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Canada bans researchers from discussing snowflakes, findings. Scientists protest
Rules bar government scientists from talking about their own work with journalists and even fellow researchers.
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Wasted food is a huge climate problem
If wasted food were a country, it would be the world's third largest contributor to climate change, after China and the U.S.
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Utility Agrees: (Their) Solar Should Supplant Natural Gas
Five months ago, one of the country’s ten largest electric utilities told regulators in Minnesota that it needed three new natural gas power plants to handle peak energy demand. This week, the same company’s Colorado division announced plans to use more solar power because it is cost competitive with gas. Maybe they need a memo […]
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Enjoy Goat Week with a live goat cam
We live every week like it's Goat Week. But this week is actually Goat Week.
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This abandoned city bus is also a super-swank tiny home
Don’t judge a bus by its cover
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Digging deep to uncover biocarbon’s advantages for farmers
Filed under: Northwest Biocarbon Initiative, NBI, biocarbon, carbon, home, agriculture Soaking carbon from the atmosphere into farm soils is a widely advocated climate solution. A new Australian study kicks dirt all over the idea. Carbon markets would not provide sufficient incentives for farmers to build soil carbon. But digging in a little deeper uncovers a […]
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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.
