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Wyoming doesn’t want its kids to learn about climate change
It's the first state to reject new national science education standards. And it just so happens to be the biggest coal-producing state.
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This DIY solar backpack looks tricky but doable
If you don't have $200 lying around for a solar backpack, you can rig up your own with a bit of time, patience, and technological know-how.
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When your produce gets wasted, it’s really a cry for help
Reducing the astonishing amount of waste built into our food system will demand innovation, care, and maybe even higher prices.
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Apple announces big clean energy progress
The tech company claims that 94 percent of its corporate facilities are now powered by renewable energy.
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This app lets you narc on wasted energy
If energy waste angers you, new app LightsOut will help you channel your annoyance.
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It’s virtually certain that the IPCC needs to dump its “very likely” crap
Researchers have discovered, yet again, that few people understand what the heck the world's preeminent authority on climate change is trying to say.
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Apple will now recycle your old products and give you store credit
Forget smashing your old iBook Office Space–style. Just send it back to Apple, and if it isn’t ancient, you could get a gift card.
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Jon Stewart jokes with the EPA’s Gina McCarthy about Texas, burning trash, and his Hummer
Classic Jon Stewart: "All these regulations put the mom ‘n’ pop oil companies out of business!"
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For cleaner air, plant a tree in your belly button
Why hug a tree when you could rock it as navel jewelry? It could absorb a LOT of greenhouse gases, after all.
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Plastic Bag Bans Spreading in the United States
By Janet Larsen and Savina Venkova Los Angeles rang in the 2014 New Year with a ban on the distribution of plastic bags at the checkout counter of big retailers, making it the largest of the 132 cities and counties around the United States with anti-plastic bag legislation. And a movement that gained momentum in […]