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How Vermont Has Promoted Local Renewable Energy: Episode 10 of Local Energy Rules Podcast

“A lot of the utilities don’t totally understand this new paradigm that’s coming.” David Blittersdorf of AllEarth Renewables has been working to advance renewable energy in Vermont for years, and was instrumental in getting the state’s standard offer program (a feed-in tariff) passed in 2009. He’s adamant that the state should accelerate its standard offer […]

John Farrell Uncategorized

Look don’t panic but apparently sometimes bananas are full of venomous baby spiders

We're not saying that if YOU buy a bunch of bananas at the store, they'll be full of dozens of poisonous spider babies. We're just saying that happened to this one lady.

Jess Zimmerman Food

Your plastic garbage is killing whales

Dead whales keep washing up with stomachs full of golf balls, latex gloves, rope, and plastic bags.

Holly Richmond Culture

Beer makes turkeys, like everything else, way better

One turkey farmer is feeding his birds beer to make them fat and delicious.

Holly Richmond Food

Ask Umbra: Is my shampoo poisoning the planet?

A reader wonders how to suds her tresses without making unseen ecological messes. Umbra delivers the clean truth.

Ask Umbra® Culture

Global warming finally reaches the last Arctic region

Yeah, no one gets to sit global warming out. New reports show that the last holdout region in northern Canada is rapidly succumbing.

Kathleen Rühland Climate & Energy

The War on Truth: Which side is Harvard on?

originally posted at Grip College students across the country are calling on their schools’ endowments to divest from fossil fuels. The campaign is taking off. But Harvard University President Drew Faust has rejected the idea, without responding to student requests for a public forum on the issue. In doing so, she turned her back on […]

KC Golden Uncategorized

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