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Meet America’s best tall-bike-riding cross-dressing nun
For years, Asheville, N.C., has had men dressed up as nuns roaming the streets on tall bikes while blasting loud music.
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Bills will make it easier for Californians to buy and sell solar power
Soon it will be simpler for renters, schools, and others to buy renewable energy, and for people with solar panels to sell their power onto the grid.
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A “No Deniers Rule” for Solutions Companies
Is it possible for environmentally conscious companies to operate in Washington, D.C., without selling their clean energy souls? Customers asked this question earlier this year when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lobby group FWD.us released ads supporting the dirty tar-sands oil pipeline, Keystone XL, and again this summer when news broke that Google hosted a fundraiser […]
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How to avoid letting Chipotle’s depressing new ad brainwash you
Reforming our food system will taste way better than a burrito bowl. I KNOW. But it's possible.
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Hawaii molasses spill less delicious, more disastrous than it sounds
The molasses is sucking the oxygen out of the water, suffocating fish, and then the decaying fish are making the situation worse.
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Golden apple or forbidden fruit? Following the money on GMOs
Surprise! When it comes to assessing who benefits the most from gene-splicing technology in food farming -- corporations? farmers? us? -- there's no consensus.
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Tar-sands oil could be coming soon to New England
But a small citizens group in Maine is pushing a ballot initiative that could undermine ExxonMobil and Enbridge's pipeline plan.
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Ask Umbra: Which carbon-offset programs are best?
A reader wants to atone for sins against the climate. Umbra helps her avoid a little fire and brimstone.
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How cities invent parking quotas, in 71 animated seconds
This short cartoon shows how cities make up parking requirements from junk science.
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Cut up your six-pack rings or seagulls will cut you
If you once accidentally discarded a set of six-pack rings and worried about strangling a turtle, you should be afraid for your own hide instead.
