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Green roofs don’t work unless you plant them with diverse, local plants
Planting your green roof with sedum is like hiring employees based on how long they can physically sit in an office chair instead of how good they are at doing the work.
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Holland is better than we are at everything, and they’re being smug about it, and we still want to go
OK, Holland, we get it! You have all the nice things!
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Undead farm bill: Everyone’s favorite legislative zombie shuffles on
Congress bakes up a ginormous gift to corporate ag, which may well collapse and die. But don’t start celebrating yet.
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America’s first climate refugees: Can a baked Alaska deny climate change?
From Palin to Parnell, Alaska's politicians have struggled to reconcile policy with actuality.
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What the frack do we know? Not much, it turns out
A new report in the journal Science discovers there are a lot of things about fracking we don’t know. But since we've fracked half the country anyway, we're going to find out.
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Ag-gag bill chokes in Tennessee
Tennessee's Republican governor vetoed a bill that would have made it harder for animal activists to expose abuses by agricultural workers.
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Heady Colo. farmers plowing ahead with hemp farming
One Colorado farmer has planted the nation's first big industrial hemp crop in 60 years. Yes, it's still illegal.
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As climate change broils the Arctic, John Kerry apologizes
At Arctic Council meetings in Sweden, the secretary of state wants the world to know the U.S. is very sorry for all that it has done to destroy the ice.
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Deadly storms in Texas produce grapefruit-sized hail
As if deadly tornadoes weren't enough, Texas storms produced hailstones that have to be seen to be believed.
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Volunteers picked up 10 million pounds of beach trash last year, including 2,117,931 cigarette butts
That's the weight of 5,000 cars. It’s heavier than the Capitol dome.
