Patrick James
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Make it by Monday: A DIY Valentine's Day
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
A year ago, parents in the small farming community of Kettleman City, Calif., were shy and unquestioning. Many were dealing with the devastation...
Target was touting its buy-back program while quietly paying a $22.5 million settlement for illegal dumping of hazardous waste. Did we get fooled?
San Francisco plans to dump 27 million pounds of bleach into its sewers this summer. Greener options exist so why isn't the city considering them?
A money-raising art project is using oil collected from the BP oil spill to create posters that will help fund the relief.
Who knows? But people think it helps their health, and they're taking a lot of it. But, turns out it can be really bad for the environment,...
A recent Grist article discusses the issue of offshore drilling as a byproduct of U.S. aspirations for energy independence. Since oil reserves in...
Watch these Tea Party activists spit in their gift horse's mouth.
I was glued to my phone, until I realized it was making my life easier, not better.
Oil is at a record high today. Over 75 dollars a barrel. Great news!.
If Fox News started a gas station, it'd probably be this one - Terror-Free Oil. Yes, this really exists, and yes, they sell freedom fries.
A short history of black gold, from the ancient Persian army's flaming oil-dipped arrows to today's piercing pain at the pump.
Last-minute regulations cement Bush's dirty legacy Despite a backdrop of two wars and a crumbling economy that desperately needs attention, the...
The folks at the excellent energy blog The Oil Drum are calling it: peak oil happened in mid-2008 at 81.73 million barrels per day. That means...
Crude Blogging We're running out of oil, but search for the phrase "peak oil" on the websites of 31 major U.S. newspapers, and you'll get a...
In a recent post, Ben Jervey talked about the fearsome possibility that a hurricane might pass over the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and...
Esquire has a modest gallery of art created as commentary on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Included are Jane Fulton Alt's "Crude Awakening"...
There's an arresting image about a third of the way into Joe Berlinger's new documentary, Crude, that sees a young Ecuadorian boy holding two...
It's just hard to know what to say about this tragedy. This infographic (larger version here) starts to put it in perspective. The numbers are...
According to the YouTube channel for the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command, "This video is from the larger of two existing leaks on the riser....
Making a complete switch to clean, sustainable power seems a bit of a tough sell at the moment, considering that oil still accounts for a whopping...
