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• The GINK videos

  Michelle Goldberg on the globalized culture war over reproductive rights [VIDEO]

  Posted 30 Oct 2010 7:16 AM By Lisa Hymas

  The culture war raging in the U.S. over abortion and reproductive rights isn't confined within our country's borders -- it's gone global. "All over the planet, conflicts between tradition and modernity are being fought on the terrain of women's bodies," writes Michelle Goldberg in her book The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. Watch her talk about women's rights and population. Read More

• taters gonna hate

  Man out to prove potatoes aren’t junk food eats nothing but potatoes for two months 1

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 5:52 PM By Ashley Braun

  Man cannot live on bread alone, but can he live on nothing but potatoes? The chief of the Washington State Potato Commission is finding out firsthand by eating nothing but 20 potatoes a day for two months. [BONUS: Watch him make mashed potatoes with a potato gun!] Read More

• Why weight?

  Nutritionist Marion Nestle fingers the missing calories in America’s big binge 2

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 3:21 PM By Ashley Braun

  America, ever obsessed with diet and health, is stumped by the problem of obesity. Figuring out what to eat really isn't that hard, says author and food systems researcher Marion Nestle. If this basic human instinct seems more complicated than that, it's the effect of food marketing. Read More

• The art of losing isn't hard to master

  Evangelical climate hawk learns hard knocks in House race 4

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 2:57 PM By Jonathan Hiskes

  Ben Lowe (D) is a 25-year-old first-time candidate getting whomped in a suburban Chicago congressional race. He's also an intriguing candidate, coming from an evangelical bastion and running on clean energy, compassionate immigration reform, "restraint in military spending," and scrubbing corporate money from politics. Read More

• Boo who?

  Chipotle rolls out some scare tactics for Halloween 3

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 2:47 PM By Bonnie Azab Powell

  This Halloween, Chipotle is inviting you to scare them -- for a very good cause. The chain is raising money for Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution campaign. All you have to do is dress up as an edible foodlike substance and buy a $2 burrito. Read More

• save the things

  Biodiversity is an urban concern

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 11:54 AM By Jonathan Hiskes

  Biodiversity doesn't get as much attention as it should now that climate change has become preeminent among environmental quandaries. But it's important! Read More

• Crop circles

  The only thing ‘green’ about NASCAR’s switch to corn ethanol is the cash 1

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 11:06 AM By Donald Carr

  Using an energy-hogging fuel to gas up cars circling a track is absurd. NASCAR might want to ask its fans whether they'd rather watch races -- or be able to fish in clean water or hunt in abundant habitat. Read More

• raising the bar

  Master chocolatiers give green chocolate a boost

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 10:53 AM By Agence France-Presse

  Luxury chocolatiers showed off their organic chocolates at the Salon du Chocolate in Paris, France. Read More

• Do the rights thing

  Angela Glover Blackwell talks about the connection between transportation and social justice 3

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 9:51 AM By Sarah Goodyear

  Starting with Plessy v. Ferguson, access to transportation has been a civil rights issue in this country. The founder of PolicyLink explains why it still is. Read More

• The Flawed Squad

  Is Halliburton the real heavy in the Gulf oil explosion?

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 6:41 AM By Randy Rieland

  Dick Cheney's old outfit is back in the line of fire for mixing "unstable" cement. Plus, the French weigh in on global warming and the U.S. Navy runs on algae. Read More

• A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

  The Climate Post: Pre-election maneuvering marked by fits of climate skepticism 1

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 5:39 PM By Christopher Mims

  Accepting the scientific consensus on climate change continues to be a liability for Republican candidates. One representative, Bob Inglis, blames his loss in the GOP primary to his public assertions that climate change is real. Plus, Jimmy Carter strikes back and a conservative whines about a cap without trade. Read More

• choc and awe

  Droves of confused, well-meaning kids giving candy back this Halloween 8

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 3:36 PM By Ashley Braun

  This Halloween, thousands of little boys and ghouls are expected to be roaming the streets, handing candy back to houses they visit. Are they confused? Not really. It's just part of a choc-and-awe campaign designed to turn trick-or-treaters into trick-or-fair-traders. Read More

• Strickland finally talks up energy and transit in Ohio guv race 5

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 3:24 PM By Jonathan Hiskes

• Playing squash: my tweak of an iconic fall soup 2

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 3:10 PM By Tom Philpott

• Ask Umbra’s Book Club: Are you trading in Mickey D’s for DIY burgers? 12

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 2:59 PM By Umbra Fisk

• Chevron thinks we’re stupid [VIDEO]

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 2:59 PM By Jonathan Hiskes

• Rebuilding a historic neighborhood where some risked all for their humanity

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 2:16 PM By Kaid Benfield

• China takes the wind out of the U.S. 8

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 1:18 PM By Todd Woody

• Bellingham’s biking nurse 1

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 1:08 PM By Jonathan Hiskes

• Schwarzenegger and James Cameron team up to terminate Prop 23 2

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 12:52 PM By Todd Woody

• French artist turns ‘garbage with talent’ into beautiful lighting [PHOTOS]

  Posted 29 Oct 2010 11:52 AM By treehugger.com

• The UniverCity project: An experiment in suburban urbanism 8

  Posted 28 Oct 2010 11:40 AM By Jonathan Hiskes

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