HGTV’s list of ways your home can save the planet turns out to be a shopping list. Getsolar.com wonders why renewable energy and conservation aren’t even mentioned.

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Today, it may not directly affect the physical and socioeconomic environment of the U.S. as much as it does some developing countries, but deforestation anywhere deserves some attention, and not just from tree huggers. It accounts for about one fifth of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, after all, and a study from the WWF (World [...]

For those of you planning on traveling around Boston this Presidents’ Day weekend, here’s a heads-up: you may easily brush shoulders with some of the world’s most preeminent scientists and thinkers. They’ll be rushing about the Hynes Convention Center and its adjacent buildings, making their way to the various symposia, workshops, and lectures offered by [...]

We don’t usually think that hard about what that means. Calories, yes; occasionally we consider the carbon footprint of our meal in terms of how far it had to travel to us, if it came packaged in plastic or cardboard, etc. But a recent New York Times article brings to light the truly dark side [...]

Define “foodie”, if you can. It’s a nebulous word, one that seems to have come into being around the same time as cooking shows made the leap from daytime telly to primetime. Does it mean someone who loves cooking, or just eating? We already have perfectly good words for those, like chef, epicure, gourmand. The [...]

Over the weekend, I got into a discussion with a good friend of mine about climate change. What began as a friendly, casual interchange soon developed into one of those exaggerated conversations. You know the kind: where each person temporarily adopts extreme and opposing views, simply the hopes of spicing up an otherwise tepid chat. [...]

The commercial agriculture industry in the United States relies on high yields from annual crops, most of which are single-variety and the only crop grown on a given plot of land all year.
Soil erosion and nutrient degradation have become so pronounced that researchers are concerned about the long-term viability of the industry. Global warming has [...]