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Life-Cycle Studies: Candy Bars

Anyjazz56/FlickrA snack vending machineStop at almost any checkout counter and you'll find dozens of varieties of candy bars. In the United States, where people consume an average of 10 kilograms (22...

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Vital Signs

Carbon Markets Gain Momentum, Despite ChallengesCarbon markets are designed to combat climate change by putting a price on carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases, and then allowing companies...

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Matters of Scale - We Are What We Read

Number of times “food” appears in the title of a book on the Amazon website68,084Number of times “wine”...

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Sources and Resources for "The Incredible Shrinking Amazon Rainforest"

Brazilian National Space Research Institute (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa Espaciais, INPE), www.inpe.br/ingles/index.php# (limited content in English). Brazilian Environment Ministry, www.mma.gov.br...

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Sources and Resources for "Home-Grown Juice"

U.S. Energy Information AdministrationPVResources.com Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency Wilson Rickerson and Robert C. Grace, The Debate over Fixed Price Incentives for...

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Sources and Resources for "Malaria"

U.S. Centers for Disease Control malaria page (www.cdc.gov/malaria/) Thorough information on specific topics and a global malaria risk map. World Health Organization malaria overview website...

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Sources and Resources for "SCAMming Environmental Policy"

Margarita Alario and William R. Freudenburg, "The Paradoxes of Modernity: Scientific Advances, Environmental Problems, and Risks to the Social Fabric?" Sociological Forum 18 (#2, June 2003): 193-214....

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