Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen
"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.
"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.
Jim Watkins | Posted 08.24.2009 | New York
In a place like New York City, where people are packed together so closely that private conversations can become community events, I see very little concern about having bad language overheard.
Piers Fawkes | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business
Buying and selling still remains at the fore of the online world. Many entrepreneurial minds have envisioned new ways to facilitate our transactions, and bring business beyond cash and coin.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
It seemed as though Jackson chose his own path to death while there are so many others who are literally thrown into the Grim Reaper's grip like carrion to the wolves.
Alexandra Levit | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
Although I don't meet with them on a schedule, the people in my "lifeline group" are the people with whom I can be vulnerable, candid, and accountable.
Paula Gordon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
A tightly held secret is being kept from today's young people. Not having children can be great!
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama urged all Americans Thursday to find a way to serve their country this summer. The president and first lady...
Diane Dulken | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
Real climate solutions are about turning a dire threat into new opportunities for restoring stability and also creating new prosperity, economic and community health and well-being.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
Suddenly people who two years ago wouldn't give smart growth advocates the time of day are talking about things like transit-oriented development and growth boundaries.
Debbie Lister | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living
I was able to channel my inner fourth-grade self, tap into the spelling bee movement, engage professionals with the community and help underserved kids all at the same time.
John Lundberg | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living
Richard Shelton's first interest in a prisoner's poetry was born from curiosity rather than charity. In 1970, a convicted murderer named Charles Schm...
Katie Saddlemire | Posted 07.21.2009 | Living
So many of us would like to volunteer, but feel we lack a valuable resource - time! But giving back doesn't have to mean making huge sacrifices. Ch...
nytimes.com | Chris Colin | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living
VICKI SETZER and her cats inhabit a small ranch home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Visalia, Calif. Connie Baechler leases a split-level house in Smyrna, Ga...
Gimundo.com | Kathryn Hawkins | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
Last week, as pizza delivery driver Steve Walker was heading to an apartment building in a Chicago neighborhood with an order to deliver, he was robbe...
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
We are hosting a complimentary challenge to Google's on the Open Architecture Network, the world's first open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.
Waylon Lewis | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
Just three active months on Twitter later, I've gained 4,900 followers -- and, more importantly, Twitter is among my web site's top ten traffic sources.
AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A rifle-toting convenience store owner said he decided to show mercy on a would-be robber after seeing the man collapse into...
nytimes.com | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living
Like many older people, Paula Rice of Island City, Ky., has grown isolated in recent years. Her four grown children live in other states, her two marr...
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
Cincinnati's historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is poised to become one of America's greatest revitalization stories, in the process creating a national exemplar of sustainable development.
Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living
Michelle Obama recently spoke with Time Magazine's Michael Scherer and Nancy Gibbs about her role in the White House. The First Lady described how she...
Ellie Drake | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
We've built a platform that lets women come together to share and receive inspiration -- to become, declare, and celebrate that they are BraveHeart.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green
Let's be honest -- HUD has become the Department of Subsidized Housing, and that must change. We've got to put the "UD" (urban development) back in HUD.
Douglas Alexander | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
In countries afflicted by conflict we must now add to that core mission a commitment to build peace and to build functioning states.
Christine Schanes | Posted 05.26.2009 | Living
It is possible to end homelessness. How? There are three steps to ending homelessness. These steps can be approached individually or at the...
Peter M. Shane | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media
A national study on the information needs of communities in a democracy needs your help.
Rob Smart | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green