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Americans are driving less in nearly every state
Over the past eight years, the number of vehicle miles traveled has steadily decreased, a trend dominated by millennials' much lower driving rates.
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Pointed talk: Michael Pollan and Amy Harmon dissect a GM controversy
When one journalist tweets that another's piece contains "too many industry talking points," it takes a lot more than 140 characters to sort out the rights and wrongs.
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I have a great world dream
Filed under: federal, Climate Change, home When I visit Washington, DC my favorite place to hang out is the Lincoln Memorial. With the great statue of Lincoln overlooking the mall, his great words inscribed into the walls on either side, it is one of the capital’s most inspiring places. Great words have been spoken there […]
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Here’s an astonishingly simple trick that could keep you from killing a cyclist
Change which hand you use to open the car door.
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Over a million cockroaches escape from cockroach farm
Why would anyone want more than a million cockroaches?
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Carbon targets, carbon taxes, and the search for Archimedes’ lever
There's no perfect solution to the climate problem, no one policy that will move the world. It's going to be a long, ugly slog. It's healthier just to accept that.
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9 scary facts about the Yosemite fire
Just another wildfire? Nope. This one's different. Here's why.
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Syngenta to take a continent to court to upend pesticide ban
Syngenta is suing the European Commission to let it continue selling neonic insecticides that kill pollinating bees.
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Marching on DC for Voting Rights, Racial Justice and Climate Action
On April 4, 1967, exactly a year before he was killed, Dr. King named ‘materialism’ as one of the deadly triplets afflicting America: ‘When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.’ “At that point, he […]
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Non-panel costs make a bigger difference as solar energy gets cheap
Last week’s graphic on the impact of local permitting on the cost of solar power was a big hit, so here’s a follow-up on “soft costs,” the expenses in a solar installation (including permitting) that are not the solar module. The chart compares the soft costs in the U.S. to Germany (thanks to LBNL’s analysis), […]