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The Meat-Guzzler

Mark Bittman, author of the NYTimes’ 10-year old Minimalist cooking column and a recently published vegetarian cookbook, though not himself a vegetarian, has written an excellent article detailing the costs to the environment of the modern, high-meat …

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Thinking Outside the Sphere

Greg Costikyan has a few proposals on global climate change:

Screw this penny-ante stuff. The likelihood of our being able to dramatically reduce carbon emissions in the short term is nonexistent, particularly given the Chinese.…

Obviously, he's …

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NYT on Organic Wal-Mart

The NYT has an excellent article on new organic trends at Wal-Mart and the economic impact. The entire article is worth reading, but here's my favorite nugget:

Wal-Mart will buy its organic food from whichever producers can produce it most cheaply …

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Kyoto experiments in Portland

In 1993, Portland became the first local government in the United States to adopt a strategy to deal with climate change. The latest data, released a few weeks ago, show the results: Greenhouse gas emissions last year in Multnomah County, which includes …

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