Patrick Baron looks under the hood of the next US Farm Bill. What’s inside? More hidden subsidies for industrial farm animal production in the guise of crop subsidies. How the next Farm Bill will undermine sustainable agriculture.
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Op-ed: Local Climate Solutions as Christian Calling
think you have to love something before you’ll fight for it. At least that’s been my experience growing up in Minnesota. My friends and I built snow castles in the winter, chased rabbits in the spring and marveled at the sun-kissed summer leaves, years before we learned the biochemistry of photosynthesis. I yearned for the lakes, woods and prairies before […]
Sage Briefs: Energy Mapping the Masses
An ambitious project to map the energy consumption of every building in New York City shows off the limitless potential of energy mapping for future planning and development.
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Deadly Dish – How Our Food System Is Creating The Next Superbug
How the widespread use of antibiotics in our food production system is creating, and spreading, a new breed of serious diseases.
Keystone XL: Deciding the National Interest
President Obama has twice rejected construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it not in the national interest. If you’re wondering from where he derives this authority, here’s a hint: that’s a trick question.
Lessons from Air Pollution Past
Worried about climate change? Fret not, we have already successfully solved some pretty incredible air pollution problems. Atmospheric chemist Gabriel Isaacman takes a look backward at where we’ve come from and suggests that, yes, we may still have a bright future ahead.
We want your photos of the WEST!
The West: land of frontier aspirations, gold-pan booms and dot-com busts. Things are bigger out West, we’re told, and maybe they’re better too.
We’re creating a new series of photo essays about issues affecting the North American West. If you’ve got a photo to share or a tale to tell – we want to see it and we’d love to hear it.
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From Scrap Heap to Wind Turbine
In 2009, Harrison Leaf was one of many university graduates facing a tough job market. Instead of working as a bartender, he decided to found a renewable energy company in Kenya.
International Society of Tropical Foresters 2012 Photo Contest
The winning photographs from this year’s International Society of Tropical Foresters Conference Photo Contest are as diverse as the tropical regions in which they were captured. These winning photos represent images from more than a dozen tropical countries and depict forests in transition, solitary travelers and unique animals, indigenous communities and sweeping, epic landscapes. Enjoy!
The Limits of Civil Disobedience: An Interview with Director Marshall Curry
Documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry has said that he likes to “present people’s best arguments and let those smack into each other.” His third and most recent project does this exceedingly well – many good arguments, much tough smacking.
Fish Tales: An Interview with Author Paul Greenberg
The author of the acclaimed book, “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food,” on fishing, writing, and healing the world’s oceans.