November/December 2009 Issue
Climate Countdown
Our best chance to fix global warming begins on December 7. Tick. Tick. Tick.
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Too Hot to Handle
The Copenhagen climate talks must succeed. Will they?
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Agents of Climate Change
A quick guide to carbon lobbyists...all 2,810 of them.
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To the Lifeboats
Meet the people of Tuvalu, the world's first climate refugees.
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The Last Breakup
Freak floods flattened Eagle, Alaska. One man's race against the water.
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The New Dust Bowl
The new Dust Bowl: Drought and climate change are drying up California's fertile Central Valley.
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Betting the Farm
Agribusiness got everything it wanted in the climate bill. Then it came back for more.
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GM's Money Trees
GM's plan to offset its SUVs misses the Brazilian rainforest for the trees.
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Earth in the Balance Sheet
Can you really save an ecosystem by slapping a price tag on it?
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Not Under my Backyard
Storing CO2 underground sounds like a great idea—unless it's benath your yard.
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Return of the Fungi
The holy grail of mushrooms could cure smallpox, TB, and maybe swine flu. Can Paul Stamets unlock its secrets before it's gone?
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Departments
Outfront
Serving time at a pretend prison riot; Attica, Attica!; Denver's airport of doom; Ex-Lax fish—it's what's for dinner; rebranding slimy seafood; the best medicine money can bribe; emergency care for the uninsured; your DNA decoded (for dollars); everybody into the gene pool!
Exhibit
- Aboxalypse Now
- Rules of containment: killer clamshells, shrunken snacks, and other packages from our overwrapped world.
Notebook
- Bank Buster
- Can an earnest populist Harvard prof police the bailout?
Media Jones
It's hard out there for an imp: Dave Gilson on the death of the prank; plus more book, film (The Queen and I), and music reviews
MoJo Interview
- Don't Call Me Warrior
- Author Sherman Alexie on Obama's tribe, Indian wannabes, and why Kindles aren't sexy
- DJ Shadow's Killer App
- DJ Shadow dumps iTunes
- Lady, Lead On
- Ayelet Waldman on actresses of a certain age
Practical Values
- Is Your Eco-Label Lying?
- Peeling back your eco-labels: What does "natural" really mean?
Cover photos by: Somos Photography/Veer; Ausloeser/Corbis; John-Francis Bourke/Corbis; Elke Van De Velde/Corbis
