Cold Midwest Spring is a Harbinger of Hunger Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-05-28 12:17:07 Here in the upper Midwest temperatures have remained low, and nighttime temperatures are still falling into the frost range, a weather pattern that seems ominously persistent as spring approaches with slowly greening trees, and the absence of sunshine and fallow cornfields.
Conde Nast Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is Written By: Jack Hudson 2008-04-01 11:51:27 A policy shift at Conde Nast is the second of my three aspirational and fictional ideas that are (relatively) cheap, that would make concrete environmental gains, that could be accomplished almost instantaneously by motivated people in positions of power (by phone calls, in two cases), and that would immediately set an agenda for the next election.
Doing the Springsteen to Extinction Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-06-14 11:20:22
Bruce said it best when he wrote the song, "One Step Up," bewailing the fact that we humans don’t seem to be able to learn even from the hard lessons, creating a history that is almost consistently one step up and two steps back.
Earth Day Resolutions (and Transgressions) Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2007-04-22 22:11:07 In honor of Earth Day, here is a list of 50 things we can do to stop global warming. Feel free to brag about all the ways in which you save the world from imminent destruction, as well as the ways in which you are an environmentally irresponsible monster (I'll start):
In honor of Earth Day, here is a list of 50 things we can do to stop global warming. Feel free to brag about all the ways in which you save the world from imminent destruction, as well as the ways in which you are an environmentally irresponsible monster (I'll start):