Foie gras over potato chips? Eurotrash on Belmont. Barbecue jackfruit fried pie? Try Whiffies on Hawthorne. Whatever you’re craving, you can probably find it on sale at a parking lot in Portland. (Full disclosure – the filmmakers interviewed me, and you can actually hear me stuttering like Elmer Fudd just before minute 6 of the trailer.) Migee:Įditor’s note: Eric posted Seattle and Vancouver follow ups to this piece. The nature footage is gorgeous, and the message is worth listening to. If you’re a fan of bioregionalism, check out this Kickstarter project to help fund a film about Cascadia. Regardless, it’s a brilliant example of effective anti-branding: pithy, memorable, disgusting, and (for anyone who remembers school cafeteria lunches) believably evocative. It certainly doesn’t sound appetizing, but I don’t actually know. I have no particular opinion on whether “pink slime” is healthy. The product…is exposed to “a puff of ammonium hydroxide gas” to kill bacteria, such as E. The lean mix then is compressed into blocks for use in ground meat. The bits are heated to about 100 F and spun to remove most of the fat. The low-cost ingredient is made from fatty bits of meat left over from other cuts. Thank goodness: the USDA is allowing school cafeterias to opt out of serving “lean finely textured beef,” also known as “ pink slime.” But as the numbers clearly show, there’s less economic mobility in the US than in many other rich countries and most studies show that economic mobility is static or perhaps decreasing-though women may now be more upwardly mobile than men. Of course, the issue of economic inequality wouldn’t be so crucial if there was lots of economic mobility-that is, if people moved from the bottom to the top of the income ladder all the time. From the press release: “While toxicologists generally focus on animals exposed to a compound, work…demonstrates that diseases can also stem from older, ancestral exposures that are then mediated through epigenetic changes in sperm.” Ick!Ī short, readable guide to Tactical Urbanism: how to create mini-parks, greener streetscapes, safe places for kids to play in cities, and more!Īpparently, 2010 was a very good year to be in the 1 percent. WSU researchers find that exposure to toxic chemicals can affect the next three generations of offspring. Only one textbook received a worse grade this time around: Roger Miller’s Economics Today, 16 th ed. Not coincidentally, it has also earned the coveted 2012 Ruffin and Gregory Award for the Worst Treatment of Climate Change in an Economics Textbook. (Our previous review gave the 3rd edition a C+, describing it as “a masterpiece vandalized by hooligans”.) As a political aside, it is worth noting that Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw, whose textbook also received a top grade, are the two economists advising Mitt Romney. As in 2010, some hit the mark while others are wildly misleading, but we’re happy to say that there’s plenty of good news: about half of the books improved their treatment of climate change.Įspecially noteworthy is Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien’s Economics, 4th ed., which has jumped to the top of our list. This spring marks the release of new editions of introductory economics textbooks, so it’s a good time to update our 2010 review of the treatment of climate change in economics textbooks.
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