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Google wants to bring you affordable solar panels (again)
The big G is teaming up with SunPower to buy solar panel systems, which the companies will lease to homeowners for cheap. Rad!
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Which is sadder, factory-farmed animals or the carnivores who eat them? The Onion weighs in
The Onion nails the grossness of being carnivorous in the language of a factory farming expose.
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Peep popular bike routes in this hella-detailed national map
One commenter snarked, “Nobody exercises in the Midwest.” But we’re betting that’s due to lack of bike infrastructure, not laziness.
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Mwahaha! Thief who stole electric bike calls owner for help recharging it
If your $4,200 electric bike gets stolen, this is pretty much the best outcome you could hope for.
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Are you a terrible gardener? This brilliant tool could change your life
The UrbMat makes gardening as easy as pushing a starter ball of parsley into its pre-marked slot.
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Life on a sheet of paper: Tiny house satire is spot-on
This Onion-worthy piece from The New Yorker is sheer genius.
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Can streetcars create shortcuts to better urban transit?
Desire lines: not the opposite of stretch marks, but close. They're where commuters and tourists want to go.
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Brazil’s World Cup gets a red card on the environment
Between razing the Amazon for a stadium and promising a mondo carbon footprint, Brazil's World Cup is shaping up to be a no gol for the environment.
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If oil spills in the Arctic and no one is around to clean it up, does it just stay there?
A new report is yet another reminder of why oil companies should be kept out of the thawing Arctic.
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Oregon tells rail companies to keep oil deliveries secret
A newspaper won the right to see reports about trains carrying crude. So state officials told rail companies to stop sending in the reports.