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Status: Last online 07 Jan 2010

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Climate bill passes Congress: better than nothing...

The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill has passed the House of Representatives late Friday night. >>

No wonder we can't stop eating 'em...

It would appear that the food industry knows precisely how to undermine even the most self-aware person's impulse control >>

Books: Arthur Frommer's Manifesto

Arthur Frommer isn't happy with the press his latest book has been getting.  Reviews, though positive, seem to have left out the most import >>

Locavore Network: online database of small farms

A very good new site, Locavore Network, is building a national US database of small, local food producers >>

Prof. Warren's brainchild: consumer credit protection

Good piece on the NY Times' Economix blog, laying out Elizabeth Warren's idea for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. >>

Health insurers "tone deaf" on the Hill

In a "tone-deaf" session before Congress, health insurance execs testified yesterday that they have no plans to stop canceling sick people's polic >>

Obama rolls out consumer financial protection agency

President Obama is expected to roll out a plan for a new consumer financial protection agency, beginning this afternoon in a series of interviews >>

Must-read: Ehrenreich on the "already-poor"

Read Barbara Ehrenreich's excellent essay in the Times on the "already poor," for whom the recession means giving up not vacations, but a home. >>

I'd rather go naked than eat bluefin tuna

So, at last, Celebrity gets into the ethical-food movement, in Britain at any rate, with such luminaries as Greta Scacchi and Richard E. Grant >>

Now: a solar powered phone for 59 bucks

Cool. Samsung South West Asia announces the launch of a solar-powered phone priced at 2,799 rupees, or $59 US. >>