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Meet the Joneses. They're an average American family—Mom, Dad, one kid—who decide to be part of the climate solution. The Jones are just made-up, but this scenario shows that an average family can get carbon-free in 10 years, without turning their lives upside-down. A decade from now, maybe the Joneses new way of life will be the new American average.
13 ways the European Union differs from the U.S. on food safety issues like GMOs, hormones, questionable chemicals, and other food additives.
We spend less time in the kitchen than ever. But here's why Michael Pollan says cooking could be an important solution to our public health crisis.
What do we really trade for all of the cheap stuff we buy?
Why support the co-ops in your community? The benefits might be further-reaching than you think.
Left alone, natural systems keep nitrogen, carbon, and other key ingredients of life balanced.
Laughter, the arts, touch, sleep. What you can do in your everyday life to get healthier.
How to fight diabetes with better policy—and cut your own diabetes risk by 93 percent.
Just 60 years ago, the average American had 291 square feet of living space. Now it’s close to 1,000 square feet. Have we changed our needs that much? Or just our wants?
Debit or credit? Keep your dollars out of corporate clutches.
For corporations, paying for tax breaks is still the best investment around.
Poster: Life out of balance? Ask yourself this ...
Great moments in “laughtivism” from Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, the guys who duped the BBC, embarrassed Dow Chemical, and mocked Halliburton.
The American problem with mass incarceration is less about crime than it is about how—and who—we lock up.