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Stories that made us green with envy in 2023

A roundup of the articles we wish we’d written ourselves this past year.

Reconsidering the American Fridge

Is there any day of the year that tests the capacities of affluent Americans’ French-door refrigerators as much as Thanksgiving? When else do you need to stuff a giant bird carcass, cranberries, pie crust, a wide array of vegetables, and more into a fridge already containing regular groceries? Then there’s the matter of storing the leftovers.In the past century, artificial refrigeration has completely transformed the American food system. Home refrigerators allow people to keep perishables for l

Nat Lash, ProPublica

Janet Wilson, The Desert Sun

Plastics Are Poisoning Both Our Bodies and Our Politics

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the definition of obstruction is knowing exactly how to fix a problem and pursuing everything but the obvious solution. The U.N. Environment Program’s attempts to negotiate a global plastic treaty is suffering from both of these afflictions at once.Negotiators are gathered in Nairobi this week for the third of five meetings to broker a treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The past two meetings di