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Will San Francisco’s water snobs drink from the gutter?
California's persistent drought has led San Francisco to take a second look at its long-neglected underground streams and springs.
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Naomi Klein on how to build a more kick-ass climate movement
Climate activists need to team up with the anti-austerity movement, labor, transit advocates, and all the other folks fighting the good fight.
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Can we green the hood without gentrifying it?
How gentrification dirties up environmental cleanups.
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Obama’s carbon rule hangs on this one legal question
The EPA's plan to reduce CO2 from existing power plants relies on an ambitious new interpretation of the Clean Air Act. Will it stand up in court?
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There’s a scary toxin in your beer can, and it isn’t alcohol
BPA is in beer cans -- even your local, small-batch, organic smoked stout.
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We need to talk about your old basement TV
By collecting old electronics instead of replacing them, we're making the energy efficiency of new devices kind of meaningless.
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That’s not a sheep, it’s a WiFi router! (It’s also a sheep.)
As farm animals help expand networks in rural areas, side effects could include decreased attention spans and ruminanty Facebook rants.
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This map shows the freakiest places to ride a bike in NYC
This is your brain. This is your brain wired up with electrodes and forced to pedal through New York's terrifying concrete jungle.
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What you should know about this week’s U.N. climate talks
There’s another climate confab happening right now in Geneva. Maybe you have some questions about it. Good, because we have some answers.
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Sea-level rise wins a Grammy even Kanye would approve of
Pulitzer-prize-winning composer John Luther Adams wrote an orchestral piece about ... sea-level rise. Here's what he thinks art can do for the environment.
