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Should you become a demitarian? (Yeah, probably)
Relax, no one’s eating Demi Moore. Demitarianism means eating half the meat you usually do.
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Wine in cardboard bottles ain’t classy, but you might want to get used to it
Putting wine in bottle-shaped cardboard can cut fuel needs by 80 percent. But will it provoke Judge-y In-Law Side-Eye?!
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Crowdsourcing graffiti: Color+City matches empty walls with street artists
Sign up to donate a blank wall or claim a space as your canvas for 15 days, and make your town a little brighter.
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Top coal lobbyist compares coal plants to 90s car phones, refuses to say if coal contributes to climate change
The US coal industry has been struggling with its PR efforts in the face of some tough conditions: polls show that coal is Americans’ “least favored” energy source, scientists insist that most fossil fuels – especially coal – must stay underground, and broad majorities of Americans support carbon pollution limits on coal fired power plants. […]
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Supreme Court: One State’s Coal Pollution Not Allowed to Make Another State’s Families Sick
In a huge victory for public health, today the Supreme Court issued its opinion in a case considering the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution rule, which is designed to protect Americans from dangerous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. In a 6-2 decision, the court delivered a resounding victory for clean air and public health, affirming […]
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Factory farms get even grosser
As if CAFOs weren't disgusting enough already, now they're spraying manure out of sprinkler systems, and it's contaminating neighbors' homes.
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Duke Energy says it would be too hard to actually fix its coal-ash problem
The company whines that cleaning up all of its coal-ash ponds in North Carolina would take 30 years. Activists don't buy it.
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How farm to market-based solutions can take organic to the next level
Kellee James wants her company, Mercaris, to become the Bloomberg of organic crop prices.
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Las Vegas burning: Lessons in resilience from the nation’s driest big city
Thus begins a month(ish)-long series about Sin City, how it has survived in a brutal, unwelcoming climate, and what that says about our future.
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Urban farms won’t feed us, but they just might teach us
It's clear that the craze for the urban farm is no answer to feeding our teeming cities. Its value lies instead in how it can change us.
