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• a picture's worth a thousand birds

  What if there had never been a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? [Gallery]

  Posted 2 Dec 2010 2:41 PM By Christopher Mims

  In pictures, a dystopian view of the world we would have inherited had not President Richard M. Nixon signed the Environmental Protection Agency into law forty years ago today. Read More

• Schooled ya

  Congress passes the school lunch bill, but there’s less to it than meets the eye 3

  Posted 2 Dec 2010 1:56 PM By Ed Bruske

  The House finally joined the Senate in passing child nutrition legislation. Sustainable-food advocates are cheering, but the new law won't transform the dismal nature of school lunches. Read More

• Chewing the Scenery

  Jon Stewart smacks Glenn Beck over food safety bill 1

  Posted 2 Dec 2010 1:33 PM By Bonnie Azab Powell

  The Daily Show comedian praises the Senate for passing (well, almost) the food safety bill, and mocks Fox for FDA fear-mongering. I wonder, maybe Glenn Beck doesn't want the FDA poking around in his business? Read More

• Will we ever be safe?

  Food safety bill enters horror-movie phase, thanks to Senate snafu 3

  Posted 2 Dec 2010 1:04 PM By Tom Philpott

  Just when you thought it was safe to quit thinking about the Food Safety Modernization Act, it's baaaaaack. In the Senate, site of its triumph last week. And this time, it might not make it out alive. Read More

• Lies, Damned Lies and Galactus

  The Fantastic 4 of climate change nonsense

  Posted 2 Dec 2010 11:57 AM By Christopher Mims

  Experts at the World Bank think there are four things holding back action on climate change -- too bad they're wrong about almost all of them. Read More

• Bay of chickens

  Big Poultry ramps up its assault on the Chesapeake

  Posted 2 Dec 2010 10:21 AM By Tom Philpott

  You know how gigantic factory farms raise tens of millions of chickens a year on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, befowling what was once a dramatically productive wild ecosystem? Well, according to Tyson and Perdue execs, it's high time to set up hundreds more poultry factories there. Read More

• Beet them, join them

  At Youth Farm, kids learn where food comes from and how to enjoy it [VIDEO]

  Posted 2 Dec 2010 8:54 AM By Daniel Klein

  In honor of Congress finally voting on the long-awaited, yet disappointing Childhood Nutrition Reauthorization act, here's a look at a much more effective way to get kids to eat kale and other vegetables. Read More

• Northern exposure

  Seattle and Oslo companies form venture to build solar farms 4

  Posted 2 Dec 2010 5:56 AM By Todd Woody

  When you think of solar powerhouses, Seattle and Oslo do not exactly come to mind, what with their often-gray skies and location in the northern latitudes. But both have been a hotbed of green tech innovation. Now, two solar companies from those cities have created a joint venture. Read More

• Notable quotable

  Coal is the savior of the human race 8

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 8:59 PM By Tom Philpott

  How wonderful is coal? Turns out, it's going to end global poverty! Read More

• COP outs

  Cancun climate talks hit bump thanks to Japan and Brazil 1

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 5:50 PM By Agence France-Presse

  World climate talks struck a sour note on their third day Wednesday as Japan retreated from the landmark Kyoto Protocol and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva predicted the 12-day meeting "won't result in anything." Read More

• The only change you can count on

  Cancun: politics vs. science 4

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 5:32 PM By Kate Sheppard

  All the discussions about numbers avoid the reality that we're already on the path to dangerous warming, and the actions countries have put forward so far aren't nearly strong enough to avert dangerous warming. Read More

• Fire drills

  Obama extends drilling ban in wake of BP spill

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 4:18 PM By Agence France-Presse

  President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to expand oil exploration off U.S. coasts and, in the wake of the BP spill, will extend a deepwater drilling ban in certain areas through 2017, the administration said on Wednesday. Read More

• Boulder rallies around improving its schools’ food 1

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 3:44 PM By Ed Bruske

• Stunning new tool maps out factory farms near you 9

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 11:13 AM By Tom Philpott

• A new study of data from Lyon’s bike-share system could help planners 1

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 10:24 AM By Sarah Goodyear

• Richard Goldman, founder of the Goldman Prize, dies at age 90

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 10:00 AM By Glenn Hurowitz

• Future at risk on a hotter planet 3

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 9:31 AM By Lester Brown

• Today’s DIY women: Post-‘domestic’? 45

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 9:02 AM By Steph Larsen

• Why you love the places you live, in your own words 2

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 8:56 AM By Sarah Goodyear

• USDA chief visits with Stephen Colbert, brings cheese

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 8:35 AM By Tom Laskawy

• Leaked cables reveal Saudi minister of petroleum helped craft toothless Copenhagen climate accord 13

  Posted 1 Dec 2010 7:17 AM By Christopher Mims

• Ten affordable neighborhoods-in-progress will design to LEED-ND standards under grant program 3

  Posted 30 Nov 2010 4:58 PM By Kaid Benfield

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