In an economics laboratory human beings may seem to represent the solution, but with one step outside it seems rather obvious that the garden has suffered since there were only two of us trampling it. Can the solution be to make billions more of us?

This is a man who, during a presidential debate in 2000, giggled about the death penalty. Is it a surprise that he went on to torture?

To these fertile urban pastures comes an idea with almost too many layers of good. A non-profit called Growing Home has converted two vacant lots, so far, into organic gardens. Local produce costs less-both economically and environmentally-so why not?

This one's for you, Judy. While some Americans still refuse to believe global warming, walruses are swarming to the Alaskan shore to escape melting ice and Russian and German ships just inaugurated a new shipping route through the once-frozen Arctic Sea.

Robinson Jeffers wrote this poem in the very early 1960s, while the earth was in the middle of a 20-year cooling trend, and about 15 years before Wallace Broecker launched the term "global warming"....

University of Washington Professor David P. Barash documents our Ponzi scheme with the natural world at length, and he even dips his toe in some mammalian morality...

)&(^&%$^$ may be too blunt a word for the West Wing, and it may also be self-defeating, an attack that harms only the speaker, making him seem too unreasonable for civil discourse. But it's not a career-ender, as the Bush example demonstrates....

A coalition of loons and foot draggers forms to halt America's progress on important issues, and high-speed rail may be their next victim.

Surely, if anyone can rally the planet to save itself it's the community organizer who rose from the blood-spattered ruins of the South Side of Chicago to depose the most virulent strain of American conservatism yet. And the world is counting on him:

Starting with silver dihydrogen citrate...