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Seattle’s smart plan to remake its streets
The key: Making room for bikes, buses, and other mass transit, and no new concessions for cars.
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Al Gore inspired an opera on climate change
The crazy dial gets turned way, way up.
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This terrifying new tool tells you how slutty you are
HINT: It's probably less than your parents.
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Buying organic costs too much. That’s a good thing
Organic food could be cheaper, according to a new study, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth every dollar.
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Is spider silk the fabric of the future?
Bolt Threads wants to make spider silk clothing using genetically engineered yeast.
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Watch New York’s sewer rats discuss climate change
If the rats shall inherit the earth when humans are gone ... how do they feel about climate change?
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You’re obsessing about the wrong home energy uses
Scholars are trying to figure out why we're so misinformed about the differing footprints of household appliances -- and how we might do better.
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Ikea is putting more than a billion bucks into the climate fight
More than half of the money will go toward wind and solar power, and the rest will help poor countries adapt to climate change.
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Fracking could pollute drinking water, EPA says
But there's not much evidence that it has so far -- in part because oil and gas companies won't share their data.