 |   Not all it's cracked up to be No one can say the egg industry isn't brutally efficient. With the ten largest producers controlling 135 million hens, they can poison millions of people in a single swoop. Tom Philpott explains.
 Ag-gravation Gabriel and his roomies jackhammer up the concrete to make way for a new urban garden. See what happens when that freshly-tilled city soil meets a rainy summer and feral cats.
 Curses, Oiled Again The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Big Oil spent $75 million lobbying Congress in the first six months of 2010. Brad Pitt says he'd reconsider the "death penalty" for BP. Some enviros think the Gulf leak will be good for Louisiana wetlands. And more ...
 the dictionary in the coal mine The latest words added to the Oxford Dictionary of English show our panic-button solutions to global warming are rapidly changing the linguistic climate. Read more.
 Spray it backward UC Berkeley researchers have been studying the relationship between pesticide exposure and attention problems in children living in California's Salinas Valley, aka America's "Lettuce Bowl." Not surprisingly, they're at much higher risk for ADHD. Read more.
 age-defying solution We could probably all stand to talk a little more to our friends and family about why climate change matters. But who would be willing to sit through all that just to spend time with you? Your grandparents, of course. Watch this!
 greenwash alert Everyone in the green-buildings world already understands an energy-efficient house in the middle of car-burbia is a wolf in sheep's clothing -- if they're halfway informed and halfway honest. Who exactly are these writers refuting? Real-estate marketers. Find out more.
 shifting gears As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Despite the global economic crisis, this energy transition is moving at a pace and on a scale that we could not have imagined even two years ago. And it is a worldwide phenomenon. Lester Brown explains.
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