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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 […]
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Turkey’s nutty green idea for heating its eco-city? Pistachios
The heat for Turkey's new eco-city has gotta come from somewhere, so why not from nature’s snack wrapper?
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Corn waste-based ethanol could be worse for the climate than gasoline
Cellulosic ethanol was supposed to be a climate savior, but a new study casts doubt on that assumption.
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Students Sit-In, Rally to Get Washington University to Cut Ties With Peabody Coal
If you’re looking for clean energy inspiration, we’ve had lots of it this past week, courtesy of a phenomenal group of Washington University (St. Louis) students who are holding a sit-in until the school cuts ties with Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company. For almost two weeks now, students have been holding a sit-in […]
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Street artist Swoon takes on rising sea levels and drowning communities
"Submerged Motherlands" addresses the loss of people's homelands due to rising sea levels. Swoon talks the new exhibit and artists' role in fighting climate change.
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The secret life of Rust Belt beekeepers
In Buffalo and Pittsburgh, urban beekeepers are taking sustainable food production into their own hands -- sometimes in secret.
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Numbers on the board: The Gulf Coast, four years after the BP disaster
BP says the coast is clear. Here are the numbers. You be the judge.
