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We have only 40 years worth of helium left, and we’re wasting it on giant balloons?
We all know what Thanksgiving is about: good food, friends and family, feeling grateful for the blessings in our lives, and gigantic balloons of cartoon characters. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Celebrate Food Workers Week by being uncharacteristically nice at the grocery store
While you're rushing about buying cranberries and sweet potatoes, remember to thank the people who grow, pick, deliver, and prepare your food.
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Oil and gas workers fracked by on-the-job injuries
Vehicle accidents are the top danger to oil and gas workers, and as drilling increases, so do fatalities. But incidents often go unreported.
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‘Subway tampon’ could keep water out of tunnels
Here's an idea for keeping subway tunnels from overflowing with water: block their entrances.
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What if the only way to save endangered animals is to make them mutants?
Saving species exactly as they are isn't exactly natural, either.
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Kettles account for 4 percent of emissions in the U.K.
There is a better way: Bring back the kettle whistle.
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Preparing for “Cheaper than Grid” Solar Electricity
It started with off-grid locations, places where electricity was either carried in or generated on-site. Then it beat expensive diesel generators. In 2010, unsubsidized solar electricity could best on-grid retail electricity prices of major utilities in Hawaii. In the next decade, residents in metropolitan areas representing 100 million people will watch the biggest solar barrier […]
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Acting Before It Is Too Late
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. The tide in the affairs of men and women does not remain at flood—it ebbs. Over […]
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Climate scientists are Nate Silver, radio edition
Just as Republicans chose to ignore projections that Romney would lose, many Americans are choosing to ignore dire climate projections.
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A toilet theme park has opened in the Korean city of Suwon
It's World Toilet Day! (Seriously.) Here's where you should go to celebrate.
