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
We need a renewable energy economy that immediately switches subsidies and focus from oil and gas to wind and solar, both large and small scale. Feed-in technologies will enable solar producing homes to feed extra energy into the grid and be paid for it.
Preventive antibiotic use in CAFOs will be outlawed, as it can foster antibiotic resistant bacteria. This would also lead to the closing of CAFOs, with their unsanitary conditions. Local food systems will be encouraged over centralized.
