Where does your food come from?
Do you know where your fish is from?
Has big business turned organics into ‘yuppy chow’?
British film-makers ask: what is the hidden cost of your £2 latte?
From a Chinese oil refinery to your Twinkie
Health
China dysfunction – May 22
Birth control measures prompt riots in China
Beijing blames pollutants for rise in killer cancers
Three Gorges Dam is hurting river, study finds
Dysfunction – May 16
Polymers are forever
Frenetic lifestyle puts the boots to leisurely strolls
Transport – May 11
Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change
Frenetic lifestyle puts the boots to leisurely strolls
Urban design – May 8
No-walking blues (in suburban sprawl)
Cycling good in Cascadia, Europe’s better
Spain balks at corrupt urbanization
Transport – May 7
Binge-flying culture
Qantas sale: flying blind into turbulent times
A two-wheeled option (with battery) for commuters
Taking our time off – slower vacations
Your car + your commute = A visit to your doctor
Food & agriculture – May 7
Questioning the compost supply chain
100-mile diet: ‘Food mile’ foibles.
As the climate warms, gentler plants move in
Please Lord, not the bees
Astyk: No more scrod
Could the mysterious agricultural techniques of an ancient Amazonian civilization make New Zealand farming more competitive?
Climate – Apr 27
Industry caught in carbon ‘smokescreen’ (investigation of carbon credits)
’08 hopefuls tout climate-change plans
Climate change bites (health blowback)
Wolfowitz deputy under fire over climate
Swedes would lower living standard to help climate
Housing & urban – Apr 23
Where we live may be to blame for obesity
Corporate subsidies that feed sprawl
New book: How Green is Your City?
Climate – Apr 19
Climate could trigger ‘boom and bust’ population cycles, lead to extinction
Global warming may put U.S. in hot water
Smog, heat waves may contribute to big rise in illness
Water – Apr 5
Global forecast is ‘mostly dry’
An arid West no longer waits for rain
Drugs are in the water. Does it matter?
Peak oil, public health, and vulnerable populations
The awareness of a future decline in world oil production needs to be incorporated at the local level in public health systems planning. Here in Oregon, Portland’s Peak Oil Task Force is the first in the nation to identify likely impacts from Peak Oil.
