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Phone-charging, wifi-providing, levitating bike is one of the coolest concept bicycles we’ve seen
It charges. It hovers. It has batteries. It's a bike. It's a miracle.
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Canadian tar-sands exec: ‘We do need Keystone’
Contrary to what the U.S. State Department says, the head of an oil-sands company insists that the industry needs the pipeline to help it expand.
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Watch this video and you will never need to waste an apple core again
All those times you ended an apple with a spitty, chewed-up core in your hand could have been avoided.
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Is Obama the ‘environmental president’?
Some folks are upset about Jonathan Chait's column in New York magazine arguing that Obama is making real progress on climate change. I think Chait mostly gets it right.
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This cellphone charger runs on water
Soon, you will be able to charge your cell with water. Oh, and this contraption that costs like 200 bucks.
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The Recycled Orchestra is heartwarming and also a little depressing, maybe?
The Recycled Orchestra teaches kids to play instruments made of trash. Which is awesome, even if some of the messaging makes us kind of uncomfortable.
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The Making of a New Midwestern Solar Energy Standard
Last week, a solar energy standard moved one step closer to passage in the Minnesota state legislature, with an innovative new approach to financing solar power. It’s a powerful first step for what would be one of the more robust policies to support distributed, local solar power in the country. The policy has three key […]
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Your lipstick probably has lead in it
Maybe you were born with unsafe levels of lead in your body. But maybe it's Maybelline.
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Hawaii could be hit by more hurricanes as climate changes
There may be fewer tropical cyclones in the Pacific in the future, but those that do form are expected to be stronger and more likely to strike Hawaii.
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Ask Umbra: How can I convince my alma mater to go fossil-free?
A reader wonders if he can help the college kids who are fighting for the climate. Umbra gives him the full freshman orientation.
