foreclosure-gutted subdivision.

2010 still on track to be hottest on record

NASA reports that from January through October Earth continued to run a record temperature. And November is off to a hot start.

How the Wall Street Journal twisted the facts on transmission

The Wall Street Journal recently published an editorial, "The Great Transmission Heist," that took a swing at renewable energy. That's not surprising. What is surprising is that the piece wholly abandoned not only the facts, but fundamental market principles related to the energy sector.

Paint-and-seed grenade-launcher aims to bomb the blight out of America

Bomb the Blight founder Tommy Wilson is the latest to join the ranks of those pimping the pavement, and he's armed with seed bombs, paint, and an air cannon.

Advice for a carbon-powered Congress

At least three oracles offer a different vision for our carbon-powered Congress to follow that may result in more jobs and a faster economic recovery.