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Colorado voters tell fracking industry to frack off

Residents of the Colorado cities of Boulder, Fort Collins, and Lafayette voted Tuesday to ban or suspend fracking.

John Upton Technology

“Our most paranoid friends were completely right”

Internet activism expert Ethan Zuckerman lays out what the Snowden/NSA revelations mean for organizers in the U.S. and abroad.

Heather Smith Technology

This ridiculous luxury bike costs more than your car

This $11,200 Hermès bike was designed for "people who really want to have an easy life." No kidding.

Holly Richmond Technology

China and the Soybean Challenge

Some 3,000 years ago, farmers in eastern China domesticated the soybean. In 1765, the first soybeans arrived in North America, but they did not soon catch on as a crop. For 150 years or so the soybean languished as a curiosity in gardens. Then in the late 1920s, a market for soybean oil began to […]

Lester Brown Uncategorized

Climate change is decreasing farm yields just when we need them to go up

We could avoid the worst case scenario if we made a lot of big changes to our food and farm systems. So far, we're not.

Nathanael Johnson Climate & Energy

EDF sells green cred to Walmart for the low, low price of $66 million

Environmental Defense Fund, a big cheerleader for Walmart's sustainability efforts, gets about an eighth of its budget from the Walton family, the same folks who control Walmart.

Stacy Mitchell Technology

De Blasio’s biggest challenge: Climate change

New York City's new mayor-elect didn't spend much time during the campaign talking about global warming, but he'll likely spend a lot of his time at City Hall dealing with it.

Ben Adler Cities

The big election winner: Deep-pocketed Tom Steyer

With a hefty injection of money from Steyer, enviros won two key contests on Tuesday: the governor's race in Virginia and a race in rural Washington that may determine the fate of a coal export terminal.

Lisa Hymas Technology

Washington GMO-labeling initiative flames out

Heavy spending by industry buries the state's grassroots-driven labeling law.

Nathanael Johnson Food

More corn grown in U.S. this year than ever before. Thanks, biofuels.

American farmers are set to harvest 30 percent more corn this year than last year. That's due to agreeable weather and EPA's biofuel mandate.