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By the Numbers – Data Highlights from Full Planet, Empty Plates

More than 150 data sets accompany Lester R. Brown’s latest book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food...

Earth Policy Institute Uncategorized October 17, 2012

One more way your plane flights are killing everybody

Remember when cars used to give off disgusting clouds of lead-laden smoke? Planes still do that. Some of them do,...

Sarah Laskow Culture September 4, 2012

How the U.S. paved the way for Big Oil’s rise — and possible fall — in Iraq

American strategy throughout the Iraq war was aimed at making it easier for Big Oil to do business there. But with U.S. influence waning, there's another possibility for Iraq.

Greg Muttitt Climate & Energy August 23, 2012

New Wind Farm is Nation’s Largest; Means More Clean Energy, Jobs

This past weekend marked the opening of the largest wind farm in the U.S. — a site that will power...

Mary Anne Hitt Uncategorized September 24, 2012

Will Obama’s second term bring food system wins — or more of the same?

Obama didn't impress food system reformers in his first four years. Will this term be any different?

Tom Laskawy Food November 13, 2012

Middle schoolers convince L.A. school district to ban styrofoam

Anyone who thinks that kids don’t care about anything but eating uncooked ramen and playing video games clearly underestimated the...

Sarah Miller Uncategorized September 7, 2012

GMOs, pesticides, and the new scientific deadlock

A new study says GMO crops have led farmers to use 400 million more pounds of pesticide than they would have otherwise. Here's how to interpret the science -- and the critique.

Tom Laskawy Food October 5, 2012

RIP, Larry Gibson: Longtime mountaintop-removal activist dies on mountain he loved

The West Virginia native died Sunday, after decades spent fighting the good fight.

Philip Bump Culture September 10, 2012

How certain can we be about climate change?

Climate hawks stress that climate science is "settled," but that's misleading. There are still lots of uncertainties around climate, scientific and otherwise, and we have to learn to live with them.

David Roberts Climate & Energy September 26, 2012

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