We've eaten, developed and drilled to near oblivion, says the environmental writer. It's time to realize that having more stuff is not the road to paradise. Oh, really?
Ira Boudway Friday, Mar 23, 2007 11:59 AM UTC
Entertainment Environment, U.S. Economy
"The Omnivore's Dilemma" author Michael Pollan on how Wall Street has driven America's obesity epidemic, the misleading labels in Whole Foods, and why we should spend more money on food.
Ira Boudway Saturday, Apr 8, 2006 11:39 AM UTC
Entertainment Author Interviews, Obesity, Books
A passionate book describes how a coal company destroyed an Appalachian mountain -- and exposes the moral and economic bankruptcy of strip mining.
Ira Boudway Wednesday, Feb 15, 2006 12:08 PM UTC
Entertainment Environment, Mine Disasters
A new book asks hundreds of husbands what they think about the real issues in their marriage -- from porn and housework to adultery.
Ira Boudway Monday, Jan 30, 2006 12:50 PM UTC
Life Coupling
A writer and a photographer visit 30 families around the world to show us what the world eats -- and how industrial food is creeping into every corner of the globe.
Ira Boudway Saturday, Dec 10, 2005 12:02 PM UTC
Entertainment Obesity, Books
The author of "Bee Season" ventures into new territory with the story of an Irish Catholic girl in Boston widowed by the influenza epidemic of 1918.
Ira Boudway Saturday, Oct 1, 2005 9:06 PM UTC
Entertainment Fiction, Books
Journalist Jacques Leslie argues that a century of recklessly building dams has put the planet in peril.
Ira Boudway Friday, Sep 23, 2005 4:23 PM UTC
Entertainment Author Interviews, Books
Barbara Ehrenreich set out to write a "Nickel and Dimed" for the white-collar worker -- but everything fell apart when she couldn't nab a corporate job.
Ira Boudway Wednesday, Sep 7, 2005 6:38 PM UTC
Entertainment Books
The lord of horses and cowboys follows a modern-day Texas manhunt -- and a botched drug deal -- in this hard-boiled cinematic thriller.
Ira Boudway Wednesday, Aug 24, 2005 7:35 PM UTC
Entertainment Fiction, Books
A Kansas editor says our assembly-line approach to growing our food is actually contributing to world hunger -- and explains why buying local and buying organic is so important.
Ira Boudway Friday, Jul 15, 2005 7:44 PM UTC
Entertainment Author Interviews, Agriculture
Eyewitness accounts and reactions to the four bomb attacks that rocked the English capital.
Compiled by J.J. Helland and Ira Boudway Thursday, Jul 7, 2005 8:43 PM UTC
News Terrorism, British Election
How the conservative media is pushing "The Truth About Hillary."
Ira Boudway and J.J. Helland Tuesday, Jun 21, 2005 9:18 PM UTC
News Hillary Rodham Clinton