What is climate change doing to our mental health?
Jul 28, 2014, 6:05 am By Joanne Silberner
About a year ago, I started wondering about the impact of climate change on mental health. After…Hungry hungry humans: The science (and art) of feeding ourselves
Jul 28, 2014, 5:56 am By Nathanael Johnson
The issue keeps coming up when I write about genetic engineering, or local food systems, or…These young people are pioneering Appalachia’s post-coal economy
Jul 27, 2014, 8:03 am By Joe Solomon
In the Hunger Games novels, heroine Katniss Everdeen comes from a coal mining region known as…Appalachia tries to make a life after coal
Jul 26, 2014, 8:05 am By Laura Flanders
Benham, Ky., in the heart of Harlan County, is a quiet place with a proud sign that has been amended…Gimme 8 percent of your lunch! You’re not going to eat it anyway
Jul 25, 2014, 8:05 pm By Eve Andrews
When presented with a plate of delicious food, do you eat all of it? Every last bit? Is the plate…You’d scream, too, if you were this close to a collapsing iceberg
Jul 25, 2014, 6:23 pm By Alex Park
Climate change is melting ice at both ends of the planet – just ask the researchers who…Dead elephants, plagues, and rats: Why the Sixth Extinction is bad for you and everyone you know
Jul 25, 2014, 6:02 pm By Samantha Larson
Hey, remember the dinosaurs? Yeah, neither. All it took was one massive asteroid, and all the dinos…Out-of-touch dads still want gas-guzzling SUVs, apparently
Jul 25, 2014, 5:56 pm By Ted Alvarez
Watching the cultural backlash against all the mongo SUVs that ran us off roads, CO2′d our…Be a patriot, eat less beef
Jul 25, 2014, 2:43 pm By Alex Park
As Josh Harkinson noted this week, cows are the United States’ single biggest source of…Letter from Detroit: And now for a completely different kind of Canadian pipeline
Jul 25, 2014, 1:12 pm By Heather Smith
I was loading boxes of water onto a truck in Detroit yesterday when I heard the news: A convoy from…Want to support clean energy? Fight for voting rights
Jul 25, 2014, 12:48 pm By Brentin Mock
As Jelani Cobb wrote recently in The New Yorker: “The past year has offered an odd object lesson…Amory Lovins’ high-tech home skimps on energy but not on comfort
Jul 25, 2014, 7:08 am By Ben Adler
© Judy Hill Lovins For most of its history, environmentalism has been associated with a…On climate change, Republicans are even more backward than oil companies
Jul 25, 2014, 7:02 am By Ben Adler
Ask your average liberal or environmentalist to name the primary impediment to action on climate…Relax, everyone: We’re not about to run out of kale
Jul 24, 2014, 8:45 pm By Darby Minow Smith
Lay off the kale, you arrogant yuppies.* The leafy green’s popularity has skyrocketed in the last…Frackers learn one does not simply walk into Pittsburgh and mess with its CSAs
Jul 24, 2014, 7:35 pm By Eve Andrews
The Pennsylvania Constitution stipulates that its citizens have a right to “clean air, pure water,…Climate change VR games make you a better person by making you kill trees and coral
Jul 24, 2014, 7:09 pm By Samantha Larson
Despite our best efforts to convince people of the dangers of climate change, fully half of…Northwest wildfires: We broke the forests, now we need to fix them
Jul 24, 2014, 4:29 pm By Greg Hanscom
The Northwest is ablaze. Both Washington and Oregon are in official states of emergency as dozens of…Sit down, relax, and charge your phone at this cool new solar-powered smartbench
Jul 24, 2014, 4:13 pm By Jim Meyer
Welcome, friends, to tomorrow. Thanks to the Soofa electricity-generating park bench, the tyranny of…North Dakota’s ag commissioner race oughta be on Broadway
Jul 24, 2014, 1:54 pm By Heather Smith
In the struggle over North America’s energy boom, some tales are more suitable for Broadway…Drilling in Pennsylvania has damaged the water supply 209 times in last seven years
Jul 24, 2014, 12:52 pm By Heather Smith
Whether or not you think that’s alright depends on your perspective. According to Patrick…
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