| November/December 2008

Can We Save the Planet and Rescue the Economy at the Same Time?
We put a man on the moon, didn't we?
By Al Gore

The Seven Deadly Deficits
What the Bush years really cost us
By Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Most Important Number on Earth
Is it too late to escape the greenhouse danger zone?
By Bill McKibben

PLUS:  Cutting CO₂ for fun and profit

Diet for a Warm Planet
Watch your extra carbon melt away!
By Julia Whitty

Burning Questions
Taking the guesswork out of going green
By Ben Whitford

PLUS:  Ecogeek deathmatch: Ed Begley Jr. vs. Bill Nye

The Truth About Green Jobs
When are they coming? Who gets them? Are they really outsourcing-proof?
By David Roberts

What About the Dirty Jobs?
Stop condescending to the brown-collar crowd.
By Chris Lehmann

Losing Focus
How Ford went into the ditch
By Fara Warner

The Science Project
What's holding up the breakthroughs
By Chris Mooney

Out of the Woods
Lumberjacks and tree sitters, together at last
By Josh Harkinson

Big Green Brother
Wal-Mart pushes clean living. Yes, Wal-Mart.
By Katharine Mieszkowski

PLUS:  T. Boone Pickens' hot air on wind energy

Earth to Washington
Why DC doesn't get it
By David Corn

Let's Go Europe
Brussels' greener government: Could it happen here?
By Mark Schapiro

The Great Persuader
Can Obama walk his talk?
By Kevin Drum

PLUS:  Cleaning up the House

Gas drilling in western Colorado makes the water foul and the locals angry.
Photographs by Christopher Lamarca
Text by Rebecca Clarren

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Editors' Note
Masthead
Contributors
Backtalk

OUTFRONT
Bush's bureaucrats burrow in; Monica Goodling's search for "good Americans"; is the oil shortage a scam?; Rudolph the stranded reindeer; can the water whisperer end drought forever?; sneaky ways to block the vote; why tax shelters are cozier than ever; how green is your team?

EXHIBIT
Germ warfare
By Kiera Butler
Fighting bacteria only makes them mad.

WITNESS
After Math
By Robin Mejia
When public health researcher Les Roberts set out to count Iraq's dead, the last thing he expected was a math war.

PRACTICAL VALUES
O Say Can You Buy?
By Nicole McClelland
I bought American for a week and all I got was this lousy tank top.

MEDIA JONES
Michael Agger on the new Thoreauvians; Buffy creator Joss Whedon thinks feminism is hot; gaming global warming; plus more book(Al' America, The Narcotic Farm, Remix), film(Boogie Man), and music(Make the Road by Walking, Heart On, Dirt Don't Hurt, Does You Inspire You) reviews

P.S.
American holidays
Photographs by Julia Gillard