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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.
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Dyin’ to live: Biggie Smalls and the silent killers in urban America
The Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down 17 years ago. But if he hadn’t taken a bullet, pollution and disease might have done the job instead.
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It takes HOW much water to make Greek yogurt?!
Dairy products require a whole lot of water -- and many of them come from drought-ridden California.
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Big Ben could get covered in solar panels
You can’t turn back the hands of time, but you CAN make them greener.
