Magazine.

Stay informed.

Constantly updated comment and commentary
to keep us all informed and engaged.
Check back regularly to stay in the loop.

Israeli hummus cafe gives Jewish-Arab tables half off

Owner offers free refill to Jews and Palestinian guests dining together, to show that "we're all human beings"...

20 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

The Government Is Afraid to Tell You Meat Is Bad for the Planet But Here’s Why It Doesn’t Matter

Our governments are like the colonial British empire of early 20th century India: they are frightened of upsetting their precariously teetering positions at the bow of the Titanic. Just as Gandhi pointed out then during the Khadi movement, it is we, the people, who need...

20 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

Sam Kass Wants to Put the Climate on the Menu Before It’s Too Late

As the world prepares for critical climate negotiations in Paris this December, the former White House chef hopes to put food and agriculture on the global climate agenda—and on world leaders' plates...

19 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

Activists Shut Down Wall Street Journal’s “Why We Love Meat” Symposium

When animal rights activists with Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) planned a disruption at a Wall Street Journal symposium celebrating the consumption of meat, even they…...

19 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

Comment: Dropping in on the animal rights movement

No change — they still want everyone to go vegan...

19 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

New UN climate deal text: what’s in, what’s out

It is "unbalanced, lacked ambition and specificity, with many open political issues" - EU Climate Commissioner, Miguel Arias Caniete...

18 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

This Is the Beginning of the End of an Era for SeaWorld … Here’s Why

Please don't continue any business that relies on exploiting animals...

16 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

Sailesh Rao On Why Ahimsa (Nonviolence) Is An Essential Response to Climate Change

Today I am pleased to offer a conversation with environmentalist, engineer and technologist Sailesh Rao, the founder and Executive Director of environmental non-profit, Climate Healers...

16 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

McDonald’s franchisees say the brand is in a ‘deep depression’ and ‘facing its final days’

McDonald's franchisees believe the brand is in a "deep depression" and could be facing its "final days"...

16 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

Simple Device Improves Efficiency of Traditional Cook-stove

A simple metal device that costs roughly $1 to manufacture can hugely improve the efficiency of a traditional brick and mud cook-stove, cutting out the need for wood…...

15 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

The biggest question about climate change isn’t ‘if’ or ‘when.’ It’s ‘how abrupt?’

A new study suggests that abrupt climate changes could happen at relatively low global temperature increases…...

15 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

Congressmen want probe of Exxon Mobil ‘failing to disclose’ climate change data

The shoe is dropping on Exxon Mobil and other fossil fuel companies...

15 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

UN agency and French Government urge inclusion of food security in global climate change debate

“We believe that agriculture in the broad sense – including forestry, fisheries and aquaculture – can and must play a central role in addressing climate change, particularly in adapting its impacts, such as water scarcity, soil salinity or increasing pests and diseases of plants and...

14 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

Rising numbers of Americans believe climate science, poll shows

Climate change spares no one. As droughts persist in rich countries...

13 October, 2015 / 0 Comments

The world economic order is collapsing and this time there seems no way out

"The heart of the economic disorder is a world financial system that has gone rogue. Global banks now make profits to a extraordinary degree from doing business with each other. As a result, banking’s power to create money out of nothing has been taken to...

12 October, 2015 / 0 Comments