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Sure, we admit that in this advanced age of corporate synergy and super-sophisticated PR, getting video artists to make ads for giant corporations is a dubious enterprise to be applauding. However, to make it in such a competitive art world and design marketplace one has to, as they say, “pimp the system,” so we applaud [...]

Even though the national diet is dominated by such healthy staples as hamburgers, hot dogs and the ever-lengthening sub-sandwich-gyro-hero-whathaveyou, smaller areas have some incredibly specific and gross-sounding local foods. Like Hawaii’s spam Musubi, seen at right, or Western Alaska’s Akutaq, an ice cream-like food made from whipped fat, berries, sugar and meat. Read all about [...]

We were awful excited to read in yesterday’s Times that Michelle Obama is taking an extremely public and proactive approach to reforming American diets. After all, as the nation with the highest obesity rates in the world and the greatest direct impact on every other nation’s diets, it’s pretty unforgivable that we eat so poorly.
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We here at Listicles have always been concerned with the nation’s (nay, the world’s) diet. When billions are being served McDonald’s (or Dunkin’ Donuts, at right), it’s no surprise obesity rates in the U.S. are at record highs and rising elsewhere throughout the world. Well, add another miracle to President Barack Obama’s “Miracles to Perform” [...]

Those movie-going environmentalists over at TreeHugger have compiled a helpful listicle that could just as easily read “Top 5 Food Movies of 2008.” For the year that saw the new localism go global (”glocalism”?) and widespread awareness of what’s at stake in the shifting debates over how we produce and distribute our food, it makes [...]

Amidst all the seriousness of outgoing presidents, incoming administrations, green living and less harmful car design, it’s easy to lose sight of the clever creativity and ambition of the people at the forefront of the DIY movement. As we enter an era of localism, artisanal production, retrofitting and sustainable design, these inventive combinations of recepticles [...]

For all our efforts to offer you, dear readers, as many environmentally-minded listicles as we can read, the greening of the Interweb is advancing at such a pace that we honestly can’t keep up with all the eco-friendly listicles.
What better way, then, to do justice to all the green listicles (”greensticles”?) than to dedicated this [...]

With our media cycles accelerating to the point of time travel, some great 2009 lists caught our eye before the year even began. More risky than lists that summarize past events, we especially like prediction lists for offering a thrilling vision of what the future might look like. To get an idea of what the [...]

While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]

With 2009 upon us and its anticipated financial crises, meltdowns and other shorthands for disaster hogging the headlines, let’s not lose sight of that other crisis, the environmental one. Working out more and being more careful with money are great New Year resolutions for you, but what about the royal, interconnected, mutually dependent “us”?
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