| Mar 26, 2014 | Food / FarmingI know I shouldn’t be, but I am shocked by Americans’ laziness. We look for the closest parking spot to the gym so that we don’t have to walk those extra few steps. We indulge in watching more cooking shows, yet actually cook less than ever. We...
| Mar 19, 2014 | Environment / HealthIt’s hard not to love mediocre, bad, or even awful movies that portray a post-apocalyptic or utterly dysfunctional future. If you’ve watched Logan’s Run, Water World, The Day After Tomorrow, AI, or Soylent Green more than once, you’ll know what...
| Feb 26, 2014 | Environment / HealthHave you heard? The world is running out of accessible clean water. Humanity is polluting, mismanaging, and displacing our finite freshwater sources at an alarming rate. Since 1990, half the rivers in China have disappeared. The Ogallala Aquifer that supplies the U.S....
| Feb 12, 2014 | Environment / Health2014 has been a bad year for drinking water. First, a coal industry chemical spill left West Virginia residents in nine counties with water so polluted they could only use it to flush their toilets. And now 82,000 tons of coal ash have found their way into a river...
| Jan 29, 2014 | Environment / HealthAs a West Virginian, I have one question for you — is coal pollution in your water, too? The answer might surprise you. Here in West Virginia, thousands continue to wonder whether their water is safe after a recent coal chemical spill just upstream from the...
