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Two-in-one trash can removes your excuse not to recycle
The Solecan is two cans that snap together into one. You just have to move your recycling about an inch to the left, which you can probably handle even if you're really lazy.
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Three Unequal Choices for a Local (Renewable) Energy Future
Earth Day highlights the need for a sustainable energy future, and experience suggests that there are only three meaningful choices for communities trying to increase local control of a greener energy future. But the three policies – deregulation (“customer choice”), municipal aggregation (“city choice”), and municipal utilities (“city ownership”) – are not equal. Two recent […]
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Disabled squirrel named Winkelhimer learns to express herself through painting
Winkelhimer Smith, artist and squirrel, is dealing with the trauma of a cat attack through painting.
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On Earth Day, eight ways to eat with the planet in mind
Celebrate our planet with your fork -- and spoon and knife and chopsticks!
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Ask Umbra: Watts up with lightbulbs?
A reader wonders which type of lightbulb is greenest. Umbra sheds some light.
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Koch brothers want to buy L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, six other papers
Billionaire oil barons Charles and David Koch -- mega-funders of climate denial and right-wing causes -- are looking to get into the media business.
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A tale of two Earth Day heroes: Tim DeChristopher and Sandra Steingraber
Just as DeChristopher is being released from prison, where he served 18 months for disrupting an oil and gas auction, Steingraber is going to jail for protesting fracking.
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Coconuts, from nose to tail
Perennial Plate spent the day with a Sri Lankan family on their coconut plantation, where they showed all the humble coconut has to offer.
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Fracking drives potentially explosive demand for potentially explosive ammonia factories
You know that ammonia plant that blew up in Texas? The U.S. could soon be home to a lot more of those, thanks to low natural gas prices.
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Show us your Earth Day
This year, Earth Day annexes a whole weekend for reflection, fun, and simple acts of change. What will you do to celebrate?
