New York Times
-
Land use is not a barrier for distributed renewable energy
A column in The New York Times last Tuesday suggested that land use is the greatest environmental problem facing new renewable energy.
-
On Rand Paul, toilets, and getting pottymouthed in the New York Times
Coming soon to a senator’s house near you?When The New York Times wants really thoughtful, meaty commentary on issues like climate legislation, green technology, or local food systems, it turns to Grist writers David Roberts and Tom Philpott. When it wants toilet talk, it turns to … me. At least, that’s what happened this past […]
-
“Why Nukes are [not] the Most Urgent Environmental Threat”
Environmentalists: Wake up! There is a greater and more urgent threat to the climate than even global warming: the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Uhh, no. As someone who spent a lot of time working on issues related to the threat posed by nuclear weapons — I was actually a Congressional science fellow two decades […]
-
Pittsburgh’s drinking water is radioactive, thanks to fracking. Only question is, how much?
The drinking water of tens of millions of Pennsylvanians is threatened by natural-gas fracking — including the 2.3 million who live in Pittsburgh.Photo: Via Tsuji Residents of Pittsburgh — as well as potentially tens of millions of other everyday citizens in the Northeast corridor who rely on their taps to deliver safe water — are […]
-
NY Times on “The dirty energy party”
The New York Times has a good editorial today on the “The dirty energy party” aka the GOP. It only makes one historical error: President Obama has decided that the failure of last year’s comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and […]
-
NY Times on “The dirty energy party”
The New York Times has a good editorial today on the “The dirty energy party” aka the GOP. It only makes one historical error: President Obama has decided that the failure of last year’s comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and […]
-
Sorry, McWilliams, the New York Times got the USDA cheese story right
The counterattacks on Michael Moss's exposé of the USDA's hypocritical efforts to get Americans to consume more high-fat dairy are wrongheaded. Milk and pork "checkoffs" do indeed represent the federal government at work.
-
Ask Umbra on food dehydrators, cage-free and free-range poultry, and e-readers
Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, I am enthusiastic about growing my own food in my small garden and I am looking for ways to preserve my produce for use out of season. I cook and freeze some things and have done some canning, but this year I thought I would make things […]
-
Still another critic of real food – this time in the NYT
In Sunday’s New York Times, Damon Darlin has now weighed into a debate which I am suddenly making a career of noticing, that of publicly lambasting locavores. Normally a tech writer (and perhaps better suited to it), Darlin has wheeled out some of the same tired points that others have recently, making them officially clichéd. […]