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Just Food
When my daughter recently returned from a class trip to a farmers' market, she handed me a vocabulary list: "Food miles," one entry read. "The distance a food must travel from farm to plate. The farther the distance, the more impact on our environment (transportation pollution) and the more need to preserve and package the food."
Comments (0) | August 26, 2009
Spotlight: American Power
In 2003 the photographer Mitch Epstein embarked on what he calls “a strange kind of tourism: energy tourism.” His aim was to document, with his large-format camera, the countless sites of energy production in the United States and the ways in which energy is consumed, as well as the costs of those endeavors to society and the natural world.
Comments (0) | August 26, 2009
The Barbaric Heart
Look deep into what Curtis White calls "the Barbaric Heart" and you’ll find yourself traveling, like some blood clot in a House episode, down the aisles of Wal-Mart and Costco, into the boardrooms of multinational corporations, along the streets of suburban sprawl, through alleyways of junkies and the homeless, to some dinner party where beautifully dressed people feel simultaneously empty and self-important.
Comments (0) | August 26, 2009
The Road Ahead
Four-dollar gas: dream or nightmare? Craig Canine reviews two new books on the future of the car.
Comments (0) | August 26, 2009
Ecological Intelligence
When deciding what to buy, it’s important to know the whole story. That’s the central message of Daniel Goleman’s Ecological Intelligence, which explores why the environmental and social impacts of consumer goods remain hidden and how “radical transparency,” a system the author proposes for revealing those costs to the public, will force producers to change how they make things.
Comments (2) | May 28, 2009
My Life as a Guinea Pig
Are we truly living better through chemistry, or only barely?
Comments (0) | May 28, 2009
Spotlight: Mannahatta
The Manhattan of today, a narrow island no more than 12 blocks wide, brims with 1.6 million people who journey in cars, buses, and trains through valleys of steel, glass, and concrete.
Comments (0) | May 28, 2009
Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time
Journalists Wanted: Must be willing to dispense with business attire, order drinks in multiple languages, and be open to the possibility of monkeys flinging excrement at your head
Comments (0) | May 28, 2009
Are We Going Nuclear?
How one mineral could determine our energy future and our national security
Comments (1) | February 27, 2009
Diagnosis: Mercury
Jennifer Weeks reviews Diagnosis: Mercury
Comments (0) | February 27, 2009