Who better to bring you this week’s green news than rockstar, Portlandia star, and all-around amazing Carrie Brownstein?

Pennsylvania is gonna start fracking its forests:

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It’s now legal to sell homemade food in California:

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Please don’t destroy Bristol Bay with a gold and copper mine, hundreds of scientists urge the EPA:

Climate change could, but probably won’t, cause zombie smallpox:

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A fish actually got OFF the endangered species list for the first time:

The Great Lakes might be drying up:

Tom Colicchio of Top Chef wants to make our food system safer and more sustainable:

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Rob Ford got busted for jaywalking, of all things: