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Comparing notes: New website lets student farmers connect, share resources
With the launch of Campus Farmers, students growing food at schools across the country have a way to support and encourage each other.
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Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day
If you're already thinking "eeeeeewwwwww," stop. Scrapple is a great, old-school example of nose-to-tail cooking.
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Climate science is Nate Silver and U.S. politics is Karl Rove
Republicans disregarded Nate Silver and other empiricists, and lost badly. Almost everyone is ignoring the empirical data of climate scientists -- and our losses could be catastrophic.
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Climate and Hurricane Sandy: What’s in a name?
Plumbing the storm's names and nicknames leads to some useful takeaways for communicating about climate change.
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Tree-sits: Transcendent protest glory or just bottles of pee?
Tree-sitting protests are becoming more common. They're not just about buckets of human excrement -- they can also be effective.
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Climate change made Sandy worse. Period.
One symptom of climate change -- rising sea levels -- made superstorm Sandy directly and unmistakably worse.
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Does Michigan’s clean-energy loss mean that greens are outgunned at the state level?
Michiganders voted down a requirement for 25 percent clean power by 2025. Blame a torrent of dirty-energy spending, which we'll be seeing more of in the future, says David Roberts.
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Meet the rubber chicken that makes people care about space
Rubber chickens have a reputation for being silly. Camilla, the rubber chicken mascot of NASA's Solar Dynamic's Lab, is anything but.
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This recycled-plastic bike rack would be great if it actually worked
The rack's made out of 15,000 juice pouches made by Honest Tea, which donated it to the store. Now, if only it worked.
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This weird cologne is supposed to smell like sushi
To be fair, it apparently has more of a grassy, rice-y, seaweed-y, gingery, lemon smell.
