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Romney’s new farm platform is all about big business
Romney's latest white paper on agriculture and rural America says a lot about gutting taxes and regulation, but not so much about the farm bill, sustainable farming, or drought.
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Awesome art installation lets you control the weather
The "Rain Room," on display at the Barbican, is a torrential downpour you can walk through without getting wet.
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Sarah Palin is going to tell us how to eat like her
Sarah Palin is writing a diet book. It's about how her family eats lots of crap and manages to stay thin. We want one about how they are trashy and manage to stay famous.
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Try this at home: The joys of DIY laundry detergent
Cheer up and stop being such a borax! Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, is here to turn the tide on homemade laundry soap.
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‘Want to save the planet? Save people,’ says conservation bigwig
Peter Seligmann, CEO of Conservation International, one of the largest conservation groups on the planet, explains why he decided to dump biodiversity and focus instead on humans.
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Thoughts on economic growth and energy slaves
Increased access to energy seems responsible for much of the economic growth of the last two centuries. That raises an unsettling question about future growth.
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Animals are just as depressed as you are
Why are animals depressed when they can't have any idea that their lives suck? No one knows. They just are.
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Yet another reason birds are weird: They like to bathe in ants
For you, that might be a flashback to an acid trip. For birds, it’s … well, it almost definitely feels good.
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Farming the urban sea
In Long Island Sound, just outside New York City, new aquaculture projects promise to clean the water while raising low-input sustainable seafood in vertical underwater gardens.
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Is your jack-o’-lantern too interesting? Try these stencils from the Department of Energy
The Department of Energy has templates for a bumper crop of fun, hilarious jack-o'-lanterns: solar panels, wind turbines, and CFL bulbs.
