Archive: Feb 2012
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No free rides: States consider taxing electric cars
Electric vehicles are making inroads, but since they don’t require gas, they don’t pay for the roads they ride on. Now states are talking seriously about taxing them, and that’s got some drivers all charged up.
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Time for an oil change: Americans strongly oppose fossil fuel subsidies
A Yale poll found that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to oil, coal, and gas subsidies.
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Swamp Thing yells at kids about littering
You gotta admit, Swamp Thing is basically the perfect anti-littering spokesman (especially now that Captain Planet has gone off the rails). I mean, he’s essentially made out of the environment. In this so-bad-it’s-awesome 1989 PSA, he lectures children about throwing plastic cups in the water.
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CAFO conviction: Court holds factory farm accountable for water pollution
A community nonprofit in Washington successfully sued a factory farm owner, resulting in the first-ever ruling holding a CAFO accountable for its pollution.
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You work 3.84 minutes per day to pay for your bicycle, 2 hours for your car
Americans work on average two hours out of every day to pay for their cars. A bicycle costs only 3.84 minutes.
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Sales of residential solar in Japan explode like reactor #4
Sales of solar panels for Japanese homes are up 30.7 percent in 2011, despite -- or, let's be real, because of -- the economic hit the country took in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
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How the Heartland Institute plans to wreck education
Leaked documents illuminate the Heartland Institute's denialist agenda, and who's footing the bill. The list of funders is interesting -- Kochs, Philip Morris, Microsoft -- but perhaps most sobering is their plan to undermine climate science in the classroom.
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Here is a shark swallowing another shark
Researchers from the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies took this picture of a shark eating another shark near the Great Barrier Reef. Nature is crazy!
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Pollan’s Food Rules, animated. With vegetables
This video uses vegetables -- so many, many awesome vegetables -- to illustrate Michael Pollan's Food Rules.
