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Bucky's idea of the next revolution being a design revolution is totally relevant now. For this short video, we wanted to find the voices of our local world to build the tone of engagement of us all in designing the next world, now emerging in our fertile imaginations...Long live Bucky. WR

Sunday’s New York Times Magazine featured a great article by Michael Pollan about how hard it is to eat these days. By that he means that we’re flooded with information about our food choices even as those food choices proliferate, and more often than not as soon as we get used to one new idea about what to eat and why another study comes down the pike to refute it. This, Pollan says, is the result of nutritionism, a new kind of dietary ideology that has us more focused on what’s in our food than we are focused on simply eating the right foods themselves.

Every once in a while you are privileged to be able to work with people who have found a way to tackle some of the toughest challenges our society faces. While I’m passionate about politics, the environment, and health care, nothing is of greater concern to me than issues of justice & equity. And while we know that systemically all these issues are related, choosing to work on creating a new paradigm for low income, minority women is work that most of us are simply unable or unwilling to do.

Treehugger's Jeff McIntire-Strasburg is back with this week’s look at our rapidly warming world.

I found Eban here in Vermont while teaching at Middlebury College for the January term. He is passionate about the need to move people's thinking on the issue of climate change. Check out the project he is working on Focus the Nation.

Hey - great post on Joel Makower's blog today on whether going 'carbon neutral' is good enough for a business in taking on the questions around reducing their carbon footprint. Joel writes: "buying offsets for an energy-wasteful home or business and calling it environmentally responsible is akin to buying a Diet Coke to go with your double bacon cheeseburger -- and calling it a weight-loss program. Efficiency (and calorie reduction!) comes first."

As a subscriber to far to many magazines already, I approach the decision to add something else to my mailbox with great caution. Caution for the environmental impact as well as the emotional distress that comes with not be able to keep up with everything I already get. Even so, I have to say that the second issue of Good magazine was impressive.

“Fly from New York to California and back and you will generate as much greenhouse gas emissions as you will by driving your Prius all year.” Oh my god… I’m reading this 35,000 feet in the air en route from New York to California, a trip I will make again this month. Next month I will go all the way to India. We have a window of opportunity to do something about all this as the new Democratic majority floats bills that take tiny bites out of a gigantic problem. But what is really required? Back in November, I recommended the new book Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning

Here's this week's global warming Convenient Truths guest post from Treehugger's Jeff McIntire-Strasburg:

We keep looking for Inspired Protagonists for climate change to inspire you'all to make a video for our Convenient Truth video contest. Thanks Bill...fun interview. WR