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Ontario feed-in tariff prices drop, Germans pay much less
A version of this post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Ontario just completed a revision of their landmark feed-in tariff program and rates for renewable electricity generation and prices fell sharply: 30 percent for solar and 15 percent for wind power. This continues a trend of […]
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Co-operative farming from El Salvador to Kentucky [VIDEO]
Meet a farmer who's brought the co-operative farming method from his home in El Salvador to Louisville, Ky., where he coordinates a large urban farm.
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Friday music blogging: Alabama Shakes
No band in the last five years has gotten as much early hype as the Alabama Shakes. In fact, the hype was so thick that I put off listening to them for quite a while, unsure that the world needed another soul-rock-revival novelty band. But I finally got around to listening, and damn if they […]
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Cure and simple: How to make your own bacon and charcuterie
Want to learn how to preserve that local pasture-raised meat? These recipes for homemade bacon and green chile chicken sausages should get you hooked.
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R.I.P. Adam Yauch, musician and activist
Adam Yauch, aka MCA, was the co-founder and beating progressive heart of the Beastie Boys, who not only made some of the most defining music of the 1980s and ’90s but were among the first celebrities (at least in my memory) to go activist without sacrificing their cool. Yauch, who died today at the criminally […]
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Science alone can’t tell us how bad climate change will be
Predictions about the impacts of climate change involve politics as much as physics.
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Out, damned curse!
Grist.org must pay its bills. So why fret? We'll stop this once you fill our purse. Not yet!
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Finding your force multiplier
It means looking at existing resources and asking, “What more could we get out of what we already have or already spend?”
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Thinking of a master plan: Portland’s mayor on building prosperous cities
Portland, Ore., Mayor Sam Adams says that cities are ideally positioned to lead the way toward prosperity.
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Is the ‘obesity lobby’ winning?
A closer look at how lobbying from the processed food industry is reshaping kids' health -- literally.
