United States

 By Jessica Marshall, Connecticut – June 2009
            Despite their relative anonymity, community gardens are cropping up in rural and urban Americana.   And, judging by the way the typical American now spends her grocery dollar, we’re changing the way we think, act, and eat. 
            Recent economy woes have shaken consumer trust in big business, and this [...]

By Carrie Thienes, Oregon – June 2009
            Human progress often comes at the cost of spectacular scientific blunders. Such seems to be the case for a growing number of physician groups and scientists who say that while Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) promise colossal profits for a handful of biotech multinationals patenting them they also hold [...]

The development of clean energy is largely hampered by government’s support of oil, coal, and lobbyists.

In what is viewed by some as blatant discrimination, on November 8 (2008) the California Supreme Court upheld the controversial Proposition 8 and defined marriage as being between one man and one woman.

The Editor in Chief remembers broadcasting icon Don Hewitt, founder and producer of 60 Minutes and so much more.

By Amelia Bowen, California – July 2006
            Americans may be enjoying economic prosperity now, but riding on our past successes without looking to the future may soon be the cause of our own demise.  Unless we can compete in the global marketplace, we will find our economy declining dramatically, perhaps becoming comparable to that of [...]

By Shoshanna Stern, California – July 2006
      Nothing annoys the bejesus out of me more than one phrase – “I don’t know.” It’s an acceptable answer at times, because we don’t always know everything, and we should never presume that we do. “I don’t know” can be an honest answer.  
         But sometimes “I don’t know” [...]

By Laura Pacifici , Pennsylvania – July 2006                                          
            For a group of students from a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, news reports from Iraq of insurgency, sectarian violence, mortar attacks, civilian deaths and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) were insufficient. Lacking were the voices of the Iraqi people and the war’s effect on them. 
            And so when [...]

On June 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) – a historic step toward a new clean energy economy and a healthy future. But the final bill that comes out of the U.S. Senate must go even further to allow clean energy to favorably transform our economy, put millions of Americans back to work, and solve global warming.