by DARBY MINOW SMITH | grist | January 31, 2010 Growing up in small-town Montana, two things just made no sense: vegetarians and sushi. Why eat tofu, or raw fish, when you could just as easily have a big juicy steak? Coming from generations of cattle rancher stock, I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s ringing defense [...]
Los Angeles architect Fritz Haeg looks to change the world by changing our notions about landscaping by John Bentley Mays | The Globe And Mail | January 22, 2010 For millions of Americans and Canadians, the front lawn is a sacred place. It symbolizes home ownership quite as forcefully as the house itself does. Kept vividly [...]
We’re less mobile and more place-bound, and it’s not just the recession that’s slowing restless America’s nomadic habits. This is good news for Seattle, the environment, and mossbacks. by Knute Berger | Crosscut | January 20, 2010 Developers love predicting that growth isunstoppable and inevitable, but the Great Recession is showing how untrue this really is. [...]
But DSCOVR remains grounded. That fact is key to interpreting the so-called ‘climategate’ emails. by Mitchell Anderson | TheTyee.ca | January 20, 2010 The media missed the real story about the so-called “climategate” scandal. After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the climate conference in Copenhagen, many [...]
From EduPunks to food jewelers, people are using new tools to take learning, art, entertainment, technology, politics, and even science into their own hands. Behold the growing Maker Movement. By Pia Bahile, Curtis File and Kevin Young | TheTyee.ca | Today (as good as any day) [Editor's note: The Tyee is proud to co-publish with Rabble.ca a multi-part, multi-media [...]
by Jerry Large | Seattle Times | January 13, 2010 It is possible to improve the lives of the poor, the middle class and the well off, by addressing one big problem. It turns out that reducing economic inequality can reduce a whole range of social problems, from teenage pregnancy and youth violence, to heart [...]
Neglect of the natural services provided by biodiversity is an economic catastrophe greater than the global economic crisis by Robert Bloomfield | guardian.co.uk | Monday 11 January 2010 07.00 GMT Starting Monday, celebrations and events across the world will highlight the beginning of the UN’s Year of International Biodiversity and the loss of our richly varied [...]
Rescued animal returns the favor by warning family when an electric blanket catches fire. by Stephanie Rogers | Mother Nature Network | January 4, 2009 When Yu Feng of Liaoning Province in China found a dying black snake in the grass outside his home, he made an unusual decision that would change his life. Yu [...]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | The New York Times | November 13, 2009 PLAYA GRANDE, Costa Rica — This resort town was long known forLeatherback Sea Turtle National Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. So Kaja Michelson, a Swedish tourist, arrived with high expectations. “Of course we’re hoping to see turtles — [...]
by TOVIA SMITH | NPR | December 22, 2009 It’s been taught to generations that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” But how blessed is it when you give in order to receive? This time of year, charity is everywhere: Starbucks is helping to fight AIDS in Africa. Macy’s is giving to [...]