 |   Green tape cutters Across the U.S., cities are buckling up their green belts and introducing legislation to foster local-food production, reports Kerry Trueman for Grist's Feeding the City series. Because nobody wants to get caught with their pantry down? Read more.
 Become a potatriot today! Skinless frankfurters, laying-hen lessons, fat recycling -- the Obama administration could take a few tips from propagandizing presidencies past. Check out the posters!
 Lead Salad Days? Urban gardening has a dark side -- toxic soil. A reader wants to know whether cosmopolitan dirt is safe for growing food. Is there lead in that urban farm salad? Ask Umbra investigates and gives some soil savvy tips for urban and suburban-dwellers with green thumbs who want to get the lead out and get growing. Find out more.
 Certain members of the U.S. Congress believe that America shouldn't do anything about climate change until China does. Putting aside the moral illogic of that position, let's focus on something China is doing: shutting down old, dirty coal plants. David Roberts explains.
 Your Guido to Green The Jersey Shore's Snooki is one of the biggest names in entertainment right now. But will this orange star ever be green? Darby Minow Smith gives her a little unsolicited eco-advice. Read more.
 Shell-shocked Why does Europe have fewer food scares than we do? Grist deputy food editor Bonnie Powell lays it out in a Reuters op-ed. Read more.
 Sea to Shiny Sea Deepwater drilling may be on hold in the Gulf of Mexico, but it's about to hit high gear in the Arctic. The Arctic, alleged site of 20 percent of Earth's untapped oil, is more accessible now thanks to melting polar ice and our past inability to resist the temptations of easy fossil fuels. Read more.
 it's electric, boogie woogie woogie! As a general -- and generally very reliable -- rule, songs about green issues suck. Which makes it that much more refreshing to find this fun and catchy anthem about electric vehicles from the band They Might Be Giants. Won't you take this song for a ride?
 My smart meter, my self No one said transforming the century-old power system into a state of-the-art digital smart grid was going to be easy. But California already is getting bogged down in a growing fight over installing smart utility meters in homes. Read more.
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