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Green must diversify or die
Environmental groups and agencies need to get serious about hiring people of color, says a new group. If they don't, they will quickly become obsolete.
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Willie, Neil, we love you — but here’s who we really want to see play a green benefit
It’s hard to grab the attention of people outside the green choir with an encore of “After the Gold Rush” performed in a cornfield.
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Is it really OK to pour paint down the drain?
A reader wonders if it's really safe to wash his paint brushes in the sink. Umbra gives him the three-bucket challenge.
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Done shivering? Now try the rice bucket challenge
Now that everyone and their grandma has done the ALS Association's Ice Bucket Challenge, India takes it up a notch.
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Why Arizona is doing low-resource farming right
How this Arizona aquaponics farm is building a better food system.
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After Ferguson, what next?
The protests may be winding down for now, but if the history of activism tells us anything, it's that this is precisely when the longer-term changes start to unfold.
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Europe is burning our forests for “renewable” energy. Wait, what?
The European Union decided that burning wood to generate electricity was good for the climate. WRONG.
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There have been 5 — yes, 5! — monster hurricanes in the eastern Pacific this year
And we're only halfway through the season.
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Why Arkansas is doing CSAs right
How this Fayetteville organization is building a better food system.
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How can we stop the world from having too many babies? Feed more people
If we aim to slow the rocketing population graph, all the evidence points in the same direction: prosperity cuts the birth rate, which will spare the planet.
