The past couple of weeks have brought troubling climate news. An article published in the journal Nature said that climate change is reaching a tipping point, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. If that point is reached, it’ll mean rapid and irreversible damage to the global environment. The report joins scores of others highlighting the effect […]
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CSAs: Choosing the food less traveled
While popular culture isn’t exactly offering up healthy-life-choice alternatives, the past decade or so has seen increased public discussion surrounding our impending dietary doom. Films like Robert Kenner’s "Food, Inc." and literature by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver warn us that, it may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but the end of […]
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ENVIRONMENT: Under the influence
Thanks to an Associated Press report, the average American is waking up to the fact that we’re unwittingly contaminating our water supplies – whether they’re lakes, streams, or groundwater. In one illuminating – and icky – scenario, the AP reports that the drugs we consume – in pills, in meat from animals that are fed […]
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The silent invasion
Six-hundred miles west of Rochester, in suburban Chicago, is a structure that just might save Lake Ontario. Connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal links up two of the continent’s largest water systems: the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes watersheds. At the bottom of that canal lies a […]
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The XX Files
I’m way above the fray up here in this SUV. I’m head and shoulders above you and your car and I like the view. You can’t mess with me up here. You can’t get at my children. What, kids? You felt a bump? That was probably some little car down there, or maybe a pedestrian. […]
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Farm bill: mostly fertilizer
With the recent passage of the Farm Bill — a monster package of federal subsidies covering the next six to 10 years — Congress has shoveled billions upon billions of dollars, largely where they aren’t needed. The conservative American Farm Bureau Federation is pleased, however. “Prompt implementation of the Farm Bill is imperative,” says […]
