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The American diet, in 3 charts (plus Michelle Obama dancing)
In the U.S., we are eating twice as much sugar and fat, and half as many fruits and vegetables as recommended. Sounds like it's time to turnip.
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Why more roads = more traffic jams
Think a new carpool lane will relieve gridlock on L.A.'s infamous 405? Think again.
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Why Minneapolis’ beautiful bike freeways are totally the best
In the Twin Cities, old rail lines have become a sensible and delightful freeway system — just for cyclists.
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Car batteries may soon last 1,000 years thanks to pine and alfalfa
A group of Swedish researchers pulled a serious MacGyver earlier this month, combining pine resin and alfalfa seeds to create a hybrid recycled battery.
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Serious about saving the bees? Time to rethink agriculture
It's not as easy as banning pesticides and boosting honeybees. We need to make our farms function more like wild ecosystems.
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Lost Louisiana: The race to reclaim vanished land back from the sea
The world’s fastest submerging state is looking to nature in an ambitious plan to turn back the tide, and to BP to fund it -- but will it work?
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These itty bitty creatures fight global warming from the bottom of the sea
They may be microbes you've never heard of, but they sequester a non-trivial amount of methane.
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How one building is changing the world
Seattle's Bullitt Center is making waves far beyond its super-insulated, nontoxic, and FSC-certified walls.
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Why are utilities trying to disconnect communities of color from solar?
Big Energy sees net metering as a threat to its bottom line, but it could be a boon for underserved communities, and electric utilities, too.
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Should the feds bail out coal miners?
As we shift to a cleaner economy, what do we owe workers from the coal fields? What about workers from other dying industries?
