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This powerful app brings organic farming into the Candy Crush age
The app is definitely more utilitarian than entertaining, but we'd rather have organic produce than crushed candy any day.
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Farmers and eaters: Why can’t we be friends?
Too often, city-dwelling organic shoppers and flyover-country farmers resent each other. But they're both really after the same things.
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Ask Umbra: Should I trade my big home in for a tiny house?
A reader wonders if a new tiny home would be greener than her old house. Umbra squeezes in an answer.
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Here’s why B.C.’s carbon tax is super popular — and effective
Just before the economic collapse in 2008, the Canadian province passed a tax on carbon emissions. Five years later, it's a case study in smart climate policy.
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Toto, our wind turbines are safe for another year!
Conservative lobbyists keep trying to kill Kansas' alternative energy mandate, and keep failing. On the plains, wind has support from both left and right.
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From single malt to sauvignon blanc: Scotland warms up to wine
That old specter of climate change strikes again, but this time it’s helping the Scots diversify their options for getting hammered.
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This new study shows that vegetarians have worse health. Should we care?
Let's develop some catchy shorthand for “people who eat plant-based, nutrient-rich diets,” and see if THOSE people are sick.
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Is this train the “little engine that could” for clean energy storage?
Repurposed trains go up and down hills, Slinky style, and in the process store surplus energy.
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Startling image shows how much trouble lions are really in
There were roughly 400,000 lions in Africa in 1950, but the population has shrunk by about 90 percent.
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BP’s newly upgraded refinery just spilled oil into Chicago’s water source
An oil spill from BP's Whiting refinery was just the latest in a string of similar accidents across the U.S.
