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Could ‘peer progressives’ turn the climate around?
In his new book, "Future Perfect," Steven Johnson finds inspiration in internet-style collaboration. But what about the planet?
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Teeny rescued Brooklyn owl is totally fine, everyone!
"Owl Jolson" has been nursed back to health and released into the wild.
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The Fierce Urgency of Now
“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now…. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ’Too late’.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The first public action of any kind, on any issue, after the November 6 election was on the issue of the climate; specifically, the Keystone […]
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World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Percent Since 2006
By J. Matthew Roney World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011. In 2011, following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 13 nuclear […]
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Massive Crowds Turning Out to Oppose Coal Exports
“It’s not our job in the Northwest to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying fossil fuel industry.” That’s what a former West Virginian, who now lives in Oregon, told federal officials this week at one of the many recent blockbuster public hearings on coal exports. Crowds have turned out by the thousands — literally overflowing […]
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This 15-year-old is fighting to keep flame-retardant chemical out of Gatorade
Sarah Kavanagh is 15, a vegetarian, and a resident of Hattiesburg, Miss. She also sometimes drinks Gatorade.
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Watch a baby hippo learn how to eat
Aw, look at her trying to figure out why hippo food pellets look so unappetizing!
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This 40-foot Christmas tree is made of 40,000 recycled plastic bottles
Kaunas, Lithuania killed two turtledoves with one stone: no trees had to die, and a lot of trash found a new life.
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Hot tip: It’s hard to mount a camera onto a shark
Brb, going to catch a shark, control it, and get in the water with it. No bigs.
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Now someone is trying to sell human-poop coffee
Joke? Not a joke? What avid, Portland-dwelling Grist List reader wants to respond to this ad and find out?
