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Obama’s budget calls for billions to fight climate change
The president wants to increase spending on renewable energy and emissions reductions.
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Greens get behind striking oil workers
The Steelworkers union is worried about emissions, leaks, fires, and explosions at oil refineries, and is demanding safer working conditions.
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Solving climate change will be difficult but worth it
Aggressive climate mitigation is absolutely worth the costs, but economic models are not a good guide to how difficult it might be.
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Guess who’s coming to dinner? Body politics, lady butchers, and feminism
Render, a new food magazine based in Portland, wants to change the way you think about eating.
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2014 was the safest year to walk in NYC since 1910
Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to cut pedestrian deaths to zero begins to make a little headway, building off a long-term trend.
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5 most absurd Super Bowl commercials
These ads tell us What Americans Want Now -- and as we know, our spending habits are the biggest part of our climate impact.
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Tree simple tricks for making our cities cooler
By planting 30,000 trees, Melbourne, Australia, could lower its core temperature by 7 degrees. How cool is that?
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Urban planners may have finally found how to get to Sesame Street
With "equitable development," planners say they've finally figured out how to make sustainable, healthy neighborhoods accessible to everyone.
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We could have more volcano eruptions thanks to climate change
Climate change is making Iceland taller and more volcanic, a new study finds.
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Why free trade and government regulation should be BFFs
Forget about the trade-offs between free commerce and regulation. Poor farmers need government both to help build markets and to trim red tape.