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Post-ecopocalypse survival tip: You can start a fire using water
If you live on the coasts, you could soon have more water than you know what to do with. Here's how to use it to cook your dwindling food supplies.
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Hamster held overnight after drunk driving arrest
A woman in Oregon got a DUI while she had a hamster in her lap. The hamster spent the night in protective custody.
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America the Possible: a book review
“Should we fail to act now on the climate front, the world will likely become so nasty and brutish that the possibility of rebirth, of achieving something new and beautiful, will simply vanish, and we will be left with nothing but the burden of climate chaos and societies’ endless responses to it.” America the […]
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Sting refuses to play at tree-killing concert venue
A mall/arena in the Philippines was going to kill 182 trees. So tree lover Sting said, OK, I'm not playing there.
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Meaty dialogues: Film tour prompts real talk on the future of food
Talk about perseverance. Although his film was released over a year ago, the director of "American Meat" is showing his documentary about farm alternatives to young people in 100 cities and towns this fall.
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Evolution or gentrification: Do urban farms lead to higher rents?
A veteran urban farmer in Detroit explores the relationship between the work he does and the city's move toward gentrification.
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The air in Italian cities has a lot of drugs in it
Not enough to get you high, but, you know, at least you're in Italy. Don't get greedy.
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Comparing Residential Solar Ownership to a Solar Lease
If you’re in one of the larger solar markets in the country (California, New Jersey, etc) then “going solar” doesn’t mean going it alone. You can likely get a “zero money down” lease or some similar financing tool to reduce the upfront cost. But is it worthwhile? The following analysis, done for a friend in […]
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Climate silence: It’s the right, stupid
There's a lot being written about the absence of climate change from the presidential race. Blame the conservative movement's Obama-era lurch away from sanity.
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New York is rehabilitating criminals using bees
Prisoners are being taught the basics of beekeeping. The idea being, one supposes, that after they get out of jail they will start selling honey instead of drugs.
