Environment

How Bush’s Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry How Bush’s Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry

Want proof the Iraq War was all about oil? Here it is.

Sep 26, 2007 / Feature / Dilip Hiro

Beyond ‘Green Shopping’ Beyond ‘Green Shopping’

Don't believe the hype that "clean coal," "clean nuclear power" and biofuels will solve the environmental crisis.

Sep 6, 2007 / John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander

The Hundred-Mile Diet The Hundred-Mile Diet

A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.

Aug 23, 2007 / Feature / Christopher Ketcham

A Bronx Tale A Bronx Tale

From Providence to Los Angeles and even the Bronx, urban rivers that were polluted and even paved over are being restored.

Jul 26, 2007 / Tracy Tullis

Why Milk Costs More Than Gas Why Milk Costs More Than Gas

America's kids will get less calcium because of our unabated appetite for gas-guzzling cars--and the wrongheaded belief that ethanol is the answer.

Jul 16, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Religious Leaders Challenge a Polluter Religious Leaders Challenge a Polluter

A delegation of church leaders traveled to the US, calling on corporate mogul Ira Rennert to clean up the smelters that are poisoning the children of Peru.

Jun 26, 2007 / Feature / Sara Shipley Hiles

Watch Your Foodometer Watch Your Foodometer

Here's a way to consume less oil: Eat locally! Video artist Molly Schwartz traces how far food travels from field to fork.

Jun 25, 2007 / The Nation Video

Lady With a Lawnmower Lady With a Lawnmower

She cuts her lawn slowly with a push mower. I save time, hiring men to run machines, burn gas, kill the ozone. Who's the wiser?

Jun 25, 2007 / Feature / Donna Schaper

Getting Real About Food Getting Real About Food

Something very strange has happened to food in the richest country in the world: It's fast, but it ain't good. And it travels way too far a distance from the field to your fork.

Jun 25, 2007 / Feature / Molly Schwartz and Donna Schaper

Dissidents Against Dogma Dissidents Against Dogma

Even more contrarian thinking about global warming.

Jun 7, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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