Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac? Part of the reason is that a huge proportion of our food subsidies go to meat while only 0.37 percent go to fruits and vegetables. That makes meat and dairy artificially cheap, so we end up consuming more of it than we should, and getting fatter. 
This video (below the jump) investigates why one in seven people is malnourished, how food dependency affects the poor, and how we can make sure we've all got enough to eat in the resource-strapped future. It's pretty comprehensive.
It's interesting that comparative advantage—that awesome win-win arrangement you learned about in... 
Inspired by the Apps for Healthy Kids competition, part of the First Lady's Let's Move campaign, we teamed up with the White House Blog yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, and we asked our friends: What healthy kid app would you design? We ask a question to our Twitter and Facebook faithful once a day, so if you’re not yet following @GOOD or a... 
Writing at The Oil Drum, Megan Quinn Bachman explains how she polled 2,005 members of two sustainability-oriented listservs (she doesn't mention which ones) to get a sense of what changes these "lifestyle leaders" had made in response to concerns about climate change and peak oil. The results are above.
I'm not going to start brushing up... 
There's a little fracas in France over the problem of overpackaging. In response to an anti-overpackaging ad campaign, a company called Elipso Packaging released this video (below the jump).
So there you have it. Either deal with five layers of pointless plastic and cardboard or keep all your fromage in your pockets. It's your call. 
It's time for a National Young Farmers Coalition to combine politics and pitchforks.
It’s an old joke, but it says a lot.
“What do you call it when a farm is willed to your children?”
“Child abuse.”
Seriously though, farming is hard work and farmers make up an increasingly small segment of the population. And that... 
Following yesterday's shout-out, the White House and GOOD are officially joining forces to ask: What kind of healthy kid app would you like to see developed?
As part of the First Lady's Let's Move campaign, which hopes to eradicate childhood obesity within a generation, today Michelle Obama announced the... 
Ever since Al Gore assumed the mantel of climate-change-crusader-in-chief, he's been dogged by a vocal group of critics (led by PETA) who accuse him of refusing to discuss what they see as the real issue: Our consumption of meat.
A piece in Truthout yesterday repeated the charge:
Al Gore penned a lengthy New York Times op-ed entitled, "We... 
This company called the Survival Seed Bank has been advertising on Glenn Beck's show. For $149, they'll sell you a kit full of seeds so you can plant a "full acre crisis garden" when America experiences a "real meltdown."
They're really catering to the apocalyptic, 2012 set:
You don't have to be an Old Testament prophet to see what's... 
