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Meet the woman who shut down Chicago’s dirty coal plants
Kimberly Wasserman wins the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for organizing her neighbors in Southwest Chicago to fight the power plants giving them asthma.
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Soon enough farmers will just breed chicken with no bones
KFC is not optimistic about the future of chicken with bones in it.
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Amazing Chicago Coal, Clean Air Activist Wins Goldman Environmental Prize
Every year the Goldman Environmental Prize committee selects an amazing group of winners from around the world to receive what is sometimes called the environmental Nobel prize – and I could not be more thrilled with their pick for North America this year: Kim Wasserman Nieto of Chicago, Illinois. Kim is a phenomenal environmental justice […]
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From soybeans to solar – a community energy project sprouts from Wisconsin fields
Just north of Delavan, Wisconsin, is Dan Osborne’s nursery farm. Where you once found a bean field now sit 80 solar panels on 100 tracking towers, generating renewable power for over 125 homes. It’s a small, but successful community-owned energy harvest. The solar farm was developed by Convergence Energy of Lake Geneva, WI and has […]
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Fracking for uranium, first accidentally, and now on purpose
Fracking can release uranium from shale. Pennsylvania is poised to study the issue, and the uranium industry is poised to exploit it.
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This 3D map makes Tokyo’s subway system look like a crazy roller coaster ride
You needn't bring a barf bag, though. Although they're based in reality, those peaks and valleys don't exactly represent what it feels like to ride on the Tokyo subway.
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It’s bike share season!
Like daffodils, ramps, and skirts, bike shares emerge in the spring, a sign that the long winter is over and summer is coming soon.
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For the first time in history, a bear gets brain surgery
A bear at a sanctuary in Asia was the first ever to get brain surgery. Her prognosis is beary good.
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Ask Umbra: How green is my Barbie? And other burning questions
Can I recycle broken glass? Clean my glasses without being a polluter? Responsibly rid myself of an old TV? Umbra, as always, has the answers.
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Koch brother gives $100 million to Hurricane Sandy-stressed hospital
David Koch's donation is the largest in NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's history.
