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Lunch money: Can schoolkids really eat local without breaking the bank?
High-quality local ingredients can spruce up cafeteria offerings, but they require some careful bargaining and accounting, too.
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Oil is spilling from trains, pipelines … and now barges
River barges are increasingly being used to transport crude. The recent spill into the Mississippi River shows why that's not such a great idea.
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This new whistleblowing site wants to be the WikiLeaks of poaching
Yes, it's time to narc on your friend who keeps a slow loris in her purse.
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Ocean bottomliner: Why Mike Bloomberg is investing in fish
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg dropped $53 million in the bucket toward solving our ever-increasing ocean woes.
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This nifty box can (illegally) turbo-charge your bikeshare cycle
Two hours of charge will get you 12 miles of riding.
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Florida judge rules it’s illegal to unhook from the city’s water system
A Florida official decided Robin Speronis was doing something too strange to tolerate: She was trying to live off the grid.
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Watch the Arctic’s oldest ice melt away
The Arctic's "old ice" -- ice that had been around for at least four years -- used to make up about a quarter of all the ice in the Arctic sea.
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It takes how much water to grow an almond?!
Why California's drought is a disaster for your favorite fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
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New Poll, Rally Show WV, NC and Beyond are Fed Up With Coal Industry’s Pollution
West Virginians hold the coal industry responsible for air and water contamination in the state, and they are tired of the stranglehold they believe the industry’s lobbyists have on state politics. That’s just one of many powerful findings of a new poll out today about the aftermath of the January coal chemical spill in Charleston, […]
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Vanilla Ice became an Amish farmer when no one was paying attention
Vanilla Ice helped raise a barn and birth a baby calf, Baby Ice. If that's not the cutest thing ever, well ...
