Who would’ve thunk it. Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, meeting in Long Beach, Ca., announced this week that they’ve forged an agreement to work collaboratively against global warming. While the import of the agreement is not fully clear—and while some critics derided it as a “symbolic gesture”—it nevertheless adds momentum to a movement already underway.

Organic foods sales are growing exponentially, prompting some reflection and analysis here and abroad. An AP article says that U.S. sales have grown “15 to 21 percent each year,” and a piece in the British paper The Guardian reveals that U.K. sales grew a stunning 30 percent in 2005. I’m all for the popularization of organic foods, but there are certainly some downsides to this trend: factory-style “organic” farms and attempts to weaken certification standards, to name two.