Archive: Apr 2012
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The best pro-solar billboard you’ve ever seen
This is going around Facebook today — it’s actually from 2010, made in response to a specific piece of legislation, but the message here is (pardon the pun) evergreen.
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Critical List: Earth Hour around the world; GM cuts funding to Heartland Institute
A look at the news of the day.
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Labor of love: Domestic fair trade grows
Just like Fair Trade for international farms, the Food Justice Certified label is rewarding farms with fair labor practices inside the U.S.
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Ask Umbra: When should an old refrigerator be replaced?
A reader is finding it hard to part with an aging fridge. Umbra says it’s time to give the appliance the cold shoulder.
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Green goo: Sustainable meat producers market their own ‘pink slime’
Food advocates have pushed back hard against the ammonia-doused fatty beef trimmings used by Big Ag as filler in meat products. But some local food producers are fighting fire with fire -- by making their own local, sustainable version of "pink slime."
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‘We lost’: Eco-warriors, green stars throw in towel
Gore, McKibben, Ruffalo, and other movement leaders abandon the field. Looks like we're on our own, people.