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Your cheap watery beer now comes with less guilt
This MillerCoors facility in Colorado churns out 1,620 tons of waste every year -- and now 99.7 percent of it is recycled or reused.
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Here’s one smart way to fight big-box stores
Cape Cod is the rare community that considers regional economic impacts when weighing big-box retail proposals, and that makes all the difference.
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Ask Umbra: How can we move beyond oil?
A reader wonders how he can boost solar and wind power. Umbra plugs him in to the right sources.
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Share-brained idea: Adventures in car sharing, part 1
An unused car languishing in a driveway seems like the perfect way to join the sharing economy. What could go wrong?
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Obama’s Lincoln Moment?
“Those of us in positions of responsibility will need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of our children.” Barack Obama, June 29 national radio address I’ll admit it—I was moved several times as I watched and listened to President Barack Obama’s major […]
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Should the “Nobel prize for food” go to a Monsanto exec?
In a move that has disturbed many anti-hunger advocates, the World Food Prize has given this year’s award to three chemical company executives.
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Disabled duck gets new foot thanks to 3D printing
So far, from what we've seen, the greatest purpose of 3D printing is making spare parts for birds.
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House responds to Obama’s climate plan with an offshore drilling plan
On Friday, the House passed a bill that would open huge chunks of U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.
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Centuries worth of CO2 emissions could be stored underground, but at what cost?
America's geologic basins might be able to hold 500 years worth of emissions, but it would be really tricky and pricey to make it happen.
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It’s so hot in Arizona, you can bake cookies in a car
Hey, the hotter it gets, the more places you can bake cookies! Bring on global warming!
