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Martha Payne had some sad-ass lunches at her school in Scotland — unsatisfying food that sometimes had more hair than vegetables. So the 9-year-old decided to start a blog with photos and vital statistics about her meals. Almost immediately, the blog got international attention, inclu...
Yesterday, I wrote about the issue of public land in the Powder River Basin being leased to coal companies for cheap, so they can strip-mine it and sell the coal abroad at an enormous profit. Also yesterday, the feds held a “competitive lease sale” for the South Porcupine Tract, which...
A version of this post was originally published by the Center for American Progress . Given today’s economic problems, you’d think the public would be in a surly mood about environmental protection, seeing it as a secondary and perhaps conflicting priority to jobs and economic growth....
Apple is cleaning up its energy act. The computer company says that by early next year, the energy used to power its worldwide data centers will all come from renewable sources, such as solar, wind power, or hydroelectric dams. It announced the news Thursday in a post on its website. ...
Why do those at the Breakthrough Institute insist that everyone else besides them who cares about the environment is wrong, wrong, wrong? Their latest , called “The Creative Destruction of Climate Economics,” is a swipe at those misguided souls who think putting a price on carbon emis...
Love him or hate him, the man knows how to mobilize a following. (Photo by Scandic Hotels.) However you might feel about Jamie Oliver — most seem to love him or hate him — you can’t deny that the man has a following, and he knows how to mobilize it. Since he declared this Saturday, Ma...
Photo by Musebrarian on Flickr. We’ve known for a while that climate change will threaten supplies of our favorite foods, like wine and bourbon . (Oh, and bacon , coffee , chocolate , oysters , and pecan pie .) But the optimists among us took this news with good humor. “Oh sure, our f...
Apple is cleaning up its energy act. The computer company says that by early next year, the energy used to power its worldwide data centers will all come from renewable sources, such as solar, wind power, or hydroelectric dams. It announced the news Thursday in a post on its website. ...
