Environment
Food deficits, deadlier than budget deficits
June 21, 2011Living on a farm makes me think long and deep about food deficits here at home and around the world, deficits far more menacing than budget deficits.
Read moreWho needs the oceans?
June 21, 2011The first ever report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean warns of mass extinction of marine life.
Read moreArizona faces largest wildfire in its history
June 17, 2011Investigators were questioning "persons of interest" in regard to the origin of the blaze, but campfire mishaps aren't the only cause of the fires.
Read moreTired of pollution, Chicago students demand clean air
June 16, 2011Dozens of students, calling themselves the "Anti-Pollution Revolution," from high schools in Chicago's mostly Mexican American neighborhood protested against local power plants.
Read morePete Seeger on Woody Guthrie, youth and the environment
June 16, 2011"These were the original verses, which Woody had written. He sang them several different ways. The way I learned it is how he wrote it, mentioning private property."
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