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Yes, cooking is wonderful, and so is communal eating with family and friends. But there's something powerful about standing up in a crowded cityscape and eating something simple and delicious that has been cooked before your eyes.
Future generations will judge us with unimaginable harshness for our failure to address the coming global catastrophe, and justifiably so.
The President of the United States has chosen to make the goal of 80% clean electricity generation by 2035 the first...
New York City has asked federal permission to ban food stamp purchases of sugar-sweetened drinks. While some fret, it's a move worth making.
Reports are in and it doesn't look good for the Obama administration's response to the oil spill.
Few sectors rival the global economic importance of sex, but so far sustainability professionals have left it completely untouched.
I'm somewhat dismayed to see the normally sharp Ezra Klein falling for the goofiest parts of the new Breakthrough/Brookings/AEI report. In fact he seems on the verge of drinking the Breakthrough kool-aid entirely. Consider this my attempt at an intervention. In particular, I want to take issue with the notion that investment is some sort of political skeleton key that can bypass the vicious partisan fighting that's characterized energy policy these last few decades.
For 50 years, nuclear advocates have been promising that future costs of reactors will come down. A new report this week from MIT calls on Congress to place a very big bet on that proposition. The report is only the latest in a series from MIT that grossly underestimates the likely cost of new nuclear reactors and overestimates the ability of the industry to operate on its own without heavy reliance on French-style government subsidies.
The roommates try to deal with an infestation of white flies in their new urban garden. Check out the web comic!
