I envision twining climbers and container-grown edibles on the deck, with hardy, colorful perennials below.

Newsweek's cover story on global warming details how and why the climate change issue has long been shrouded in doubt.

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Talking about global warming can create a lot of anxiety, but the reality is that all environmental challenges, global warming included, are caused by the way we produce and consume products. Once we understand the cause, we can identify the solutions. There are plenty of them. The Lazy Environmentalist weighs in on this very hot topic.

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Josh Dorfman talks about Easy Solutions to Global Warming. So much is made of Global Warming and it's climate changing impact and what that means for the fate of humanity. It's a scary perdicament especially because we are led to believe that solving global warming and rolling back climate change will require sacrifice and force us to change the way we live for the worse. But what if we had the tools available to use right now to solve global warming?

Most of us got Al Gore's message about global warming messages, after watching An Inconvenient Truth. But now some climatologists have started to question whether that message might have been more alarmist than accurate.

Arctic ice will melt. Mountain ranges will thaw into refuges from the blistering heat. The world's semi-arid regions will turn to wastelands. Scared? We should be, according to the world's leading climate change experts.

Imagine it: You're sitting on an airplane about to take off on a long flight, or you're at the holiday dinner table with your in-laws, and the person next to you