Eat the View, which is currently in the lead in our online contest, is featured in today's Washington Post.
If Americans planted wartime victory gardens again, the argument goes,
Nina Hachigian writes a very <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd2ecfe-88d0-405d-af94-6b17bd723ed7">thoughtful essay</a> in <em>The New Republic</em>
Via Michael Tomasky, an interview with veteran UN negotiator Lakhdar Brahimi, on how the latter would advise President-elect Obama to deal with the crisis in Gaza.He said that he will pay attention to
For example, produce forest ecosystems that can provide food, fodder (animal feed), fiber (for textiles, etc.) and fuel (dead limbs and oily seed pods as biofuel). Forests are that best sink for carbon and thereby combat global warming. Forest soils are also the best water filters, bar none. They also clean the air and are the most biodiverse systems Also applies to ocean ecosystems, etc. This would also eliminate a great deal of energy expenditure, fight poverty, feed the world and so forth.
