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This college turned its football field into an organic farm
Paul Quinn College's football field still has its goalposts -- they're just surrounded by kale and tomatoes.
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Check out Brooke Shields’ surreal Citi Bike costume
Nothing comes between Brooke and her Citi Bike.
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Southern survival: On the Gulf Coast, a community fights for its life
In the new documentary, "Come Hell or High Water," a community founded by free blacks after the Civil War takes on developers and a dominant culture that refuses to acknowledge it even exists.
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It’s Election Day, and the Koch brothers have more votes than you do
As polluting billionaires pour money into races and courts strike down campaign-finance rules, your vote counts for less.
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“Economic resistance” — a.k.a. divestment — is as American as apple pie
Divestment veteran Bob Massie lays out what climate-divestment protesters can learn from their apartheid-activist ancestors -- and the Tea Party (the original one).
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Five charts that explain the great energy shift
Or, the rise of fracking and the decline of coal.
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Why dengue and yellow fever could be coming to a city near you
Climate change is spreading two of the world's scariest diseases.
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Fall in love with Serge the French circus llama and his epic public transit adventure
Kids, don't get drunk and steal stuff. But if you do, make it a circus llama, and take it on a public transit tour of Bordeaux, France.
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Blistering exposé prompts Johns Hopkins to suspend black-lung screenings
Johns Hopkins University has long been paid by coal companies to screen former miners for black lung disease.
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On November 5th, Local Power is on the Line
In 2011, citizens of Boulder, CO, opted to explore alternatives to their monopoly, corporate electric utility that pumps coal-fired energy into town and sucks millions in energy profits out. They won at the ballot box despite being outspent more than 10-to-1. But tomorrow they have to win again against deep corporate pockets, or lose everything […]
