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Drop everything and watch this video of our gorgeous planet
This time-lapse from the International Space Station will stop you in your tracks.
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Tesla co-founder wants to reinvent the … garbage truck?
Ian Wright wants to electrify big autos -- and when cleaning up the streets, where better to start than with garbage trucks?
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California communities seize control of their energy futures
Here's the coolest thing happening in the electricity world right now: communities banding together and buying their own (cleaner) power, bypassing utilities.
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Here’s ONE geoengineering scheme that isn’t crazy
Sucking excess CO2 from the air could likely be our best hope for returning concentrations to pre-industrial levels. If it works.
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Meet the invasives: We’ve got crabs, but maybe they’re not so bad
It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week. But are they really scary invaders, or exciting new neighbors? The choice is yours.
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Micro-living isn’t just a Portlandia sketch — it’s my life
This fictional home has a bathtub and I don’t even have a bathroom sink, but I get it: Tiny living is not easy.
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We love this fake plan to turn Seattle’s fusterclucked tunnel into a park
Bertha is still stuck, but locals have a plan to upcycle the unfinished highway tunnel under downtown.
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No, Obama did not veto the Keystone XL pipeline
But from the misleading messages some green groups have been spreading on social media, you'd think he really did.
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How dirty media brought down Oregon’s clean-energy governor and his activist fiancée
John Kitzhaber and Cylvia Hayes were hounded out of the governor's mansion by a newspaper editorial board that didn't like their climate activism.
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Meet the invasives: Asian tiger mosquitos have feelings, too
This week is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. But are they really scary invaders, or exciting new neighbors? The choice is yours.
