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Now you can plant your garden by firing a shotgun into the ground

Nothing says “contemplative Sunday afternoon” like walking around your backyard with a firearm.

Holly Richmond Culture

Maybe your 2014 New Year’s resolution should be eating vegan mayo

Apparently this stuff really IS better than mayo. Or so swears one Slate writer.

Holly Richmond Culture

Whole new crystal ball game: What does 2014 hold for rabble-rousers?

Divestment, protesters, arrests, Warsaw, Obama: 2013 was a tumultuous year for green activists. We predict next year will be even wilder.

Heather Smith Climate & Energy

Ask Umbra: Could you settle the debate over dishwashers vs. hand-washing?

A reader insists she can scrub circles around even a super efficient dishwasher. Umbra brushes up on the basics.

Ask Umbra® Culture

13 major clean energy breakthroughs of 2013

The rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility of clean energy is the true bright spot in the march toward a zero-carbon future.

Kiley Kroh & Jeff Spross Technology

Thanks to Congress, 2014 will bring uncertainty for the wind industry

The wind PTC has allowed the industry to grow and reduce costs, but now it is expiring. There hasn't been a big fight to extend it into next year. Why?

Ryan Koronowski Technology

Powder River Basin: Coal on the move

No other coal deposit on the planet is so big, so close to the surface, and so cheap to mine as the rich seams in eastern Wyoming and Southern Montana. That's made the Powder River Basin the locus of a national debate on how we develop our fossil fuel reserves.

Gary Braasch Climate & Energy

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