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Bike sharing goes global
More than 500 cities in 49 countries now boast bikeshares. It's the fastest-growing mode of transport in history.
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New Solar Farm Shows Clean Energy Can Be Compatible with Conservation Values
Today the Sierra Club welcomes the Antelope Valley Solar Projects in California, one of the largest planned solar projects in the U.S., as developer SunPower and owner MidAmerican Solar marked the start of major construction. The Sierra Club endorsed the project early on because it was planned and sited in a way that protected local […]
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San Francisco and 10 other cities move toward dumping stocks in fossil-fuel companies
A divestment campaign pushed by 350.org is spreading from colleges to cities. Boulder, Colo., Eugene, Ore., and Ithaca, N.Y. are also on board.
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This straw-bale urinal turns your pee into compost
Next time you find yourself drunk at a festival, instead of finding an isolated patch of grass to pee on, consider the public tower of straw that turns your pee into plant-friendly compost.
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Now you can track the inexorable progress of climate change on Twitter
The Keeling Curve is now on Twitter, mixing depressing information about carbon concentrations in with your usual diet of unsourced news and parody accounts.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s political group funds ads promoting Keystone and ANWR drilling
The group, founded by the Facebook boss and other tech titans to promote immigration reform, is financing ads that call for more oil exploration. What gives?
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Ben Affleck is going to eat like a poor person [Updated]
Ben Affleck is going to see what it's like to be poor.
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In Gasland sequel, fracking saga’s pressure ratchets up
Gasland Part II shows how much higher the stakes have grown in the battle over fracking since Josh Fox made its predecessor.
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The death of ‘sustainability’
Can destroying a tropical rainforest be “sustainable”? Well, according to a decision taken yesterday by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the major industry-NGO body, this greatest of environmental crimes is now officially “green.” Palm oil plantations have driven the destruction of more than 30,000 square miles of tropical forest in Indonesia and Malaysia […]
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Here are some capybaras hanging out in a hot tub
Capybaras do cute stuff. You watch.
