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Farmers are finding they can make more money selling crops for energy than for food. A third of all corn grown in the US gets turned into ethanol. It's tough to balance the need for energy and food when millions around the world die from starvation each year. Still, farmers are reconsidering their roles - including in Germany. In the second part of our three-part series on biofuels in Europe, Sadie Babits meets with one German farmer who wants to make the switch and become an energy farmer:

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski wants to take away the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate greenhouse gases. She's introduced a resolution that would do that. Now, a new radio ad campaign is urging Senators to oppose the resolution. Samara Freemark has the story:

"Titan's Rorschach" by environmental artist Felicity Nove. Some eco-artists are dumpster divers and practice reuse because found materials are cheaper than purchasing new canvases, paints and supplies. That's a good enough reason to upcycle. But Australian artist and environmentalist Felicity Nove has another ulterior motive in her artwork.

Images via CesarHarada digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/real-life-water-world-how-to-set-up-a-self-sustaining-city-at-sea-video.php'; We have an International Space Station. Now, a group of designers wants to take that idea and create a similar project for another vast area - one that is growing: the ocean.

Photo via ICRASN digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/38-worlds-land-danger-turning-desert.php'; If you're not familiar with desertification, it might be time to get acquainted. The term describes the process where land in drier areas becomes subject to 'extreme deterioration' as a result of human activities.

"Can't we just have them water-ski instead?" Photo via The Telegraph While the Eastern seaboard of the US faces whiteout conditions, the host city for the Winter Olympics, set to open this Friday, is finding itself strangely short on snow.

Al Gore often says that we are borrowing from China to buy oil from the Middle East which is destroying the climate. Vote Vets, a liberal veterans advocacy group agrees and is calling on Republican Senators to stop obstructing progress on bills that will put a price on carbon and move us away from our dependance on foreign oil. The grou...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: Good Processed food, plastic containers, and disposable utensils are hallmarks of take out food. They also represent, Good writes, a long chain of waste, oil, and emissions. They also represent an ideal place to "take a bite out of your carbon footprint."...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times In this season's Mad Men, Duck Phillips described Grey Advertising's offices as "a Penn Station toilet with Venetian blinds." Even their chief creative officer describes it in the New York Times as "a symbol of what advertising used to be: very slow and not very nimble." But employees are going to have to be nimble now, just to avoid running into each other; they have ditched the cubicles and condensed their operations from 26