- December 19, 2008 • 1:51 pm PST
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The world may be shrinking, but we're all getting bigger. See how globalization is affecting the way we all eat-for better or for (mostly) worse.
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What does the Koran say about climate change? A lot actually. No other faith on the planet is so clear that human action can destroy the planet.
Everyone knows now that soda is bad and full of sugar and you shouldn't drink it. So you just drink diet soda. Hey, sucker, it's just as bad. And...

Eight steps toward (thinking about starting to think about) losing weight.
WorldChanging links to a very interesting interview with the author of a new book called OneSmallProject. Wes Janz has documented the...
If you need a big fat dose of culture, fast, consider this amazing new book, wherein he has depicted every single piece of art in the MoMA. So, if...
Rad Mountain interprets Issue 009's theme: All You Can Eat.

The New York Times' reports on the latest food movement in the making: behold the Invasivores.
New York City has just announced its latest public art blockbuster. Four giant waterfalls, ranging from 90 to 120 feet high, will fall from...
Texting and instant messaging have been getting bad raps of late, what with their English-language-destroying emoticons (gasp). But unlike...
Moothane Reduction Cow farts-and the contributions of the methane therein to climate change-have long been a favorite bogeyman for critics of...
The Great American Apparel Diet (nothing to do with the American Apparel the apparel company) is "a group of women and two men who have decided to...
Maybe it was that fourth-grade shoebox diorama our teacher assigned as a tie-in to a biography book report (my shoebox Hillary Clinton office was...
Over at The Washington Post's Class Struggle blog, Jay Matthews, extols the virtues of New York City's eight-year-old plan to create so-called...

From eating local food to shared showers, here are eight ways to reduce your impact on the planet that will make your life better as well.
Approximately two-thirds of the United States' adult population is overweight. This is because, on average, adults in the United States are...
In our Transportation Issue, we pinpointed the idea of a "livable street"—streets that are not suited primarily for automobiles, but for a...

Chinese women are taking extremely unhealthy diet measures.
Tata Group, the Indian company behind the tiny, super-cheap Nano car, has just announced it will be selling a low-cost water filter. The Tata...
From the department of small victories, TreeHugger reports: Yesterday, 'copenhagen' beat out 'tiger woods' to claim the mantle of the #1 'most...
Generally speaking, space-saving furniture like fold-out couches signals either cheapness or gimmickry—or both—and unless you're Phillip Marlowe,...