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U.N. climate report: We must focus on “decarbonization,” and it won’t wreck the economy
A surprisingly hopeful story -- with tweets!
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Conventional farmers drop their plows in favor of conservation
A visit to one mainstream California farm that has stopped plowing turns up a surprising reason for the increasingly common change: It comes with a dollar sign.
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Montreal, Boston, NYC: Which city has the best bikeshare program?
What's it really like for a traveler trying to obtain temporary wheels in different cities? We've kicked some tires, and here's what we found.
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Enviro groups team up on new campaign funding alliance
The League of Conservation Voters and the Natural Resources Defense Council are collaborating to help get climate hawks elected. They're not in the same league as the Kochs, but it's a start.
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Busted ant farm or bikeshare? Watch Citi Bikers swarm NYC streets
This mesmerizing data visualization shows where, and when, NYC Citi Bikers ride.
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Top Five Earth Day Presents
What do you get Mother Earth on her big day (reminder: it’s April 22nd!)? She’s just so hard to shop for and, after all, she already has everything. She might appreciate one of those self-help books, although few moms want a gift that implies they are fat or “polluted”, but aren’t her kids the reason […]
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A Big Question for ‘Solar Choice’
Two weeks ago, Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission ratified the first-ever statewide policy for setting a fair and transparent price on solar energy. This week, a coalition of companies that provide leasing contracts for solar to home and business customers declared war on this “value of solar” policy, and pretty much every financial model for compensating […]
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If you were watching “Game of Thrones,” you missed Neil Tyson’s solution to global warming
This week's "Cosmos" explained how plants produce clean energy … and how our inferior energy technologies produce climate change.
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Donate to the Sharknado sequel and you’ll also be supporting shark conservation
If you donate enough money, you can help save a shark AND be in the movie!
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The four fossil fuel stockpiles that could toast the world
A Sierra Club report looks at what would happen if the U.S. burned through its biggest oil, gas, and coal reserves -- and it ain't pretty.
