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At the debate, listen for the climate silence
A new campaign aims to mobilize voters who want to see the presidential candidates take climate concerns seriously.
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Undecided voters not undecided about climate change
A Yale survey found that most swing voters know human-caused climate change is real and want the government to do something about it.
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Cities Getting Local Energy Choice with Aggregation
Over 200 Illinois towns helped cut their citizens’ electric bills in 2012, and some even achieved 100% renewable energy, thanks to a state law that lets cities choose their electricity provider. The law, called community choice aggregation, lets municipalities pick from competitive electricity suppliers for their residential and small business customers, but without having to […]
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Now you can get text messages from a cow’s vagina
It's getting harder to tell when dairy cows are in heat. But never fear, farmers! Now their genitals can text you.
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For you hipster entomologists, here’s a caterpillar that looks just like bacon
Supposedly this weird living bacon is actually a moth caterpillar. Made of bacon.
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Notorious Northern Virginia coal plant officially retires
On a scorching hot day last July, I stood on the deck of a boat on the Potomac River and introduced Michael R. Bloomberg, philanthropist and mayor of New York City, who was there to announce a game-changing gift to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. Behind us was the notorious, polluting Potomac River coal plant in […]
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McDonald’s video claims their beef is not really that bad
McDonald's makes a video to show people that their beef is as pure as the driven snow, and even includes a few lol questions from wary consumers.
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Tsunami of ‘chemical deodorant’ foam floods Chinese village
What would you think if you saw a giant wall of doom-bubbles advancing on you down the river? PANIC.
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NASA’s incredible nighttime video shows you Earth as you’ve never seen it
This nighttime flyover of Earth has a handy informative commentary so you know what you're looking at, which makes it that much cooler.
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This company is planning to mine asteroids, and you could be their intern
A company looking to mine precious metals from asteroids needs interns to help them out with lots of things, such how exactly the heck to do that.
