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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.
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Not all renewables are created equal
Some solar and wind projects have much heavier environmental impacts than others, and it's time to start talking about it.
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Why haven’t the big green groups divested from fossil fuels?
Activists are pushing colleges and cities to divest, but it turns out many major environmental groups still haven't dumped their own dirty energy stocks, Naomi Klein reports.
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In Sri Lanka, a tsunami-torn family still depends on the sea
In 2004, a tsunami killed eight members of this small fishing family. And yet today, they still fish because they have to do it to survive.
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Fracking ourselves to death in Pennsylvania
A new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
