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Who had the best one-liners at the Senate’s climate slumber party?
Thirty U.S. senators stayed up all night long on Monday to talk about climate change. Did your senators join in the fun?
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Abandoned boats get new life as gorgeous winery buildings
An architect couple used discarded boats at a nearby port to build a lovely upcycled wine production facility.
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Alpha coal executives get $2 million bonuses amid falling stock price and record Clean Water Act fines
Alpha Natural Resources, the third largest US coal company, had a rough few days in the stock market last week. First, it tumbled after news that the company would have to pay $200 million to stop illegally dumping toxic pollution into the waterways of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, as well as a […]
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Finally, someone wrote an opera about subsistence farming
“I thought, well, homesteading isn’t a typical subject that you see represented in opera,” the composer said. Um, true that.
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Photo crop: Iowa high schoolers explain where your food comes from
Lexicon of Sustainability trained some teens in its image-making techniques, and they went hog wild. Check out the results.
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Mass transit ridership grows from pathetically low to just low
Last year, Americans took more trips on mass transit than in any year since 1956 -- but our population has doubled since then, so the stat is not so impressive.
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Four new ozone-destroying gases found sneaking around the stratosphere
Three new CFCs and one new HCFC turned up when no one was looking, but scientists still don't know where these human-made ozone-eaters are coming from.
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Oreos were just the subject of international espionage
A former DuPont employee stole the recipe for a whitening chemical, almost giving China the secret to Oreo filling.
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Can a Novel City-Utility Partnership Green a Big City Grid?
In pursuit of a cleaner energy future last August, the city of Minneapolis came to the brink of putting a city-owned utility on the ballot. It was the culmination of a grassroots effort to get cleaner energy and local investment from the city’s energy utilities. It won’t be a city-owned utility on the agenda this […]
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Bogus, brah, climate change is stealing sick rides
Global warming will mean fewer big waves for Australia's Bondi Beach.
