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 to update our educational system. Since we are no longer an agricultural society, it's time to move away from closing schools in the summer. This will significantly help working families, since they won't have to pay for childcare of summer programs for their children. More importantly, it will give our children another semester of instruction. This will also serve to reinforce our countries work ethic, since our children will learn to work and apply themselves year round.
The Department of Transportation shall implement a Traffic Engineering program. The US has 250 million passenger vehicles and consumes 142 trillion gallons of gasoline per year (EIA). Despite this, traffic management is left up to cities and states which lack expertise in traffic management. Queuing methods that achieved a 5% reduction would create a savings of over 7 trillion gallons of gasoline in one year, yet this simple program does not require sweeping revision to our infrastructure.
