 |   Green you in September Labor Day isn't here yet, but band camp is over and a few straight-A students are mentally getting ready to go back to school. Ask Umbra gives guidance counseling on how to green your keg-stand campus and raise greener money for a student organization. If you like higher learning, you'll want to read this!
 Grist Talks In this new series, "Grist Talks: Food Fight," experts and pundits will debate hot-button food issues via a -- what else! -- virtual roundtable. Our first topic: Are diehard locavores misguided in thinking their food choices are helping to save the planet? Anna Lappé, Jill Richardson, Ken Meter, Kerry Trueman, Tom Philpott, and others weigh in.
 Doggone environmentalists ... A dog's carbon pawprint is probably larger than you think. But instead of jettisoning the whole idea of a pet, how about choosing a smaller pooch?
 Bank notes Local Produce Link enables food pantries to get the same locally grown, farm fresh, and sometimes organic produce as posh Manhattan restaurants. And their clients, young and old, get to visit farms to see where that fresh food comes from. Find out more.
 The GINK videos Does it really make a difference to global sustainability if Americans have fewer children? Damn straight, says William Ryerson, president of the Population Institute. Find out more.
 Crude behavior The investigation into the Deepwater Horizon explosion continues today against a backdrop of some less-than-peppy news about our climate and energy future. Find out more.
 Spotlight: John Guinotte, Marine Conservation Biology Institute Earth's oceans have always absorbed carbon dioxide. So far, they've managed to stay ahead of our wanton CO2 emitting ways. But even the oceans have a limit. All that CO2 has acidified the oceans, and marine biologist John Guinotte says that spells trouble for the corals he studies and for the marine ecosystem as a whole. Read more.
 Cast Irons in the fire Jennifer Prediger hosts her biggest dinner party yet in her tiny Brooklyn apartment and gets sentimental about heirloom cast iron skillets. Read more.
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