What’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West? by Jim Robbins: Yale Environment 360

These large-scale forest deaths from beetle infestations are likely a symptom of a bigger problem, according to scientists: warming temperatures and increased stress, due to a changing climate.

Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine » As forests die, questionable anxieties thrive

Scientists also find no evidence that this outbreak is unprecedented over time spans of several centuries, or that human fire-suppression has made western U.S. forests unusually prone to fire.

George W. Bush presidential library's blueprints filled with green, following trend of other big public buildings

Questions remain, however. It's not known, for example, whether the landscape maintenance will adhere to organic principles, shunning chemical fertilizers and pesticides in favor of lower-impact methods.

Neither is it known whether the center will be built with green cement, made with the least smog-causing emissions.

The ‘femivore’: New breed of feminist, or frontier throwback? | Grist

The growing pressure amongst educated women to feed one's family not only home-cooked but now home-grown food can morph into just another form of guilt for women employed full-time outside the home.